VOCAB #4

Definitions: 
1) Accolade: a mark of acknowledgement; award 
2) Acerbity: the quality of being acidic in tone, temper, or mood
3) Attrition: the act of weakening or exhausting by constant harassment, abuse, or attack
4) Bromide: a commonplace or tiresome personor idea
5) Chauvinist: undue partiality or attachment to a group or place to which one belongs or has belonged
6) Chronic: marked by long duration or frequent recurrence
7) Expound: to explain by setting forth in careful and often elaborate detail 
8) Factionalism: the existence of or conflict between groups within a larger group
9) Immaculate: clean, neat, and free from blemishes
10) Imprecation: curses that call down on someone
11) Ineluctable: not to be avoided, changed, or resisted; inevitable 
12) Mercurial: characterized by rapid and unpredictable changeableness of mood
13) Palliate: to moderate the intensity of
14) Protocol: a code prescribing strict adherence to correct etiquette and precedence 
15) Resplendent: shining brilliantly; characterized by a glowing splendor
16) Stigmatize: to describe or identify in disgraceful terms
17) Sub Rosa: in confidence 
18) Vainglory: excessive or ostentatious pride especially in one's achievements
19) Vestige: the smallest quantity or trace
20) Volition: an act of making a choice or decision

Sentences: 
1) The two soldiers who lost their lives fighting for their country received a high accolades for their services and sacrifices. 
2) The new employee of the fast food restaurant was shocked by the frequent acerbity in the voices of the customers she encountered. 
3) The attrition from his busy week of sports, school, and work, left John spending most of his weekend resting. 
4) Kelsey dreaded the pep rally that was to take place on Friday, already tired from the typical bromides from ASB about how this year was the year they could make a difference.
5) She rejected the male chauvinist who offered her help, stubborn that she could accomplish it herself.
6) My mother claims she suffers from chronic headaches, though really I feel that she gets them from the stress of raising 5 children. 
7) My father was careful to expound the careful care of his prized truck when my brother had to borrow it for a night. 
8) The factionalism of the student body was ridiculous when you took in to account that they were only running a government for 300 students.
9) Because she had a tendency to procrastinate on her school work by cleaning, her room was immaculate during finals week. 
10) She muttered imprecations while cleaning the several muddy footprints her brother left on the carpet because he had forgotten to remove his shoes. 
11) It was ineluctable fact that this time next year she would no longer be living with her family, instead thousands of miles away to attend her dream college.
12) Her mercurial temper had even her friends guessing how she would be feeling the next time they saw her. 
13) She tried to palliate the severity of what she had done when talking to her mother so that she would not receive the big talk she already saw coming. 
14) Because it was against protocol to have access to their cell phones during boot-camp  the new marines had to go weeks without talking to their families.  
15) She looked resplendent in her new white dress, leaving her boyfriend breathless when she arrived.  
16) She felt that the officer stigmatized her offences in hope of making up for fining her for something silly. 
17) She helf the painful secrets she had gathered from friends throughout the years  sub rosa, not wanting to expose them.  
18)The vainglory he showed after winning the championship only helped to turn his school against him
19) My favorite  country song talks of the simple vestiges teens leave throughout their favorite spots of town that keep their memories alive even after they have gone.
20) She gave up sweets in her own volition, hoping to start a healthier life style before it was too late.