Vocabulary #4

Accolade: (Noun) Any award, honor, or laudatory notice

The brave warriors received an accolade for their heroic feats.
acerbity: (Noun) Sourness, with roughness or astringency of taste

Acids are can sometimes be tested by it’s acerbity.
attrition: (Noun) A reduction or decrease in numbers, size, or strength

Ever since freshman year, Special Olympics club has done the opposite of attrition and gained at least 100% more members.
bromide: (Noun) A person who is platitudinous and boring.

I love hanging out with my friend but sometimes she can be such a bromide.
chauvinist: (Noun) A person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.

My friend Austin loves to act like a chauvinist because he just lives ‘Merica.
chronic: (Adjective) Constant; habitual; inveterate

I always will have this chronic love for traveling the world no matter what.
expound:  (Verb) To set forth or state in detail.

Mr. Nesper is really good at expounding topics about economics.
factionalism: (Noun) self-interested; partisan

Factionalism is prominent in many groups.
immaculate: (Adjective) Free from spot or stain; spotlessly clean

Museums have to follow protocols to keep their statues very immaculate.
imprecation: (Noun) A curse; malediction

Witches are known to put imprecations on everything they see.
ineluctable: (Adjective) Incapable of being evaded, inescapable.

In this world there are two types of girls: the girls who know how to have a boyfriend and the girls who make their boyfriends go insane because they have ineluctable way of treating their boyfriends.
mercurial: (adjective) Changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic

At leadership camps, you meet a lot of mercurial people who are just filled with a lot of energy.
palliate: (Verb) to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate, alleviate

I love going to the chiropractor because they palliate the pain in my back.
protocol: (Noun) The customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality’ precedence and etiquette.

Many countries have certain protocols when it’s comes to dealing with war.
resplendent: (adjective) shining brilliantly; gleaming; splendid.

The trophy sat in the principals office as a resplendent monumental moment for the school.
stigmatize: (Verb) To set some mark of disgrace of infamy upon.

The main character in The Scarlet Letter is stigmatized because of her actions of adultery.
sub rosa: (Noun) confidentially; secretly; privately

Much of what the government says is sub rosa to the general public.
vainglory: (Noun) Excessive elation or pride over one’s own achievements, abilities, etc;

Beowulf acts in a way that he lets his vainglory ruin his personality.
vestige: (Noun) A mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence.

He left a vestige on my life, something that no one has ever accomplished before.
volition: (Noun) The act of willing, choosing, or resolving.

Most of the times I like to own up to my mistakes because I feel like being able to live a life of volition will get you places.