Vocabulary Lesson 11

Augment means to

• To detect with the eyes.

• To make beautiful by adding decorative elements.

• To add fictitious details to.

• To increase in size, amount, or degree.

Kind, gracious, gentle.

• benign

• grotesque

• hallowed

• pastoral

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

• malevolent

• Mr. Oransky

• Connoisseur

• renown

Kind, gracious, gentle

• hallowed

• benign

• ornate

• pastoral

Discern means

• To detect with the eyes.

• To understand or comprehend.

• To recognize as separate or different.

• All of the above

To make beautiful by adding decorative elements.

• discern

• embellish

• execute

• exemplify

To add fictitious details to.

• execute

• discern

• embellish

• impersonate

Execute means

• To carry out; to perform.

• To create, as a work of art.

• To put to death as a legal penalty.

• All of the above

To illustrate by being an example of.

• exemplify

• embellish

• execute

• discern

Grotesque means

• Showing ill will or hatred; producing harm or evil.

• So distorted or strange that as to appear bizarre or comical.

• Greatly respected; holy; sacred.

• Heavily and elaborately decorated.