Spring Vocab #4

DEFINITIONS

• Accolade-an award, honor, or laudatory notice
• Acerbity-sourness, with roughness of taste; harshness/severity
• Attrition-a reduction or decrease in numbers, size, or strength
• Bromide-a person who is boring
• Chauvinist-a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory
• Chronic-constant; habitual 
• Expound-to explain; interpret
• Factionalism-self-interested; partisan
• Immaculate-free from moral blemish or impurity; pure; undefiled
• Imprecation-a curse; malediction
• Ineluctable-incapable of being invaded; inescapable 
• Mercurial-changeable; volatile
• Palliate-to relive or lessen without curing; alleviate
• Protocol-the customs and regulations dealing with formality; etiquette
• Resplendent-shining brilliantly; gleaming
• Stigmatize-to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon
• Sub Rosa-confidentiality; secretly; privately
• Vainglory-excessive elation or pride over one's own achievements; boastful vanity
• Vestige-a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence     
• Volition-a choice or decision made by will