(I actually already looked up all these words using Random Absence Mentoring's vocab page awhile ago, so I'm not going to do my usual guessing thing this week. Anyway, all definitions are either copied or paraphrased from Dictionary.com, except for "matrix" and "vicissitude" which are from Wordnik.)
| 01) | aficionado | an ardent devotee, fan, or enthusiast |
| 02) | browbeat | to intimidate by domineering or overbearing looks or words; bully |
| 03) | commensurate | proportionate; corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree; adequate; of equal extent or duration |
| 04) | diaphanous | sheer and light; almost completely transparent or translucent; delicately hazy |
| 05) | emolument | salary, fees, or profit from employment; compensation for employment |
| 06) | foray | a quick or sudden raid or attack; an initial venture |
| 07) | genre | a class, category, or style of artistic endeavor |
| 08) | homily | a Biblical sermon; admonitory or moralizing discourse; inspirational saying or cliché |
| 09) | immure | to enclose within walls; seclude or confine; imprison |
| 10) | insouciant | free from concern, worry, or anxiety; carefree; nonchalant |
| 11) | matrix | a situation or surrounding substance within which something else originates, develops, or is contained |
| 12) | obsequies | funeral rites or ceremonies |
| 13) | panache | verve, style, flair, pizaazz |
| 14) | persona | a narrator or character in a literary work identified with the author; in Jung's psychology, a mask or façade that does not represent the true inner personality; a person's evident personality, as of a well-known offical, actor, celebrity, etc. |
| 15) | philippic | a speech or discourse of bitter denunciation |
| 16) | prurient | prone to lascivious thoughts, desires, etc.; having a restless desire or longing |
| 17) | sacrosanct | extremely sacred; not to be entered or trespassed upon |
| 18) | systemic | of or pertaining to a system |
| 19) | tendentious | having/showing a tendency, bias, or purpose |
| 20) | vicissitude | a change or variation; the quality of being changable; regular change or alternation from one thing to another |
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