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: continuing a long time or recurring frequently
expound: to explain; interpret.
factionalism:self-interested; partisan
immaculate: free from moral blemish or impurity; pure
imprecation: the act of imprecating; cursing.
ineluctable: incapable of being evaded; inescapable, inevitable, unavoidable, irrevocable, unpreventable, unstoppable, inexorable.
mercurial: changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic
palliate: to try to mitigate or conceal the gravity of (an offense) by excuses, apologies, etc.; extenuate.
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 mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence
volition: the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing
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