Vocabulary list 3

List 3

• Accolade: any award, honor, or laudatory notice: The play received accolades from the press.
• Acerbity: harshness or severity, as of temper or expression: It's a strange experience to read a critic best known for extreme acerbity writing about a subject he loves.
• Attrition: a wearing down or weakening of resistance, especially as a result of continuous pressure or harassment: The enemy surrounded the town and conducted a war of attrition.
• Bromide: a platitude or trite saying; a person who is platitudinous and boring: We continually hear that education is the bromide that will solve everything.
• Chauvinist: a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory; a person who believes one gender is superior to the other, as a male chauvinist  or a female chauvinist: Then man was brazenly chauvinistic in his comments on the lady’s strength.
• Chronic: continuing a long time or recurring frequently: a chronic state of civil war.
• Expound: to set forth or state in detail; to explain; interpret: The man expounded knowledge in a very pedantic, hauteur manner.
• Factionalism: of a faction  or factions: Factional interests had obstructed justice.
• Immaculate: free from fault or flaw; free from errors; spotless, clean: The dress was immaculate.
• Imprecation: the act of imprecating; cursing: They boy avoided the imprecation that was his teacher’s long lectures, rants.
• Ineluctable: incapable of being evaded; inescapable: The man had an ineluctable fate.
• Mercurial: changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic: The man was mercurial in his activities.
• Palliate: to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate: Applying pressure to an open wound palliates the pain.
• Protocol: the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette; It was protocol to clock in everyday before beginning work.
• Resplendent: shining brilliantly; gleaming; splendid: The troops were resplendent in their white uniforms.
• Stigmatize: to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crimes of the father stigmatized the whole family.
• Sub rosa: confidentially; secretly; privately: The man sent his message in sub rosa fashion.
• Vainglory: excessive elation or pride over one's own achievements, abilities, etc.; boastful vanity: The man’s vainglory was unparallel.
•  Vestige: a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence: A few columns were the last vestiges of a Greek temple.
• Volition: the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.