- Accolade: any award, honor, or privilege granted as an acknowledgement of merit.
- Acerbity: sourness, a sharp bitterness
- attrition: a reduction or decrease in numbers, size, or strength; a wearing down or weakening of resistance, especially as a result of continuous pressure or harassment:.
- Bromide: a person who is boring.
- chauvinist :a person displaying aggressive or exaggerated patriotism.
- Chronic: habitual, (of an illness) Persisting for a long time or constantly recurring.
- expound: to explain in detail or the meaning of
- factionalism: The splitting of a group into factions; Conflict between factions
- immaculate: free from flaws or mistakes; clean
- Imprecation: a spoken cure; cursing.
- ineluctable: Unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable
- mercurial: changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic; animated; lively; sprightly; quick-witted.
- palliate: to relieve or lessen without curing or removing the cause; mitigate; alleviate.
- protocol: the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
- resplendent: shining brilliantly; gleaming; splendid: attractive/impressive through being coloful
- stigmatize: to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon:
- sub rosa: happening or done in secret; confidentially; privately.
- vainglory: excessive elation, vanity or pride
- vestige: a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence; smallest amount.
- volition:the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; using one’s will
Monday, August 27, 2012
Vocabulary: Fall List #3
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