Fall Vocabulary List #3

Fall Vocab Words #3

Accolade: any award, honor, or laudatory notice

Acerbity: sourness, with roughness or astringency of taste.

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

Bromide: a person who is platitudinous and boring.

chauvinist: a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic

Chronic: constant; habitual

expound: to set forth or state in detail

factionalism: of a faction or factions.

immaculate: free from fault or flaw; perfect

imprecation: cursing someone.

ineluctable: incapable of being evaded; inescapable

mercurial: animated; lively; quick-witted

palliate: to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate.

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

resplendent: shining brilliantly; gleaming

stigmatize: to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon

sub rosa: confidentially; secretly; privately.

vainglory: excessive elation or pride

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

volition:the act of willing, choosing, or resolving

Vocabulary Sentences

1. Because of his heroism, the city gave him accolades for his deeds.
2. The lemon sorbet had a strong acerbity to it.
3. Because of the recession there has been an attrition in employment rates.
4. Students began to doze of because of the bromide teacher's lecture.
5. Some people believe that soldiers who go off to war are chauvinists because they defend a country of people they don't know.
6. Some people suffer from chronic diseases or illnesses such as depression and must be on constant regimens of medication.
7. In order to have support from the board, they must expound the proposal and address their concerns.
8. When war erupts many countries face the fear of internal and international factionalism. 
9. The car was immaculate after it was washed and waxed at the dealership.
10. Many people murmur imprecations at one another or strangers when they are frustrated.
11. Going to the doctor for a yearly physical is ineluctable.
12. The mercurial television show was a hit. 
13. In order to palliate the pain of her treatments they gave her prescription pain killers.
14. It is protocol to check the inventory once a month.
15. The resplendent ring attracted many prospective customers, but its high price caused many to think twice.
16. His family name was stigmatized when his father was convicted of murder in the first degree.
17. The government holds many meetings sub rosa for the sake of confidentiality and protocol.
18. The artist had vainglory in his work and was shocked when his painting wouldn't sell at his top price.
19. Dinosaurs have left several vestiges of their existence all around the world.
20. The jury decided that the defendant was acting of his own volition when he stole millions of dollars from the bank.