| Question | Answer |
| person who provides financial support for the arts | patron |
| intellectual movement at the heart of the renaissance that focused on wordly views rather than religious issues | humanism |
| study of subjects taught in the ancient Greece and Rome, such as grammar, rhetoric poetry, and history | humanities |
| artistic technique used to give drawings and paintings a three-dimensional effect | perspective |
| art form in which an artist etches a design on a metal plate with acid and then uses the plate to make multiple prints | engraving |
| everyday language of ordinary people | vernacular |
| ideal society | utopia |
| in the roman catholic church, pardon for sins committed during a persons lifetime | indulgence |
| give up ones views or beliefs | recant |
| idea that god long ago determined who will gain salvation | predestination |
| government run by religious leaders | theocracy |
| cancel or invalidate | annul |
| recognize one as a saint | canonize |
| acceptable middle ground | compromise |
| person, group, or thing forced to take the blame for the crimes or mistakes of others | scapegoat |
| seperate section of a city where members of a minority group are forced to live | ghetto |
| based on the belief that the sun is the center of the universe | heliocentric |
| possible explanation | hypothesis |
| painstaking method used to confirm findings and to prove or disprove a hypothesis | scientific method |
| force that tends to pull on mass of object toward another | gravity |
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Biology Lab Midterm
