Vocab #3

1) Accolade-An award or privilege granted as a special honor or as an acknowledgment of merit.
For his outstanding achievement, he received the accolade.
2) Acerbity- sourness, with roughness or astringency of taste.
These sweet persimmons have acerbity.   
3) Attribution- a reduction or decrease in numbers, size, or strength
This does, however, pose problems of attribution.
4) Bromide- A platitude or trite saying
It is always boring to listen to bromide speech from teachers.
5) Chauvinist- a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
Danny is also a male chauvinist, he thinks women are too weak to do anything.
6) Chronic- constant; habitual; inveterate
Chronic stress can lead to heart disease.
7) Expound- to explain; interpret.
He expounded his opinion to his classmates.
8) Factionalism- The splitting of a group into factions; Conflict between factions.
Factionalism exists in any political party.
9) Immacualte- free from spot or stain; moral blemish or importy; fault or flaw; errors.
His soul is very immaculate, he never lied during his life.
10) Imprecation- a curse; malediction
Do not use imprecation during school.
11) Ineluctable- enescapable.
Using saw without safety glove is ineluctably dangerous.
12) Mercurial- changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty
Joey’s mercurial temperament made her difficult to live with.
13) Palliate- to relieve or lessen without curing.
Even though cancer is incurable, it can be palliated.
*14) protocol- the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
15) Resplendent- shining brilliantly; gleaming, splended
My resplendent backpack got really old and dirty after I went on a hike with it.
16) Stigmatize- to work with a stigma, or brand.
Her response canfairly be stigmatized as a "lie"
17) Sub Rosa- confidentially; secretly; privately.
If someone is doing somthing sub Rosa, don't bother asking what they are doing.. hahaha
18) Vainglory- excessive elation or pride over one's own achievements, abilities...
Becareful, vainglory might make you forget your first intention.
19) Vestige- a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence

There was not a vestige left from his memory.

20) volition- the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing

Did you do it of your own volition ?