Honors English Vocab List 1

Sourness or bitterness of taste; harshness or severity of manner or expression

• acerbity

• bromide

• factionalism

• palliate

a trite or commonplace remark; a tiresome or boring person; a sedative

• expound

• bromide

• palliate

• sub rosa

to explain in detail

• immaculate

• bromide

• expound

• acerbity

party strife and intrigue

• immaculate

• palliate

• factionalism

• acerbity

spotless; without blemish or fault

• immaculate

• expound

• palliate

• bromide

characterized by rapid and unpredictable changes of mood; fickle or inconstant

• immaculate

• mercurial

• palliate

• sub rosa

to make less serious or severe by glossing over; to relieve without actually caring, mitigate

• mercurial

• palliate

• expound

• bromide

to brand or mark as in some way dis credible, disgraceful, or ignominious

• palliate

• mercurial

• stigmitize

• sub rosa

1.(adveb) in secret, confidentially; privately

2.(adjective) secretive

• stigmitize

• palliate

• sub rosa

• expound

acerbity

• a trite or commonplace remark; a tiresome or boring person; sedative

• sourness or bitterness of taste; harshness or severity of manner or expression

• to explain in detail

• to make less serious or severe by glossing over; to relieve without actually caring mitigate