Accolade: any award, honor, or laudatory notice
Ex/ Kelli is super smart so she was given the highest accolade in the state.
Acerbity: sourness, with roughness or astringency of taste/harshness or severity, as of temper or expression
Ex/ Alyssa sometimes gets acerbity with her annoying sister
Attrition: a reduction or decrease in numbers, size, or strength/wearing down or weakening of resistance
Ex/ There is an attritionof pimples on the boy's face since he stopped eating twinkies.
Bromide: a platitude or trite saying/person who is platitudinous and boring
Ex/ It was hard to focus on the man's speech, for he was such a bromide.
Chauvinist: a person displaying aggressive or exaggerated patriotism/biased devotion to any group, attitude, or cause
Ex/ Her grandfather was a real chauvinist and her grandmother dislikes it.
Chronic: constant, habitual, inveterate/continuing a long time or recurring
Ex/ Alyssa has the chronic habit of chewing her nails.
Expound: to set forth or state in detail/to explain, interpret
Ex/My Dad cannot expound he word expound.
Factionalism: splitting into factions
Ex/ The nation's economic and political stability was threatened by the internal factionalism.
Immaculate: free from spot or stain; spotlessly clean/free from moral blemish or impurity/free from fault or errors
Ex/ Madonna's album was titled Immaculate.
Ineluctable: incapable of being evaded; inescapable
Ex/ Cancer is overall ineluctable, even if you can get rid of it.
Mercurial: changeable, volatile, fickle, flighty, erratic/lively, animated
Ex/ The mercurial ways my brother tells stories makes him hard to stand.
Palliate: to relieve or lessen without curing, mitigate, alleviate
Ex/ When I complained about my wisdom teeth coming in, my mother told me that some aspirin and ice should palliate the pain.
Protocol: the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, procedure, and etiquette
Ex/ You must follow proper protocol when performing the task at hand.
Resplendent: attractive and impressive through being richly colorful or sumptuous
Ex/ Adam Levine's music is amazing and resplendent
Stigmatize: to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon
Ex/ Pit bulls are stigmatized even though most are actually very sweet.
Sub rosa: confidentially, secretly, privately ("under the rose")
Ex/ I tell my best friends all my secrets with sub rosa.
Vainglory: excessive elation or pride over one's one achievements, abilities, etc., boastful vanity
Ex/ Some people have vainglory beyond belief.
Vestige: a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence/ surviving evidence or remainder
Ex/ Dinosaur bones are vestiges, and an amazing find always.
Volition: the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing/choice or decision made by will
Ex/ No one expected him to, but he asked the less popular girl to prom by his own volition.
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