accolade: any award, honor, or laudatory notice:
acerbity: sourness, with roughness or astringency of taste.
attrition: a reduction or decrease in numbers, 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: constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
expound: to set forth or state in detail: to expound theories.
factionalism: self-interested; partisan
immaculate: free from spot or stain; spotlessly clean: immaculate linen.
imprecation: the act of imprecating; cursing.
ineluctable: incapable of being evaded; inescapable: an ineluctable destiny. Synonyms: inevitable, unavoidable, irrevocable, unpreventable, unstoppable, inexorable. Antonyms: certain, sure, fated.
mercurial: changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic: a mercurial nature.
palliate: to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate.
protocol: the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, 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 over one's own achievements, abilities, etc.; boastful vanity.
vestige: a very slight trace or amount of something
volition: the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing
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