accolade: Something given to a person in order to praise or recognize his accomplishment
acerbity: harshness; severity; sourness
attrition: Wearing down or wasting away
bromide: A trite saying; platitude
chauvinist: Militant, unreasoning, and boastful devotion to one's country; jingoism
chronic: Chronic describes something that lasts for a long time, keeps coming back or
continues to happen
expound: To explain further or in more detail
factionalism: self-interested; partisan
immaculate: Describes someone or something that is free from mistakes, absolutely clean and
without sin
imprecation: The act of calling for evil or a curse on someone
ineluctable: Describes something that will definitely happen
mercurial: Having qualities suggestive of mercury; quick, quick-witted, volatile,
changeable, fickle, etc.
palliate: To make something less painful or unpleasant, or to calm fears
protocol: The rules and customs of a group or a standard procedure
resplendent: Full of splendor or dazzling
stigmatize: Make something seem bad or disgraceful
sub
rosa: Secretly; privately; confidentially
vainglory: Extreme self-pride and boastfulness; excessive and ostentatious vanity
vestige: A small amount of something or the last remaining part of something that no
longer exists
volition: The act of using your will to make a conscious decision
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