Vocab #9

1. Aficionado (noun): a person who likes, knows about and apreciates a persued interests or activity.

- I am and aficionado, because I want to be teacher and I volunteer at alicshaw. 

2. Browbeat (verb): to intimidate or disconcert by a stern manner or arrogant speech. 

- If you browbeat then you need the bully button pressed on you.

3. Commensurate (adjective): equal in measure or extent.

- Most of the speeches are commensurate. 

4. Diaphanous (adjective): vague, insubstantial. 

- The speech was very diaphanous. 

5. Emolument (noun): the returns arising from office or employment in the form of compensation. 

-The actor gets emoluments for working. 

6. Foray (verb): to ravage in search of spoils. 

-During the war the soldiers foray. 

7. Genre: a category of music, art, or literary work that is based on style or form.

- Country music is my favorite genre. 

8. Homily (noun): a usually short sermon. 

-Church is a homily. 

9. Immure (verb): to imprison. 

- When you lie you feel immure in your own words. 

10. Insouciant (adjective): lighthearted unconcern. 

-My mom is insouciant when I ask her to do things. 

11. Matrix (noun): something that something else originates from. 

-you make history matrixes off of the work in class. 

12. Obsequies (noun): a funeral of burial rite. 

- Familes always cry at obsequies. 

13. Panache (noun): dash in style and action. 

- We ware panache things everyday. 

14. Persona (noun): the personality that a person projects. 

-Stephanie has a bad persona and you see it through her adittude. 

15. Philippic (noun): a discourse or declamation full of bitter condemnation. 

- We got into a philippic after the game. 

16. Prurient (adjective): marked by arousing an unwholesome interests or desire. 

-We prurient things when we are sad. 

17. Sacrosanct (adjective): most sacrad or holy. 

-Things in church or sacrosanct. 

18. Systemic (adjective): of relating to or common to a system. 

- In class we are systemic everyday with routine. 

19. Tendentious (adjective): marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view. 

- during speeches politicans are alway tendentious. 

20. Vicissitude (noun): the state of being changeable. 

- Open source learning alows vicissitude in the classroom.