Vocabulary #9

Definitions:

-Aficionado: a person who likes, knows about, and appreciates a usually fervently pursued interest or activity.
-Browbeat: to intimidate or disconcert by a stern manner or arrogant speech.
-Commensurate: equal in measure or extent.
-Diaphanous: characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through.
-Emolument: the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites.
-Foray: to ravage in search of spoils.
-Genre: a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content.
-Homily: a usually short sermon; a lecture or discourse on or of a moral theme.
-Immure: to enclose within or as if within walls (imprison).
-Insouciant: lighthearted unconcern.
-Matrix: something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form.
-Obsequies: marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness.
-Panache: an ornamental tuft (as of feathers) especially on a helmet.
-Persona: a character assumed by an author in a written work.
-Philippic: a discourse or declamation full of bitter condemnation.
-Prurient: marked by or arousing an immoderate or unwholesome interest or desire.
-Sacrosanct: most sacred or holy.
-Systemic: relating to or a common to a system; affects the body typically.
-Tendentious: marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view.
-Vicissitude: the quality or state of being changeable.

On a gloomy Halloween night, a group of teenagers always decided to pillage and foray the candy in each neighborhood each year. The younger kids scattered as soon as they saw the teenagers walk by due to the fact that they would browbeat the children through vicious stares, which felt diaphanous. The gang of teens had a leader named Ryan. Ryan was the aficionado of this most devious plan because it felt sacrosanct to him since this was his last year of trick or treating. His persona was philippic, unreasonable, and insouciant. He wore a panache with various other random thrift shop items, which lacked any prurient. His outfit was vicissitude, which made it into a matrix due to the fact that he was constantly changing throughout the night in order to create different genres of horror. The girls is the group were obsequious over Ryan even though the guys thought he was a pompous idiot. Sadly, the girl's point of view was tendentious, so Ryan was able to use others in systemic ways to get what he desired through homily speeches. He did give emolument to those, who helped him, but it was not commensurate to what they did for him. Sadly, Ryan was able to immure some of friends in a toxic friendship.