vocabulary #9

1.aficionado: someone who is devoted to something, very enthusiastic about an activity.

When my brother was younger he was a complete aficionado when it came to building legos.

2.browbeat: a bully, someone intimidating who uses abusive words.

I have always found it difficult to get along with browbeat kind of people.

3.commensurate: having the same measure, in proportion.

When baking goods my sister and I always commensurate our supplies.

4.diaphanous: transparent, translucent, light, delicate

I put on a very tough and unbreakable personality, but in reality I am vey diaphanous.

5.emolument: profit, salary

I made sure to count the emolument of the day before I lest the shop.

6.foray: quick raid/attack

The climax in the novel was when his brother died from a foray when hiding at the neighbor’s house.

7.genre: class or category

I love reading books that are part of the fiction genre.

8.homily: a biblical sermon

Every Sunday Father John gives a brief homily about the bible is tying to communicate to us.

9.immure: to shut in, to enclose

Some days I feel like stopping the universe and immuring life for a couple of hours.

10.insouciant: free from concern, worry; care free

The only times when I am truly insouciant is when I am surrounded by people that love me and that I love as well.

11.matrix: an environment that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates.

Apple computers was a matrix for the I-pod and the Iphone’s.

12.obsequies: funeral or ceremony

I do not like attending any type of obsequies, because they are solemn and melancholic.

13.panache: flamboyant style of manner or confidence

Ana is a person that attracts many people because of her panache personality.

14.persona:  a character or their characteristics

Ken’s persona struck me as cocky and vain.

15.philippic: any of the speeches delivered Demosthenes against king Philip.

We learned about the Philippic speeches in History last week.

16.Prurient: having lustful thoughts/desires

To Catholics being prurient would be a sin.

17.Sacrosanct: extremely sacred, above and beyond criticism

The body and blood of Christ is sacrosanct to Catholics.

18.Systemic: pertaining to a system or a group/body of people.

Facebook is a systematic web because it lies on the hands of many.

19.Tendentious: showing tendency, bias…

It surprises me how many people show tendentious attitudes without even noticing it.

20.Vicissitude: a change occurring in the course of something, usually something bad.

I categorized the triathlon as a vicissitude because it was in the middle of all of my college applications and scholarships.