pyrrhic, vindication, poetic justice, foregone conclusion, nugatory, fait accompli, wishful thinking, reformable, travesty, unpalatable, pipedream, revanche, illusory, inconceivable, triumphalism, uncontestable, axiomatically, foreordained, foolhardy, sour grapes, folly, plausible, temporized, irremediable, defeater, indeed, inevitable, capitulation, locus classicus, ignominious, ungraciously, arguable, defeatist, scorched earth policy, perverse, machination, partizan, faute de mieux, tenable, pity, galling, capitulate, undoing, majoritarianism, evitable, bunkum, containable, unceremonial, sovereignity, disastrous, castroism, implausible, purblind, realpolitik, vindicated, death knell, booby prize, salutary, red herring, europhile, masterstroke, nullity, disgrace, futile, cakewalk, gambit, instructive, repudiation, specious argument, unreformable, sanguinely, reconquest, magnanimous, untenable, stalemating, sticky wicket, acquiescence, counterblast, trump card, appeasement, victorious, preferable, anticlimax, treasonable, denouement, consolation prize, dispiriting, tantamount, anathema, irrelevance, unthinkable, irrelevant, incalculable, bloodbath, sepoy mutiny, endgame, unarguable, casus belli, miracle, ruling, glooming

triumph, victory