Monday, October 29, 2012

Vocabulary List #10


Aficionado – an ardent devotee; fan, enthusiast
Browbeat - to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully
Commensurate - having the same measure of equal excess or duration, porportional accurate
Diaphanous – very sheer and light; almost completely transparent ortranslucent
Emolument – profit, salary, or fees from office or employment; compensation for services
Foray – a quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder
Genre – a cloass or category of articstic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique
Homily – an inspirational saying or cliché
Immure – to enclose within walls, to confine
Insouciant – free from worry, concern or anxiety; carefree
Matrix – something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates
Obsequies – a funeral rite or ceremony
Panache – a grand or flamboyant manner
Persona – a persons perceived or evident personality
Philippic -  any speech or discourse of bitter denunciation
Prurient – having, inclined to have, or characterized by lascivious or lustful thoughts, desires, etc.
Sacrosanct – extremely scared or inviolable
Systemic – of or pertaining to a system
Tendentious – having or showing a definite tendency
Vicissitude – a change or variation occurring in the course of something

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