vocab words 11/18

Question 1

aficionado

Answer 1

an enthusiastic and usually expert follower or fan

Question 2

browbeat

Answer 2

to intimidate by a stern or overbearing manner; to bully

Question 3

commensurate

Answer 3

equal in size, extent, duration, or importance; proportionate; measurable by the same standards

Question 4

diaphanous

Answer 4

very sheer and light; almost completely transparent

Question 4

emolument

Answer 4

profit derived from an office or position or from employment; a fee or salary

Question 5

foray

Answer 5

(n.) a quick raid, especially for plunder; a venture into some field of endeavor; (v.) to make such a raid

Question 6

genre

Answer 6

a type, class, or variety, especially a distinctive category of literary composition; a style of painting in which everyday scenes are realistically depicted

Question 7

homily

Answer 7

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

Question 8

immure

Answer 8

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

Question 9

insouciant

Answer 9

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

Question 10

matrix

Answer 10

a mold; the surrounding situation or environment

Question 11

obsequies

Answer 11

funeral rites or ceremonies

Question 12

panache

Answer 12

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

Question 13

persona

Answer 13

a character in a novel or play; the outward character or role that a person assumes

Question 14

philippic

Answer 14

a bitter verbal attack

Question 15

prurient

Answer 15

having lustful desires or interests; tending to arouse sexual desires

Question 16

sacrosanct

Answer 16

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

Question 17

systemic

Answer 17

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

Question 18

tendentious

Answer 18

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

Question 19

vicissitude

Answer 19

(n.) a change, variation, or alteration
(pl.) successive or changing phases or conditions