- My cousin, who often spends her time painting, is an aficionado of art.
browbeat: (verb) to intimidate by overbearing words or looks; bully.
- The boys browbeat Stan into completing the rest of their project for them.
commensurate: (adjective) having the same measure; of equal extent, proportionate; having a common measure.
- The grade she earned in math was commensurate with the amount of time she spent completing her assignments.
diaphanous: (adjective) very sheer and light; almost completely transparent.
- Mari wore a floral printed skirt with a diaphanous blouse.
emolument: (noun) profit, salary, or fees from office or employment.
- Ana makes a decent emolument as a part time waitress.
foray: (noun) a quick, sudden attack; a quick raid.
- A tribe made a foray on the other tribe.
genre: (noun) a class or category of art, music or literature.
- Her favorite novels where those from the romantic genre.
homily: (noun) a religious sermon or speech that is intended to provide spiritual education, or any moral lessons that are being imparted, especially when being imparted or taught in a tedious way.
- A homily can be heard at church.
immure: (verb) to enclose within walls; to seclude or confine; to imprison.
- The criminals were immured to their cells.
insouciant: (adjective) free from concern, worry, or anxiety; carefree; nonchalant.
- I want to have an insouciant life more than anything else at the moment.
matrix: (noun) an environment in which something is created.
- The Constitution was a matrix from which democracy was born.
obsequies: (noun) funeral rite or ceremony.
- As his obsequies continued on his close relatives could not control their loud sobs.
panache: (noun) a grand or flamboyant manner; style; flair.
- Compared to all of the other girls at the party, Sue lacked panache.
persona: (noun) a person; the characters in a play or novel; a person's personality.
- He had a tough-guy persona.
philippic: (noun) a cruel attack of words.
- The boy received a philippic from his angry ex girlfriend.
prurient: (adjective) having or expressing lustful ideas or desires.
- Bob's prurient thoughts were disturbing.
sacrosanct: (adjective) extremely sacred or inviolable.
- There was a sacrosanct temple in the museum.
systematic: (adjective) having, showing, or involving a system, method, or plan.
- Kim always had a systematic approach to things.
tendentious: (adjective) Marked by a strong implicit point of view; having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose.
- There had been a tendentious account of the recent elections.
vicissitude: (noun) a change or variation.
- Their friendship continued to grow through the vicissitudes of ten years.
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