Vocabulary: Spring List 4

1. Accolade: an award or privilege granted as a special honor or as an acknowledgement of merit.
2. Acerbity: Sharp and forthright
3. Attrition: The action or process of gradually reducing the strength or effectiveness of someone or something through sustained attack or pressure.
4. Bromide: A trite and unoriginal idea or remark typically intended to soothe or placate.
5. Chauvinist: A person displaying aggressive or exaggerated patriotism.
6. Chronic: Persisting for a long time or constantly recurring.
7. Expound: Present and explain (a theory or idea) systematically and in detail.
8. Factionalism: The splitting of a group into factions; conflict between factors.
9. Immaculate: Of a person or their clothes perfectly clean, neat, or tidy.
10. Imprecation: A spoken curse.
11. Ineluctable: Unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable.
12. Mercurial: Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind.
13. Palliate: Make less severe or unpleasant without removing the cause.
14. Protocol: The official procedure or system of rules governing affairs of state or diplomatic occasions.
15. Resplendent: Attractive and impressive through being richly colorful or sumptuous.
16. Stigmatize: Describe or regard as worthy of disgrace or great disapproval.
17. Sub Rosa: Happening or done in secret.
18. Vainglory: Inordinate pride in oneself or ones achievements; excessive vanity.
19. Vestige: A trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exists.
20. Volition: The faculty or power of using one's will.