Accolade: any award, honor, or laudatory notice: The play receivedaccolades from the press.
Acerbity: sourness, with roughness or astringency of taste.
attrition:a reduction or decrease in numbers, size, or strength: Ourclub has had a high rate of attrition because so many membershave moved away.
Bromide: a person who is platitudinous and boring.
chauvinist :a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especiallyone devoted to military glory.
Chronic:constant; habitual; inveterate:
expound:to set forth or state in detail:
factionalism:of a faction or factions.
immaculate:free from fault or flaw; free from errors
imprecation:the act of imprecating; cursing.
ineluctable:incapable of being evaded; inescapable
mercurial:animated; lively; sprightly; 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; splendid:
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
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