Level H Unit 5 Vocabulary

Aficionado

(n.) an enthusiastic and usually expert follower or fan s: devotee, enthusiast

Browbeat

(v.) to intimidate by a stern or overbearing manner; to bully s: cow, coerce a: cajole, coax, wheedle, sweet-talk

Commensurate

(adj.) equal in size, extent, duration, or importance; proportionate; measurable by the same standards s: comparable, corresponding, coordinate

Diaphanous

(adj.) very sheer and light; almost completely transparent s: translucent, gossamer a: opaque, dense

Emolument

(n.) profit derived from an office or position or from employment; a fee or salary s: pay, wages

Foray

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

Genre

(n.) a type, class, or variety, especially a distinctive category of literary composition; a style of painting in which everyday scenes are realistically depicted s: species, sort, school

Homily

(n.) a sermon stressing moral principles; a tedious moralizing lecture or discourse

Immure

(v.) to enclose or confine within walls; to imprison; to seclude or isolate s: mew up a: release, liberate, emancipate

Matrix

(n.) a mold; the surrounding situation or environment s: pattern, model

Insouciant

(adj.) blithely indifferent or unconcerned; carefree; happy-go-lucky s: blase, devil-may-care a:worried, careworn, agitated, distraught

Obsequies

(n.) funeral rites or ceremonies s: funeral services

Panache

(n.) a confident and stylish manner, dash; a strikingly elaborate or colorful display s: style, verve, elan, eclat

Persona

(n.) a character in a novel or play; the outward character or role that a person assumes s: personality, image, role

Philippic

(n.) a bitter verbal attack s: harangue, diatribe a: encomium, panegyric

Prurient

(adj.) having lustful desires or interests; tending to arouse sexual desires s: lascivious, lewd, titillating a: prudish, demure

Sacrosanct

(adj.) very sacred or holy; inviolable; set apart or immune from questioning or attack

Systemic

(adj.) of or pertaining to the entire body; relating to a system or systems s: extensive, comprehensive, system-wide a: specific, isolated, confined, localized

Tendentious

(adj.) intended to promote a particular point of view, doctrine or cause; biased or partisan s: partial a: fair, equitable, disinterested

Vicissitude

(n.) a change, variation, or alteration; (pl.) successive or changing phases or conditions s: fluctuation, vacillation a: sameness, evenness