Mastering Vocabulary- Chapter 11

Aesthetic

• Perform

• Giving an impression and connected with beauty or appreciation of beauty

• To think

• Air flow

Ingratiate

• to make someone like you by praising or trying to please them

• Famous

• Opportunity

• Costly

Vitriolic

• Filled with bitter or malice

• Friend

• Fortunate

• To begin

Virtuoso

• Guitar

• Violin

• Master performer, An expert in the arts

• Absence

Catalyst

• An event or person that causes great change

• Ocean

• Sky

• Fisherman

Propriety

• Correct moral behavior or actions, Appropriateness

• Building

• Roof

• Invisible

Disparage

• To be nice

• To criticize someone or something in a way that shows you do not respect or value him, her, or it: To belittle

• To repair

• To move quick

Insipid

• Not having a strong taste or flavor, Tasteless

• Onions

• Not having water

• To drink

Whimsical

• To run against

• To understand

• To move

• Odd, Unusual and strange in a way that might be funny or annoying

Peerless

• Unequaled, Unrivaled, Superior as to be without equal. Something better than any other of its type

• Gathered

• To speed

• Not having food