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Vocab Level H (5&6)
Stack #23696
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| aficionado | an enthusiastic and usually expert follower or fan |
| browbeat | to intimidate by a stern or over bearing manner; to bully |
| commensurate | equal in size, extend, duration, or importance; proportionate |
| diaphanous | very sheer and light; almost completely transparent |
| emolument | profit derived from an office or positionor from empolyment, a fee or salary |
| foray | a quick raid, especially for plunder |
| genre | a type, class, or variety, especially a distinctive catagory of literary composition |
| homily | a sermon stressing moral principals |
| immure | to enclose or confine within walls; to imprison |
| insouciant | blithely indifferent or unconcerened, carefree; happy-go-lucky |
| matrix | a mold, the surrounding situation or environment |
| obsequies | funeral rites or cerimonies |
| panache | a confident and stylish manner |
| persona | a character in a novel or play; the outward character or role that a person assumes |
| philippic | a bitter verbal attack |
| prurient | having lustful desires or intrests |
| sacrosanct | very sacred or holy |
| systemic | of or pertaining to the entire body |
| tendentious | intended to promote a perticular point of view |
| vicissitude | a change, variation, or alteration |
| abortive | failing to accompish an intended aim or purpose |
| bruit | to spread news |
| contumelious | insolent or rude in speech or behavior |
| dictum | a short saying, an authoritative statement |
| ensconce | to settle comfortable and firmly into position; to put or hide in a safe place |
| iconoclastic | attacking or seeking to overthrow popular or traditional beliefs, ideas, or institutions |
| in medias res | in or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things |
| internecine | mutually destructive, characterized by great slaughter and bloodshed |
| maladroit | lacking skill or dexterity; lacking tack, perception, or judgement |
| maudlin | excessively or effusively sentimental |
| modulate | to change or very in intensity or pitch |
| portentous | forshadowing an event to come; causing wonder or awe |
| prescience | knowledge of events or actions before they happen, foresight |
| quid pro quo | something given in exchange or return for something else |
| salubrious | conductive to health or well-being, wholesome |
| saturnalian | characterized by riotous or unrestrained revelary |
| touchstone | the means of test worth or genuineness |
| traumatic | so shocking to the emotions as to cause lasting and substantial psychological damage |
| vitiate | to weaken, debase, or corrupt |
| waggish | fond of making jokes; characteristic of a joker |
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