Vocab Sem 2 #5-8

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Aficionado

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An ardent devotee; fan; enthusiast

"Nobody knew that the doctor was actually a huge dub step aficionado."

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Browbeat

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To intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully

"After all, he was a doctor, he could browbeat anyone he wanted too."

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Diaphanous

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Profit; salary; fees from office or employment; compensation for services

"Mr. Obama gets about 450k Diaphanous for being in office."

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Foray

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a quick raid; a sudden attack

"The foray on your intestines by the virus is not treatable now." said the doctor.

-synonym: beleaguer

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Homily

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A sermon, usually on a biblical topic

"Today's public homily touched us all.. "

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Immure

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To enclose within walls

"[immured doctor]"

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Matrix

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Something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates

"Latin is the matrix of English and many other derivatives."

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Panache

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A grand or flamboyant manner, venue, style, flair

"The Doctor walked through their office with such panache that they remembered they obliterated their dreams of becoming a super star for the typically depressing days of work at the hospital" :D

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Systemic

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of or pertaining to a system

"This systemic way of life only works for doctors."

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Ambivalent

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Uncertainty or fluctuation especially when caused by inability to make a choice or by simultaneous desire to say of two opposite or conflicting things

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Bruit

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To voice abroad, rumor

"Doctors have to bruit about each other to keep themselves happy"

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Ensconce

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To settle securely or snuggly

"Once the doctor had handed the newborn to the women she had ensconced it between her arms."

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Maladroit

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Unskilled; awkward; tactless

"The Doctor laughed at the maladroit intern his partner had brought in."

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Modulate

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to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften

"Doctors have to modulate the way they speak to patients about bad news every hour of the day."

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Persona

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A persons perceived or evident personality as that of a well known person

"The persona of a doctor is well misunderstood; they're actually very happy people. --Said no one ever."

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Quid Pro Quo

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One thing for another

"Dan the doctor knew it was quid pro quo in his decision to become a doctor over a super star."

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Salubrious

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Favorable to of promoting health, healthful

"The doctor recommends salubrious foods all the time, but he knows his patients don't care and continue to eat how they like anyways."

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Touchstone

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A test or criterion for the qualities of a thing

"Doctors have to take touchstones for their equipment all the time; one wrong mistake and the life of a human-being is at their fault."

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Vitiate

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To impair the quality of, make faulty or spoil

"If you're a doctor you don't want to be blamed for vitiating someone's health; it could ruin all of your hard work and self induced student debt."

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Beleaguer

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To surround with military force

"Guess who is always beleaguered first on the battlefield? Yup, doctors."

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Debauch

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to convert or pervert

"Over time, even the happiest doctors become debauched."

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Hedonism

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Devoting to pleasure as a way of life

Dr. Charlie Sheen

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Imbue

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To impregnate or inspire with feelings or options

"The best part about being a doctor is how easy it is to imbue someone with lies just for money."

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Lackluster

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Lacking brilliance or radiance, dull

synonym: doctor.

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Malcontent

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not satisfied of content with currently prevailing conditions or circumstances

"Doctors are normally malcontent with life, all the time, 24/7."

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Nepotism

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Patronage bestowed or favoritism showed on the basis of family relationship

"Doctors don't believe in nepotism at all; they strongly believe in going to a doctor you don't know."

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Pander

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A person who caters profits from the weakness of other

"Doctors literally pander people."

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Philistine

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A person who is lacking of indifferent to culture values; someone who is commonplace in ideas and taste

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Refractory

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hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient

"House, the doctor, is a truly refractory person."

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Abortive

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failing to succeed; unsuccessful

"If you don't become a doctor you are abortive."

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Ad hoc

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for the special purpose or end presently

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Bane

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a person or thing that ruins or spoils; a deadly weapon

"The second virtue to being a doctor is being able to be a bane."

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Bathos

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insincere emotion; sentimentalyt; mawkishness

"When a doctor tells you some bad news, you may think they're being nice, but actually they do it with so much bathos that it is nearly pure hatred."

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defacto

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in fact; in reality; actually existing;

Doctor:" The defacto of your sickness getting worse is so true, so palpable, that you should consider digging a hole right this second. To plant a flower in, of course."

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depredation

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the act or preying upon or plundering robbery; savage

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Dictum

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an authortiive pronouncement; soothill assertion

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harbinger

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Anything that foreshadows a future event; omen; event sign

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Lampoon

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a work or act, literature or the like ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society

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Malleable

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adaptable or tractable