Vocabulary #3

1. accolade: any award, honor, or notice
"After winning the games, the girl was accoladed with showers of gifts."

2. acerbity: harshness or sourness with roughness
"His acerbity tone makes him not worth haning out with."

3. attrition: a decrease in numbers, size, or strength
"The attrition of the population frightened the mayor of the town for he didn't know why everyone was leaving."

4. bromide: a salt of hydrobromic acid or a compound containing bromine
"Potassium bromide is the chemical compound of potassium and bromine."

5. chauvinist: a person who is blindly and agressively patriotic; a person who believes one gender is superior to the other
"Soldiers can sometimes become chauvinists after being in war for so long."

6. chronic: constant or habitual
"My chronic back pain is so annoying and very painful."

7. expound: to state in detail or explain
"The professor expounded the lesson more clearly after the student told him they weren't understanding it."

8. factionalism: self-interested
"I'd say my sister practices factionalism on a daily basis."

9. immaculate: free from flaws, strain, or impurities
"The immaculate hero became the face of the kingdom for centuries."

10. imprecation: an act of cursing
"I make several imprecations every day when I get angry at something."

11. ineluctable: incapable of escaping
"The ineluctable trap was feared by all the animals in the woods for they knew they would never escape."

12. mercurial: changeable; eractic; animated; lively
"Cartoons are always easy entertainment for kids because they are so mercurial."

13. palliate: to relieve or lessen without cury; to conceal the gravity of an offense by using excuses
"The boy tried to palliate his reason for disobeying his parents' orders after they confronted him about what he had done."

14. protocol: the customs or regulaitons dealing with diplomatic formality or etiquette
"The CIA's protocol is very strict for a lot of people are not able to work for it."

15. resplendent: gleaming; shinging brilliantly
"The diamond was so resplendent the man had to buy it for his wife."

16. stigmatize: to mark with a stigma or brand; to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon
"The troubled boy stigmatized the family's reputation."

17. sub rosa: secretly; privately; confidently
"To get away with robbery, you have to have a sub rosa approach to the theft attempt."

18. vainglory: excessive pride over one's own achievements
"The boy couldn't get over his own vainglory after scoring the winning touchdown at the championship game."

19. vestige: a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence
"The fossils were the last vestiges of dinosaur life."

20. volition: an act of willing, choosing, or resolving
"Did you get there through your own volition  or did someone else choose your path for you?"