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A humorous imitation of a piece of literature or music
Parody
A group or clique within a larger group, party, or government
Faction
The parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning
Context
Speech or writing expressing great pleasure or enthusiasm
Rhapsody
Without deceit or cunning; natural; simple
Artless
To paint, draw, or express in a picture or sculpture
Depict
To come as a natural increase or advantage
Accrue
Doing good or causing good to be done; kindly action
Beneficence
Pictographs of mythological creatures often show _____________________: extra faces, arms, or legs.
Excrescence
According to fable, the goddess Juno cannot _________________ the peacock, who frets because it lacks a pleasing voice to match its great beauty.
Mollify
_________________________ on the walls of palaces in Yucatan have given archaeologists clues to Mayan mythology.
Pictographs
Beginning his ________________ with the line, “O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being,”, Percy Bysshe Shelley expresses admiration for the wind’s swiftness and power and asks it to scatter the poet’s words “among mankind.”
Ode
George Hepplewhite was such a superb _________________ that his furniture is still prized more that two centuries later.
Artisan
As the parade approached, the drum beat rose in deafening _______________________.
Crescendo
Many libraries have a _________________________ of the first printed edition of Shakespeare’s plays.
Facsimile
Example is always more _______________________ that precept.
Efficacious
