An object made by human beings; often refers to a primitive tool or other relic from an earlier period.

without deceit or cunning; natural; simple. 2. Crude ignorant; uncultured.

To paint, draw, or express in a picture or sculpture. 2. To describe; to picture in words.

The chanting or speaking of words seeming to have magical power or used to create a magical power or used to create a magical spell.

A poem usually addressed to a particular person, object or event that has stimulated deep and noble feelings in the poet.

n. A humorous imitation of a piece of literature or music. v. To mimic a style, plot, or idea for comic effect.

A sharp-pointed tool for writing on waxen tablets. A picture or drawing representing words or ideas.

To take back a formal statement or belief previously made known.

Speech or writing expressing great pleasure or enthusiasm.

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VCR A Lesson 9

Lesson 9

Word	Definition	Sentence
artifact	An object made by human beings; often refers to a primitive tool or other relic from an earlier period.	In some distant future hula hoops and skateboards may become treasured artifacts.
artifice	craftiness; trickery	In the fable about a crow and a pitcher, the crow's artifice enables it to quench its thirst: it drops pebbles into the pitcher to raise the water level high enough to drink.
artless	without deceit or cunning; natural; simple. 2. Crude ignorant; uncultured.	Because Miranda, Prospero's daughter in Shakespheare's The Tempest, has lived all her life on a remote island, she is artless in the ways of the world.
artisan	A skilled craftsperson.	George Hepplewhite was such a superb artisan that his furniture is still prized more than two centuries later.
depict	To paint, draw, or express in a picture or sculpture. 2. To describe; to picture in words.	Jade Snow Wong depicts the life of a girl growing up in San Francisco's Chinatown in her autobiography, Fifth CHinese Daughter.
incantation	The chanting or speaking of words seeming to have magical power or used to create a magical power or used to create a magical spell.	The incantation,"Open, Sesame! )
ode	A poem usually addressed to a particular person, object or event that has stimulated deep and noble feelings in the poet.	Beginning his ode with the line, "O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being," Percy Bysshe Shelley expresses with admiration for the wind's swiftness and power and askes it to scatter the poet's words "among mankind."
parody	n. A humorous imitation of a piece of literature or music. v. To mimic a style, plot, or idea for comic effect.	Cartoonists sometimes parody contemporary political figures or events.
pictograph	A sharp-pointed tool for writing on waxen tablets. A picture or drawing representing words or ideas.	Pictographs on the walls of palaces in Yucatan have given archaeologists clues to Mayan mythology.
recant	To take back a formal statement or belief previously made known.	Although Galileo was convinced that the earth moves around the sun, he recanted this belief when it brought open conflict with the Catholic church.
rhapsody	Speech or writing expressing great pleasure or enthusiasm.	(blank)

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