Vocabulary of the day!! Vendetta: 1- a private feud in which the members of the family of a murdered person seek to avenge the murder by killing the slayer or one of the slayer's relatives, especially such vengeance as once practiced in Corsica and parts of Italy. 2- any prolonged and bitter feud, rivalry, contention, or the like: a political vendetta. Origin: 1850–55; <Italian <Latin vindicta vengeance