Aficionado: enthusiast: somebody who is enthusiastic and knowledgeable about something
Browbeat: intimidate into doing something with stern or abusive words
Commensurate: corresponding in size or degree; in proportion
Diaphanous: light, delicate
Emolument: a salary, fee, or profit from employment or office
Foray: a sudden attack or incursion into enemy territory
Genre: a category of artistic composition, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter
Homily: commentary that follows a reading of scripture
Immure: enclose or confine against their will
Insouciant: showing a casual lack of concern; indifferent
Matrix: an environment or material in which something develops
Obsequies: funeral burial
Panache: flamboyant manner and reckless courage
Persona: the image or personality that a person presents
Philippic: a bitter attack or denunciation
Prurient: having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters
Sacrosanct: regarded as too important or valuable to be interfered with
Systemic: of or relating to a system opposed to a particular part
Tendentious: expressing or intending to promote a particular cause or point of view
Vicissitude: a change of circumstances or fortune, one that is unwelcome or unpleasant
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