Vocabulary Snetences

Accolade: any award, honor, or laudatory notice

• There is no higher accolade that these officers can receive than to benominated and recognized by their peers.

Acerbity: sourness, with roughness or astringency of taste

• Many barbed references to slavery have been worked into the dialogue,and he delivers them with winning acerbity.

Attrition: a reduction or decrease in numbers, size, or strength

• Our school has had a high rate of attrition because so many members have moved away.

Bromide: a person who is platitudinous and boring

• Some bromide about the literary life being as unfair as the normal onemay have to do. 

Chauvinist : a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especiallyone devoted to military glory

• It seems to be a classic case of male chauvinism.

Chronic: constant; habitual; inveterate

• Chronic acute pain can last for months or years.

Expound:to set forth or state in detail

• Expounding the principle doctrines of the faith.

Factionalism:of a faction or factions.

• In a country in which peace is threatened by internal factionalism, a ymca song group also reaches communities with messages of peace.

Immaculate: free from fault or flaw; free from errors

• The dress code dale's stage dress is always immaculate; dress trousers, jacket & patent leather shoes

Imprecation: the act of imprecating; cursing

• The great joy of the moment, however, is dancing to music instead of the sound of my own breathing and muttered imprecations.

Ineluctable: incapable of being evaded; inescapable

• Ineluctable part of our lives.

Mercurial: animated; lively; sprightly; quick-witted.

• They can be very mercurial, one minute docile the next skittish.

Palliate: to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate

• Clinical symptoms were effectively palliated in all five patients.

Protocol: the customs and regulations dealing with diplomaticformality, precedence, and etiquette.

• Current systems rely on proprietary protocols and it is not possible to simply plug in new data sources or new services.

Resplendent: shining brilliantly; gleaming; splendid

• It is a precious vessel set with jewels, and so resplendent as to eclipse the lights of the hall.

Stigmatize: to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon 

• Girls who fail the to marry often stigmatized by their families and the community for months or years, and their marital value falls.

Sub rosa: confidentially; secretly; privately.

• He was a sub rosa man of twenty-six.

Vainglory: excessive elation or pride

• He did not hesitate to flaunt his great personal vainglory in public.

Vestige: a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is nolonger present or in existence

• The fossils form over thousands of years ago, left vestige evidence that dinosaurs once walked this land.

Volition:the act of willing, choosing, or resolving

• These people fail to pause, to consider the situation, options and consequences before exercising volition.