2) Browbeat: intimidate, typically into doing something, with stern or abusive words
3) Commensurate: corresponding in size or degree; in proportion
4) Diaphanous: light, delicate, and translucent
5) Emolument: a salary, fee, or profit from employment or office
6) Foray: a sudden attack or incursion into enemy territory
7) Genre: a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in
form, style, or subject matter
8) Homily: commentary that follows a reading of scripture
9) Immure: enclose or confine against their will
10) Insouciant: showing a casual lack of concern; indifferent
11) Matrix: an environment or material in which something develops; a surrounding medium or
structure
12) Obsequies: funeral rites
13) Panache: flamboyant manner and reckless courage
14) Persona: the image or personality that a person presents
15) Philippic: a bitter attack or denunciation
16) Prurient: having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters
17) Sacrosanct: regarded as too important or valuable to be interfered with
18) Systemic: of or relating to a system, esp. as opposed to a particular part
19) Tendentious: expressing or intending to promote a particular cause or point of view
20) Vicissitude: a change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant
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