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
Chronic: Constant or habitual
Expound: To set forth or state in detail
Factionalism: Of a faction or factions
Immaculate: Free from fault or flaw
Imprecation: The act of imprecation
Ineluctable: Incapable of being evaded
Mercurial: Animated
Palliate: To relieve or lessen without curing
Protocol: The customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette
Resplendent: Shining brilliantly
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 no longer present or in existence
Volition: The act of willing, choosing, or resloving
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