Vocabulary Fall List 3:

Accolade:an award or privilege granted as a special honor or as an acknowledgment of merit.

Acerbity:sourness, with roughness orastringency of taste.

attrition:a reduction or decrease innumbers, size, or strength.

bromide:a person who is platitudinous and boring.

chauvinist:a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.

chronic:continuing a long time orrecurring frequently.

expound:to explain; interpret.

factionalism:self intrested

immaculate:free from spot or stain;spotlessly clean

imprecation:a curse

ineluctable:incapable of being evaded;inescapable.

mercurial:animated; lively; sprightly;quick-witted.

palliate:to try to mitigate or conceal the gravity of (an offense) by excuses, apologies, etc.;extenuate

protocol:an original draft, minute, orrecord from which a document,especially a treaty, is prepared.

stigmatize:to mark with a brand

sub rosa:confidentially; secretly; privately.

vainglory: empty pomp or show.

vestige:a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence.

volition:a choice or decision made by the will.