Vocabulary #4

accolade - award, honor
* Renaissance night is a night to accolade students for there outstanding effort throughout the semester.
acerbity- bitterness
* It was hard to apologize as she gave off a acerbity mood towards the apology.
attrition- reduce/ decrease in size, strength or numbers
* As volunteers signed up to help, we had an attrition in numbers; leaving us with only five volunteers at the end of summer.
bromide- comment intended to sooth someone
* He made a bromide comment directed to his friend to cheer him up about the incident.
chauvinist- patriotic, devoted to military
* Our vets are the most chauvinist people we know.
chronic- constant
* Her absence became chronic as she continued to procrastinate in school work.
expound- detailed
* Spark notes did a horrible job of expounding the story .
factionalism- facts
* The book was filled of factionist pictures.
immaculate- spotlessly clean
* Her mother commanded for a immaculate restroom and bedroom.
imprecation- cursing
* The old mans imprecation scared the children who rang on the doorbell.
ineluctable- incapable of being evaded
* It was ineluctable to approach the dog's new born pups.
mercurial- changeable
* Her dirty car seat was unmercurial, the new owner commanded for a decrease in the price she intended to sell the car for.
palliate- comment in relieve without cursing
* The old mans wife commented in palliate, overruling her grumpy husband.
protocol- main/ official procedure
* The substitute changed the protocol of the classroom.
resplendent- shining brilliantly
* Her resplendent present caused students around her to fear class involvement.
stigmatize- to set some mark of disgrace
* Her sister's actions set a stigmatized attitude.
sub rosa- confidentially, secretly, privately
* Her diary was sub rosa get away from reality, she felt violated when the boys took it and read it.
vainglory- excessive pride in someone's achievements
* Her mother constantly vainly glorided her children's achievements.
vestige- a mark or trace of evidence of something that once existed
* Scientists have vestige evidence that dinosaurs once existed.
volition- the act of willing, willing, choosing
* The family walked out of the family discussion volitionally.