ENG3H Level H Unit 5

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Mrs. O'Boyle ENG3H

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ENG3H Level H Unit 5

aficionado
an enthusiastic and usually expert follower or fan
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aficionado an enthusiastic and usually expert follower or fan
browbeat to intimidate by a stern or overbearing manner; to bully
commensurate equal in size, extent, duration, or importance; proportionate; measurable by the same standards
diaphanous very sheer and light; almost completely transparent
emolument profit derived from an office or position or from employment; a fee or salary
foray a quick raid, espeically for plunder; a venture into some field or endeavor; to make such a raid
genre a type, class, or variety, espeically a distinctive category of literary composition; a style of painting in which everyday scenes are realistically depicted
homily a sermon stressing moral principles; a tedious moralizing lecture or discourse
immure to enclose or confine within walls; to imprison; to seclude or isolate
insouciant blithely indifferent or unconcerned; carefree; happy-go-lucky
matrix a mold; the surrouding situation or environment
obsequies funeral rites or ceremonies
panache a confident and stylish manner, dash; a strikingly elaborate or colorful display
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 interests; tending to arouse sexual desires
sacrosanct very sacred or holy; inviolable; set apart or immune from questioning or attack
systemic of or pertaining to the entire body; relating to a system or systems
tendentious intended to promote a particular point of view, doctrine, or cause; biased or partisan
vicissitude a change, variation, or alteration; successive or changing phases or conditions

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