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What is homily?
- Noun
- A sermon stressing moral principles; a tedious moralizinglecture of discourse.
'hom
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What is aficionado?
- an enthusiastic and usualyl expert follower or fan.
- Noun
- 'na
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What is foray?
- Noun
- A quick raid, especially for plunder; a venture into some field of endeavor;
- Verb
- to make such a raid
'for
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What is insouciant?
- Adjective
- blithely indiferrent or uncocnerned; carefree; happy go lcky.
- 'su
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What is browbeat?
- Verb
- To intimidate by a stern or overbearing manner; to bully.
- 'brau
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What is emolument?
- Noun
- Profit derived from n office or position or from employment; a fee or salary.
- 'mol
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What is immure?
- Verb
- to enclose or confine within walls; to imprison; to secludeor isolate.
- 'myur
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What is commensurate?
- Adjective
- Eqal in size, extent, dration or importance; proportionate; measurableby the same standards.
'men
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What is diaphanous?
- Adjective
- Very sheer and light; almost ocmpletely transperent.
- 'af
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What is genre?
- Noun
- a type, calss or vaierty especially a distinctive category of literary composition; a stlye of painting in which everyday scenes are realistically depicted.
- 'zhan
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What is sacrosanct?
- Adjective
- Very sacred or holy; inviolabl; set apart or immune from questioning or attack.
'sak
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What is vicissitude?
- Noun
- A change, variation, or alteration;
- Pl.
- Successive or changing phases or conditions
'sis
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What is matrix?
- Noun
- A mold; the surroundign situation or environment
'ma
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What is systemic?
- adjective
- of or pertaining to the entire body; relating to a system or systems.
'tem
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What is obsequies?
- Noun
- Funeral rites or ceremonies.
'ob
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What is tendentious?
- Adjective
- Intended to promote a particlar point of view, doctrine, or case; biased or partisan.
'den
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What is persona?
- Noun
- A charaqcter in a novel or play; the outward character or role that a person assumes.
'so
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What is panache?
- Noun
- A confident and stylish manner, dash; a strikingly elaborate or colorful display.
'nash
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What is prurient?
- Adjective
- Having lustful desires or itnerests; tending to arouse sexual desires.
'prur
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What is philippic?
- Noun
- A bitter verbal attack.
- 'liip
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