AP Lit. vocabulary Unit 4

 Aficionado - noun - an enthusiastic and usually expert follower or fan

Synonyms - devotee, enthusiast  Antonyms - novice, indifferent

 Browbeat - verb - to intimidate by a stern or overbearing manner; to bully

Synonyms - cow, coerce     Antonyms - cajole, coax, wheedle

 Commensurate - adjective - equal in size, extent, duration, or importance, proportionate; measurable by the same standards

Synonyms - comparable, corresponding, coordinate  Antonyms - disproportionate, irregular

 Diaphanous - adjective - very sheer and light; almost completely transparent

Synonyms - translucent, gossamer   Antonyms - opaque, dense

 Emolument - noun - profit derived from an office or position or from employment; a fee or salary    

Synonyms - pay, wages   Antonyms - expenditure, forfeiture

 * Foray -noun - a quick raid, especially for plunder; a venture into some field of endeavor;  verb - to make such a raid

Synonyms - sally, sortie    Antonyms - retreat, restore

 Genre - noun - a type, class, or variety, especially a distinctive category of literary composition.

Synonyms - species, sort, school  Antonyms - individual, misrepresentation

 Homily - noun - a sermon stressing moral principles; a tedious moralizing lecture or discourse.

Synonyms - Sermon, lesson, lecture   Antonyms - profundity 

 Immure - verb - to enclose or confine within walls; to imprison; to seclude or isolate.

Synonyms - mew up, cloister, intomb, imprison   Antonyms - release, liberate, emancipate

 Insouciant - adjective - blithely indifferent or unconcerned; carefree; happy-go-lucky

Synonyms - blase, nonchalant, cavalier  Antonyms - worried, careworn, agitated

 Matrix - noun - a mold; the surrounding situation or environment

Synonyms- pattern, model    Antonyms - original, prototype

 Obsequies - noun - funeral rites or ceremonies

Interment, entombment  Antonyms - exhumation, cremation

 Panache - noun - a confident and stylish manner; dash; a strikingly elaborate or colorful display  Synonyms - verve, elan, eclat   Antonyms - torpor, lethargy

 Persona - noun - a character in a novel or play; the outward character or role that a person assumes.

Synonyms - personality, image, role   Antonyms - candor, bluntness

 Philippic - noun - a bitter verbal attack

Synonyms - harangue, diatribe  Antonyms - encomium, panegyric

 Prurient - adjective - having lustful desires or interests; tending to arouse sexual desires

Synonyms - lascivious, lewd, titillating   Antonyms - prudish, demure

 Sacrosanct - adjective - very holy or sacred; inviolable; set apart or immune from questioning or attack.

Synonyms - secular, profane     Antonyms - unassailable, inviolate

 Systemic - adjective - of or pertaining to the entire body; relating to a system or systems

Synonyms - extensive, comprehensive   Antonyms - specific, isolated, confined

 Tendentious - adjective - intended to promote a particular point of view, doctrine or cause; biased or partisan.

Synonyms - Partial, bigoted, prejudiced   Antonyms - fair, equitable, disinterested

 Vicissitude -noun- a change, variation, or alteration; (pl) successive or changing phases or conditions.

Synonyms - fluctuation, vacillation   Antonyms - sameness, stagnation, uniformity