Accolade: Any award, honor, or laudatory notice: The player received accolades from the press.
Acerbity: Sourness, with roughness or astringency of taste.
attrition: A reduction or decrease in numbers, size, or strength: Our team has had a high rate of attrition because so many players have moved away.
Bromide: A person who is platitudinous and boring. The substitute seems to be bromide.
chauvinist : A person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory. ?
Chronic: Constant; habitual; inveterate: I have chronic back spasms.
expound: to set forth or state in detail: ?
factionalism: of a faction or factions. ?
immaculate: free from fault or flaw; free from errors. The house was immaculate.
imprecation: the act of imprecating; cursing. My dad tends to imprecate when he gets mad.
ineluctable: incapable of being evaded; inescapable. Death and taxes are two ineluctable things in life.
mercurial: animated; lively; sprightly; quick-witted. Troy Prober is a very mercurial person.
palliate: to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate. I took advil to palliate my headache.
protocol: the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette. Tom got fired because he didnt follow protocol.
resplendent: shining brilliantly; gleaming; splendid: Her smile was resplendent after her boyfriend asked her to marry him.
stigmatize: to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: Hilter stigmatized the Jewish people with the Star of David.
sub rosa: confidentially; secretly; privately. The President met with the Secretary of Defense sub rosa to talk about the bombing of the twin towers.
vainglory: excessive elation or pride. ?
vestige: a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence. The Greek Colosseum is a vestige of the Greek Empire.
volition: the act of willing, choosing, or resolving.
