Vocabulary #3

Definitions:

• Accolade - a mark of accomplishment, an award, an expression of praise
• Acerbity - being acid in temper, mood, or tone
• Attrition - reduction or decrease in numbers or size
• Bromide - a commonplace or tiresome statement
• Chauvinist - a person who is showing aggressive patriotism or an attitude of superiority
• Chronic - marked by a long duration or frequent recurrence; always present or encountered
• Expound - to set forth, to state, to defend an argument
• Factionalism - the splitting of a group into separate groups
• Immaculate - pure, containing no flaw or error
• Imprecation - curse, insult
• Ineluctable - not to be avoided, changed, or resisted
• Mercurial - characterized by rapid and unpredictable changeableness of mood
• Palliate - to reduce the violence of; to cover by excuses and apologies
• Protocol - a code prescribing strict adherence to correct etiquette and precedence
• Resplendent - shining brilliantly, characterized by a glowing splendor
• Stigmatize - to describe or regard as worthy of disgrace or great disapproval; brand
• Sub Rosa - in confidence, secretly
• Vainglory - excessive pride especially in one's achievements
• Vestige - a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something
• Volition - an act of making a choice or decision

Sentences:

• The volleyball player received many accolades for her leadership on and off the court.
• My mom spoke to my sister with a touch of acerbity in her voice, as ashe was getting tired of her crazy antics.
• The club had an increase of attrition in members after the unpopular president was elected.
• The teacher uses plenty of corny bromides when talking to his students.
• At the country club, the many chauvinists are gathered around each hole, discussing the many lowly people beneath them.
• I suffer from chronic dancing disease: I just can't stop moving my feet when I hear that music! (Hehe.)
• No one dared to expound the subject that was brought up in the courtroom.
• Peace was finally threatened by the factionalism, drawing the unity of the people to a close.
• My room was simply immaculate after I was done vacuuming, dusting, and straightening.
• Throwing imprecations into a calm, non-aggressive debate just starts a juvenile argument between children.
• Her mood was mercurial sometimes that we didn't even know who she was one day or the next.
• In order to palliate the fight going on in the cafeteria, teachers rushed in and separated the two students immediately, taking them to separate rooms.
• It is strict protocol to NEVER come to work without your uniform.
• Her wedding ring gave off a resplendent glow as she took to the floor with her new husband.
• In "Awkward.", the protaganist is constantly stigmatized as a "suicidal freak."
• I am telling you this sub rosa, and it must be kept between the two of us.
• All the constant complimenting of her number one artpiece has raised her level of vainglory to an unspeakable height.
• The only vestige left behind by the knight was the faded footprint behind the house.
• Leaving of her own volition is a right that her family had to give her.