vocabulary #9

1.aficionado: someone who is devoted to something, very enthusiastic about an activity. 2.browbeat: a bully, someone intimidating who uses abusive words. 3.commensurate: having the same measure, in proportion. 4.diaphanous: transparent, translucent, light, delicate 5.emolument: profit, salary 6.foray: quick raid/attack 7.genre: class or category 8.homily: a biblical sermon 9.immure: to shut in, to enclose 10.insouciant: free from concern, worry; care free 11.matrix: an environment that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates. 12.obsequies: funeral or ceremony 13.panache: flamboyant style of manner or confidence 14.persona: a character or their characteristics 15.philippic: any of the speeches delivered Demosthenes against king Philip. 16.Prurient: having lustful thoughts/desires 17.Sacrosanct: extremely sacred, above and beyond criticism 18.Systemic: pertaining to a system or a group/body of people. 19.Tendentious: showing tendency, bias… 20.Vicissitude: a change occurring in the course of something, usually something bad.