Monday, January 27, 2014

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  

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