unit 5

Question 1

aficionado

Answer 1

enthusiastic and usually expert follower or fan

Question 2

browbeat

Answer 2

intimidate by a stern or overbearing manner; to bully

Question 3

commensurate

Answer 3

equal in size, extent, duration, or importance

Question 4

diaphanous

Answer 4

very sheer and light; almost completely transparent

Question 5

emolument

Answer 5

profit derived from an office or position or from employment

Question 6

foray

Answer 6

a quick raid, especially for plunder; a venture into some field or endeavor

Question 7

genre

Answer 7

a type, class, or variety

Question 8

homily

Answer 8

a sermon stressing moral principles; a tedious moralizing lecture or discourse

Question 9

immure

Answer 9

to enclose or confine within walls; to imprison; to seclude or isolate

Question 10

insouciant

Answer 10

blithely indifferent or unconcerned; carefree; happy-go-lucky

Question 11

matrix

Answer 11

a mold; the surrounding situation or environment

Question 12

obsequies

Answer 12

funeral rites or ceremonies

Question 13

panache

Answer 13

a confident and stylish manner, dash; a strikingly elaborate or colorful display

Question 14

persona

Answer 14

a character in a novel or play; the outward character

Question 15

philippic

Answer 15

a bitter verbal attack

Question 16

prurient

Answer 16

having lustful desires or interests

Question 17

socrosanct

Answer 17

very sacred or holy; inviolable, set apart or immune from questioning or attack

Question 18

systemic

Answer 18

of or pertaining to the entire body; relating to a system

Question 19

tendentious

Answer 19

intended to promote a particular point of view , doctrine, or cause

Question 20

vicissitude

Answer 20

a change, variation, or alteration