NEO 3

Question 1

coin

Answer 1

to invent a new word or expression, or to use one in a particular way for the first time:
example: Vasari coins a word to describe the art made by the genius Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564) and other painters,

Question 2

reinvigorate

Answer 2

to make something stronger, or more exciting or successful again:
example: had already seen themselves as reinvigorators of the Greek and Roman p

Question 3

goldsmithing

Answer 3

someone who makes objects from gold
example: porcelain manufacture, goldsmithing,

Question 4

amateur

Answer 4

someone who does not have much skill in what they do:
example: d a growing split between professional and amateur,

Question 5

hindsight

Answer 5

the ability to understand an event or situation only after it has happened:
example: divisions between art and craft and learned and popular are more pronounced in hindsight than they were
at the time

Question 6

patron

Answer 6

a person or group that supports an activity or organization, especially by giving money:
example: but patrons carefully ordered
and paid enormous amounts for candlesticks, silver and gold tableware enamel or jewel-encrusted dishes,
embroidery (cloth with decorative needlework), and enormous tapestries,

Question 7

tapestry

Answer 7

a piece of cloth with a pattern or picture that is created by sewing or weaving different colored threads onto a special type of strong cloth:
example: but patrons carefully ordered
and paid enormous amounts for candlesticks, silver and gold tableware enamel or jewel-encrusted dishes,
embroidery (cloth with decorative needlework), and enormous tapestries,

Question 8

antiquity

Answer 8

the distant past (= a long time ago), especially before the sixth century:
example: their subjects from Greek and Roman antiquity

Question 9

conventions

Answer 9

a common way of showing something in art or writing:
example: attention to literary conventions (standard practices)

Question 10

pretensions

Answer 10

a claim or belief that you can succeed or that you are important or have serious value:
example: individuals participated in festivities involving all kinds of people that poked fun at their own intellectual
pretensions and satirized various forms of power and status

Question 11

satirized

Answer 11

to use satire to show that people or ideas have bad qualities or are wrong
example: individuals participated in festivities involving all kinds of people that poked fun at their own intellectual
pretensions and satirized various forms of power and status

Question 12

satire

Answer 12

a way of criticizing people or ideas in a humorous way, especially in order to make a political point, or a piece of writing that uses this style:

Question 13

salinity

Answer 13

the fact of containing salt of the amount of salt contained in something:
example: Species that can tolerate the salinity and temperature changes in estuaries

Question 14

dilution

Answer 14

the action of diluting : the state of being diluted
diluted: weakened or thinned by or as if by having been mixed with something else (such as water)
example: tissues and cells that tolerate the loss of salts through dilution

Question 15

permeable

Answer 15

If a substance is permeable, it allows liquids or gases to go through it:
example: Many estuarine animals have body surfaces that are less permeable
than those of purely marine forms

Question 16

crevice

Answer 16

a small, narrow crack or space, especially in the surface of rock
example: other sedentary animals and plants or buried in the small crevices between sediment particles