List 3

Accolade: any award, honor, or privilege granted as an acknowledgement of merit.
Acerbity: sourness, a sharp bitterness
attrition: a reduction or decrease in numbers, size, or strength; a wearing down or weakening of resistance, especially as a result of continuous pressure or harassment:.
Bromide: a person who is boring.
chauvinist :a person displaying aggressive or exaggerated patriotism.
Chronic: habitual, (of an illness) Persisting for a long time or constantly recurring.
expound: to explain in detail or the meaning of
factionalism: The splitting of a group into factions; Conflict between factions
immaculate: free from flaws or mistakes; clean
Imprecation: a spoken cure; cursing.
ineluctable: Unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable
mercurial: changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic; animated; lively; sprightly; quick-witted.
palliate: to relieve or lessen without curing or removing the cause; mitigate; alleviate.
protocol: the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
resplendent: shining brilliantly; gleaming; splendid: attractive/impressive through being coloful
stigmatize: to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon:
sub rosa: happening or done in secret; confidentially; privately.
vainglory: excessive elation, vanity or pride
vestige: a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence; smallest amount.
volition:the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; using one’s will