Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Vocab list 8/28-8/31

1.Accolade: any award, honor, or laudatory notice:
2.Acerbity: harshness or severity, as of temper or expression:
3.Attrition: a wearing down or weakening of resistance, especially as a result of continuous pressure or harassment:
4.Bromide: a platitude or trite saying; a person who is platitudinous and boring:
5.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:
6.Chronic: continuing a long time or recurring frequently:
7.Expound: to set forth or state in detail; to explain;
8.Factionalism: of a faction  or factions:
9.Immaculate: free from fault or flaw; free from errors; spotless, clean:
10.Imprecation: the act of imprecating; cursing:
11.Ineluctable: incapable of being evaded; inescapable:
12.Mercurial: changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic:
13.Palliate: to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate:
14.Protocol: the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette;
15.Resplendent: shining brilliantly; gleaming; splendid: T
16.Stigmatize: to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon:
17.Sub-Rosa: confidentially; secretly; privately:
18.Vainglory: excessive elation or pride over one's own achievements, abilities, etc.; boastful vanity:
 19.Vestige: a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence
20.Volition: the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing:

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