Vocab #9

Aficionado- A person who has a large knowledge of something

"Go ask him, he's an aficionado in that sort of thing."

Browbeat- To use angry speech or threats at someone to get them to do something

"His boss would always browbeat him to to get him to go back to work."

Commensurate- Equal to something in size

"I once saw a man who was so tall, he almost seemed commensurate to a building."

Diaphanous- Thin and light cloth

"I only wear this shirt on hot days since it's very diaphanous."

Emolument- The returns arising from office or employment

 The annual emolument for the charity director is usually only a dollar."

Foray- Brief invasion

"The troops forayed into enemy territory."

Genre- A category of literature or art

"That movie should be classified in the horror genre."

Homily- A short talk or sermon

"A guest speaker came in an gave a small homily to the students."

Immure- To close within walls

"When the new building was being built, they did not remove the statue, and chose to immure it in with the new building."

Insouciant- A calm or relaxed state

"After all of his hard work, he felt very incouciant since all the stress is out of the way."

Matrix- Something shaped in a pattern

"His computer screen started looking like a matrix of pixels."

Obsequies- A funeral

"There will be an obsequies held to remember and celebrate his life."

Panache- Lots of energy and style

"Some people say that people in the 80's were very panache."

Persona- The way you act around a certain group of people

"He put on a more happy persona whenever around friends."

Philippic- A declamation of bitterness

"He was eventually kicked out of the event because of his frequent use of philippics."

Prurient- Showing too much interest in sex

"She obvious knew he was prurient because of how he seemed to be staring at her chest the whole date."

Sacrosanct- Too important or respected to be changed

"The town didn't want the new grocery store where the memorial was since they thought it was very sacrosanct."

Systemic- Affecting the whole body

"The disease he had was systemic and started spreading throughout his whole body."

Tendentious- Favoring a certain view over another

"He was more tendentious with his view since he could understand it better than the other."

Vicissitude- An altering change

"He went through a vicissitude and when I saw him again, he was almost a different person."