Vocab Unit 5 Level H Flashcards
Aficionado
(n) an enthusiastic and usually expert follower or fan
SYN: devotee, enthusiast
Browbeat
(v) to intimidate by a stern or overbearing manner; to bully
SYN: cow, coerce
ANT: coax, cajole, wheedle, sweet-talk
Commensurate
(adj) equal in size, extent, duration, or importance; proportionate; measurable by the same standards
SYN: comparable, corresponding, coordinate
Diaphanous
(adj) very sheer and light; almost completely transparent
SYN: translucent, gossamer
ANT: opaque, coarse, dense
Emolument
(n) profit derived from and office or position from employment; a fee or salary
SYN: pay, wages, compensation
Foray
(n) a quick raid, especially for plunder; a venture into some field of endeavor; to make such a raid
SYN: sally, sortie
ANT: retreat, strategic, withdrawal
Genre
(n) a type, class, or variety, especially a distinctive category of literary compensation; a style of painting in which everyday scenes are realistically depicted
SYN: species, sort, school
Homily
(n) a sermon stressing moral principles; a tedious moralizing lecture or discourse
Immure
(v) to enclose or confine within; to imprison; to seclude or isolate
SYN: incarcerate, mew up
ANT: release, liberate, emancipate
Insouciant
(adj) blithely indifferent or unconcerned; carefree; happy-go-lucky
SYN: nonchalant, blasé, devil-may-care
ANT: worried, careworn, agitated, distraught
Matrix
(n) a mold; the surrounding situation or environment
SYN: pattern, model
Obsequies
(n) funeral rites or ceremonies
SYN: last rites, funeral services
Panache
(n) a confident and stylish manner, dash; a strikingly elaborate or colorful display
SYN: style, verve, elan, éclat, flamboyant
Persona
(n) character in a novel or play; the outward character fed or role that a person assumes
SYN: personality, image, role
Philippic
(n) a bitter verbal attack
ANT: encomium, panegyric, tribute
Prurient
(adj) having lustrous desires or interest; tending to arouse sexual desires
SYN: lascivious, salacious, lewd, titillating
ANT: prudish, demure, innocent
Sacrosanct
(adj) very sacred or holy; inviolable, set or immure from questioning or attack
Systemic
(adj) of or pertaining to the entire body; relating to a system or systems
SYNM extensive, comprehensive, system-wide
ANT: localized, specific, isolated, confined
Tendentious
(adj) intended to promote a particular point of view, doctrine, or cause, biased or partisan
SYN: partial
ANT: fair, impartial, equitable, disinterested
Vicissitude
(n) a change, variation, or alternation (pl) successive or changing phases or conditions
SYN: fluctuation, vacillation
ANT: sameness, evenness
