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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Vocabulary: spring list #4

Accolade- Award; Praise
(Developmental Psychologist believes to stimulate and accolade in response)
Acerbity- Sourness,  embittered speech
(I believe in acerbic comments to those who deserve them)
Attrition- Wearing down or wasting away
(Webster's dictionary eventually will attrition the more technology is advanced)
Bromide- A common place idea or notion
(Between the bromide solution's, the experiment will finally reveal the correct formula to make silver)
Chauvinist- Overly loyal to your country, race, sex, etc.
(Militant soldier's are the most chauvinist people on earth)
Chronic- continuing for long periods of time
(The thylakoid glands are one of the most chronic pain's when they are infected and not removed soon enough)
Expound- To give a detailed statement of something
(When AJ get's caught doing bad, he tends to expound his reasoning explaining he is not in fault, and that's when you know he's lying)
Factionalism-Conflict within a party
(Religious factionalism has added to cold war tensions)
Immaculate- free from sin or fault
(They say those who are baptized by a church are usually immaculate)
Imprecation- Act on calling for evil or curse on someone
(To seek revenge John has to imprecate in result for his vengeance)
Ineluctable- Not capable of being avoided or overcome
(There is no ineluctable conclusion to this event of evil being spared on one another)
Mercurial- Changeable or fickle
(In fiction characterization, we can mercurial the main characters into something bigger than just that)
Palliate- Make something less painful or unpleasant
(In order for us to help the hurt customer we need to set her on her back and lay a pillow under her head in order to palliate the pain)
Protocol- Rules and customs of a group or standard procedure
(It is easier to follow protocol than to complicate any new additions to our store policy)
resplendent- Full of splendor or dazzling
(That watch is just absolute resplendent)
Stigmatize- To make something seem bad or disgraceful
(Rosa stigmatized her accident to get attention from the press)
Sub rosa- Secretly; Privately; confidentially
(Angie and Mia seem very Sub rosa lately)
Vainglory- Extreme self pride and boastfulness
(People with much success have the right to show vainglory)
Vestige- A small amount of something
(A vestige amount of students enrolled this year)
Volition- Using your will to make a conscious decision
(Human volition is very powerful but some people don't even realize the power they withhold)




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