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.
