Vocabulary Lesson 9 & 10

George Hepplewhite was such a superb _________________ that his furniture is still prized more that two centuries later.

Pictographs of mythological creatures often show _____________________: extra faces, arms, or legs.

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.”

According to fable, the goddess Juno cannot _________________ the peacock, who frets because it lacks a pleasing voice to match its great beauty.

The parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning

To paint, draw, or express in a picture or sculpture

Example is always more _______________________ that precept.

_________________________ on the walls of palaces in Yucatan have given archaeologists clues to Mayan mythology.

A humorous imitation of a piece of literature or music

Speech or writing expressing great pleasure or enthusiasm

Many libraries have a _________________________ of the first printed edition of Shakespeare’s plays.

As the parade approached, the drum beat rose in deafening _______________________.

Doing good or causing good to be done; kindly action

A group or clique within a larger group, party, or government

Without deceit or cunning; natural; simple

To come as a natural increase or advantage