Vocabulary #6

Accolade: An award or privilege granted for special honor.

• Think of winning a trophy because you won the tournament.

Acerbity: A sharp bitterness.

• Think of acid and that if you ate it it would be bitter.

Attrition: The act of weakening by attack or pressure.

• Think of attacking and that after awhile it weakens you.

Bromide: An unoriginal idea or remark.

• Think of bromide as a chemical and that its unoriginal because it was discovered along time ago.

Chauvinist: A person displaying aggressive or exaggerated patriotism.

• Think of activist and that they over exaggerate their cause.

Chronic: Persisting for a long time.

• Think of having chronic headaches because they last a long time.

Expound: Present and explain systematically in detail.

• Think of explaining by the pound(in detail).

Factionalism: Relating or belonging to a faction (group).

• Think of coalition and that it is a group.

Immaculate: Perfectly clean and tidy.

• Think of Whitney’s immaculate room.

Imprecation: A spoken curse.

• Think of a curse should make you cautious.

Ineluctable: Can't be resisted or avoided.

• Think of delectable and you can’t resist delectable food.

Mercurial: Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes in mood or mind.

• Think of if you eat mercury it will cause a sudden change in mind because its poisonous.

Palliate: To make less severe or unpleasant.

• Think of alleviate and that should make you think of making things less painful.

Protocol: The official procedure or system of rules governing affairs of state.

• Think of maintaining protocol to get the job done.

Resplendent: Attractive and impressive through being richly colorful or sumptuous.

• Think of splendor and that splendorous things are bright and colorful.

Stigmatize: Described or regarded as worthy of disgrace or great disapproval.

• Think of dramatize and that dramatic people are disgraceful because they create drama.

Sub rosa: Happening or done in secret.

• Think of sub being underground so its done in secret like the underground railroad.

Vainglory: Excessively vain.

• Think of vain being vain.

Vestige: A trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exists.

• Think of a vest and that they are no longer trendy but people still wear them.

Volition: The faculty or power of using one's will.

• Think of volt and voltages have a lot of power.

Obsequious: Obedient

• Think of obedient because the first letters.

Beatitude: Supreme blessedness.

• Think of Matthew 5 in the bible because it talks about the beatitudes and God blesses.

Bete Noire: A person or thing that one particularly dislikes or dreads.

• Think of betting someone and you want to beat them so you dislike them.

Bode: To predict.

• Think of I don’t know you will just have to memorize it.

Dank: Disagreeably damp, musty, and typically cold.

• Think of the bottom of a tank that has not been cleaned and its cold and musty.

Ecumenical: Representing a number of different Christian churches; nondenominational.

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Fervid: Intensely enthusiastic or passionate, to an excessive degree.

• Think of being fervid for a college degree.

Fetid: Smelling extremely unpleasant.

• Think of stinky feet.

Gargantuan: Enormous.

• Think of gigantic and gargantuan kind of sounding the same and gigantic is something that is big.

Heyday: The time of a persons greatness in success, popularity, or vigor.

• Think of when you find the needle in the hay you have reached your greatest success. 

Incubus: Something that weighs upon or oppresses someone like a nightmare.

• Think of the band incubus and that they sing songs about sad stuff and nightmares. (I think)

Infrastructure: The basic structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.

• Think of structure and in infrastructure and that you need a structure to create an enterprise.

Inveigle: Persuade to do something by means of flattery or deception.

• Think of finagle and inveigle because they rhyme and finagle means to try to get something.

Kudos: Praise and honor received for an achievement.

• Think of kudos as kidos(like kids) and that they receive praise for doing things.

Lagniappe: Something given as a bonus or extra gift.

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Prolix: Using or containing too many words, tediously lengthy.

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Protégé: A person who is guided by an older wiser person.

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Prototype: A first model of something.

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Sycophant: A person who acts obsequiously toward someone important in order to gain an advantage.

• Think of to sync with someone in order to gain from them. 

Tautology: The saying of the same thing twice in different ways.

• Think of taunting someone and that makes me think of copying what someone else says; repeating the words twice.

Truckle: To submit.

• Think of tucking in your shirt and its like submitting the bottom of your shirt to your jeans.