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Monday, September 9, 2013

Vocabulary #4

1) Accolade- (n) any award, honor, or laudatory notice
- She received an accolade when she won the spelling bee.

2) Acerbity- (n) sourness; harshness or severity as of temper or expression
- He was full of acerbity because he harshly corrected the student.

3) Attrition- (n) a reduction or decrease in number, size, it strength 
- Many jobs were lost through attrition.

4) Bromide- (n) a person who is platitudinous and boring; a trite saying
- Mary was a bromide as she never did anything exciting.

5) Chauvinist- (n) a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic; a person who believe one gender is superior to another
- He was a male chauvinist as he believed the male team would beat the female team.

6) Chronic- (adj) constant; habitual; inveterate; having long had a disease 
- She suffers from a chronic disease that she has had all her life.

7) Expound- (v) to explain; to interpret
- The teacher expounded the lesson again since the students didn't understand it. 

8) Factionalism- (adj) of a faction or factions; self-interested
- There has been great factionalism between the two people as they weren't interested in what the other had to say since it had nothing to do with themselves. 

9) Immaculate- (adj) free from spot or stain; free from moral blemish; pure; free from fault
- The immaculate essay was the perfect example as it had no flaws.

10) Imprecation- (n) the act of imprecations; cursing
- He started an unending imprecation when he stubbed his toe in the chair.

11) Ineluctable- (adj) incapable of being evaded; inescapable 
- The prison was so well guarded that it made the prisoners ineluctable

12) Mercurial- (adj) changeable; animated; lively
- She came in class with a mercurial attitude as she was always so bubbly.  

13) Palliate- (v) to relieve or lessen without curing; alleviate; to try and conceal the gravity if excuses, apologies 
- The physical therapist tried to palliate the athletes sprained ankle.

14) Protocol- (n) a supplementary international agreement; the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality 
- The two states tried to come to a protocol without causing any violence.

15) Resplendent- (adj) shining brilliantly; gleaming; splendid
- The sign was resplendent and everyone within miles could see it.

16) Stigmatize- (v) to set some mark of disgrace; to mark with a stigma or brand.
- The crime of the mother stigmatized the whole family. 

17) Sub Rosa- (n) confidentially; secretly; privately
- The meeting was held sub rosa due to the fact that nobody could know what they were talking about.

18) Vainglory- (n) excessive elation or pride over one's own achievements, abilities; boastful vanity
- He showed a lot if vainglory by bragging about his trophy. 

19) Vestige- (n) a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that us no longer present or in existence
- The fossils are the only vestige of dinosaurs. 

20) Volition- (n) the act of willing, or choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing; a choice of decision made by the will
- Everyone who wants to participate should do so by their own volition

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