- Aficionado: an ardent devotee; fan, enthusiast.
- He was a cigar aficionado who collected all of the world's finest cigars and enclosed them within glass casing.
- Browbeat: to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully.
- I found it unfair how the older kid could browbeat the littler ones.
- Commensurate: having the same measure; of equal extent or duration; proportionate; adequate.
- You will receive wages that are commensurate to your workload.
- Diaphanous: very sheer and light; almost completely transparent or translucent; delicately hazy.
- Her bright, yellow shirt was so diaphanous that you could see her skin underneath it.
- Emolument: profit, salary, or fees from office or employment; compensation for services.
- Tips are emolument in addition to wages.
- Foray: a quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder.
- Quite some time ago, pirates were known to make forays on ships containing precious cargo.
- Genre: a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like.
- Some people's favorite genre of music is country, but I can't stand it personally.
- Homily: a sermon, usually on a Biblical topic and usually of a nondoctrinal nature; an inspirational saying or cliché.
- The motivational speaker gave not a lecture but a homily to the delinquent students in order to help them get their lives back on track.
- Immure: to enclose within walls.
- The prisoner was immured within the walls of the jail cell as consequence for his transgressions.
- Insouciant: free from concern, worry, or anxiety; carefree; nonchalant.
- That guy is so insouciant that if the world were to end tomorrow, he would still carry on with his day as if it were like any other without a care in the world.
- Matrix: something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops.
- Game developers create a matrix in order to develop and originate new ideas for their product.
- Obsequies: a funeral rite or ceremony.
- The obsequies of my Aunt took place in the town in which she was raised.
- Panache: a grand or flamboyant manner; verve; style; flair.
- Some people display great panache when they overuse flagrant hand motions while speaking.
- Persona: the characters in a play, novel, etc.
- Shakespeare created a complex persona when writing Hamlet.
- Philippic: any speech or discourse of bitter denunciation.
- After losing the big game, the infuriated coach denounced his players with an aggressive philippic that greatly discouraged yet motivated them to do better at the same time.
- Prurient: having a restless desire or longing.
- All her life, the young girl was prurient for love, but she never found it.
- Sacrosanct: extremely sacred or inviolable; not to be entered or trespassed upon.
- In the Biblical era, God's altar was so sacrosanct that if it touched the floor, those who caused the error were killed.
- Systemic: of or pertaining to a system.
- The systemic team of producers worked like a well-oiled machine when they were together.
- Tendentious: having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose.
- After seeing much repetition of his favorite theme throughout most of his writing, the tendentious author began to bore his readers.
- Vicissitude: a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
- After experiencing almost every type of vicissitude in war, General Robert E. Lee surrendered and made peace with the Union.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
VOCABULARY LIST 9
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