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20 Terms

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Aficionado

Noun

  • An enthusiastic and usually expert follower or fan

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Browbeat

Verb

  • To intimidate by a stern or overbearing manner

  • To bully

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Commensurate

Adjective

  • Equal in size, extent, duration, or importance

  • Proportionate

  • Measurable by the same standards

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Diaphanous

Adjective

  • Very sheer and light

  • Almost completely transparent

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Emolument

Noun

  • Profit derived from an office or position or from employment

  • A fee or salary

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Foray

Noun

  • A quick raid, especially for plunder

  • A venture into some field of endeavor

Verb

  • To make such a raid

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Genre

Noun

  • A type, class, or variety, especially a distinctive category of literary composition

  • A style of painting in which everyday scenes are realistically depicted

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Homily

Noun

  • A sermon stressing moral principles

  • A tedious moralizing lecture or discourse

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Immure

Verb

  • To enclose or confine within walls

  • To imprison

  • To seclude or isolate

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Insouciant

Adjective

  • Blithely indifferent or unconcerned

  • Carefree

  • Happy-go-lucky

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Matrix

Noun

  • A mold

  • Surrounding situation or environment

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Obsequies

Noun

  • Funeral rites or ceremonies

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Panache

Noun

  • A confident and stulish manner dash

  • A strikingly elaborate or colorful display

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Persona

Noun

  • A character in a novel or play

  • The outward character or role that a person assumes

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Philippic

Noun

  • A bitter verbal attack

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Prurient

Adjective

  • Having lustful desires or interests

  • Tending to arouse sexual desires

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Sacrosanct

Adjective

  • Very sacred or holy

  • Inviolable

  • Set apart or immune from questioning or attack

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Systemic

Adjective

  • Of or pertaining to the entire body

  • Relating to a system/systems

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Tendentious

Adjective

  • Intended to promote a particular point of view, doctrine or cause

  • Biased or partisan

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Vicissitude

Noun

  • A change, variation, or alteration

Plural

  • Successive or changing phases or conditions

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