Accolade: any award, honor, or laudatory
notice: The play receivedaccolades from the press.
- I received an accolade for achieving good grades and playing on the varsity tennis team for four years.
Acerbity: sourness, with roughness or astringency of taste.
-I tasted the lemonade and it had acerbity because there was not enough sugar and water added.
attrition: a reduction or decrease in numbers, size, or strength: Ourclub has had a high rate of attrition because so many membershave moved away.
- We had to make an attrition to the people invited to the party because we did not order enough food and drinks for everyone.
Bromide: a person who is platitudinous and boring.
-My father is bromide when he is around people he does not know.
chauvinist : a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especiallyone devoted to military glory.
- My friends grandfather was chauvinist and had many artifacts in his house that reminded him of the military and all of their glory.
Chronic: constant; habitual; inveterate
- It is chronic in my english and government class to respond to a journal topic in the beginning of the period.
expound: to set forth or state in detail
- We had to expound the truth because she did not see herself that she was doing the wrong thing.
factionalism: of a faction or factions.
- The class was big on factionalism and communicating and collaborating with others.
immaculate: free from fault or flaw; free from errors
- She wanted to be emaculated after all of the drama that she went through.
imprecation: the act of imprecating; cursing.
-We were forbidden from imprecation since we were near all of the little children.
ineluctable: incapable of being evaded; inescapable
- The big castle in the middle of the island was ineluctable.
mercurial: animated; lively; sprightly; quick-witted.
- The way she acted was mercurial and everyone around her would always laugh.
palliate: to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate.
- After hurting myself during the match, the pain palliated when putting a bag of ice on the injury.
protocol: the customs and regulations dealing with diplomaticformality, precedence, and etiquette.
-When entering a new place you must be aware of the protocol.
resplendent: shining brilliantly; gleaming; splendid
-The meteor shower was absolutely resplendent.
stigmatize: to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon
-After betraying the team, the man was stigmatized in several ways.
sub rosa: confidentially; secretly; privately.
- The subject we had discussed was sub rosa and no one could know.
vainglory: excessive elation or pride
-Beowulf was overflowing with vainglory throughout his whole quest.
vestige: a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is nolonger present or in existence
-The new flower pot was a vestige of the old flower pot we had kept for over ten years.
volition: the act of willing, choosing, or resolving
-We had the will to volition all of our problems before taking the calculus test.
