Lesson 11 Flashcards

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Kind, gracious, gentle

Favorable not threatening

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Benign

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To increase in size, amount, or degree

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Augment

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A person with extensive knowledge, especially of the fine arts; a person of refined taste.

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Connoisseur

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To detect with the eyes
To understand or comprehend
To recognize as separate or different
Having good judgement perceptive

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Discern

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To make beautiful by adding decorative elements

To add fictitious details to.

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Embellish

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To carry out to preform
To create as a work of art
To put to death as a legal penalty

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Execute

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To illustrate by being an example of

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Exemplify

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So distorted or strange as to appear bizarre or comical.

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Grotesque

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Greatly respected holy, sacred

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Hallowed

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To assume the character or appearance of

To mimic

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Impersonate

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Showing ill will or hatred producing harm or evil

A feeling or expression of ill will.

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Malevolent

Malevolence

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Heavily and elaborately decorated

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Ornate

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12
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Having to do with shepards and herders

Relating to country life and often presented as charming or simple

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Pastoral

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Not safe or secure, dangerously uncertain

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Precarious

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Fame or honor

Famous; honored

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Renown

Renowned

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