Lesson 11 Flashcards
Kind, gracious, gentle
Favorable not threatening
Benign
To increase in size, amount, or degree
Augment
A person with extensive knowledge, especially of the fine arts; a person of refined taste.
Connoisseur
To detect with the eyes
To understand or comprehend
To recognize as separate or different
Having good judgement perceptive
Discern
To make beautiful by adding decorative elements
To add fictitious details to.
Embellish
To carry out to preform
To create as a work of art
To put to death as a legal penalty
Execute
To illustrate by being an example of
Exemplify
So distorted or strange as to appear bizarre or comical.
Grotesque
Greatly respected holy, sacred
Hallowed
To assume the character or appearance of
To mimic
Impersonate
Showing ill will or hatred producing harm or evil
A feeling or expression of ill will.
Malevolent
Malevolence
Heavily and elaborately decorated
Ornate
Having to do with shepards and herders
Relating to country life and often presented as charming or simple
Pastoral
Not safe or secure, dangerously uncertain
Precarious
Fame or honor
Famous; honored
Renown
Renowned