Collection 4: Musee des Beaux Arts

As you read W.H. Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 10's Collection 4: poems by Emily Dickinson, Coming to Our Senses, The Night Face Up, The Math Instinct, Musee des Beaux Arts
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Full list of words from this list:

words only definitions & notes
  1. suffering
    feelings of mental or physical pain
  2. old master
    a great European painter prior to 19th century
  3. reverent
    feeling or showing profound respect or veneration
  4. passionate
    having or expressing strong emotions
  5. miraculous
    peculiarly fortunate, as if by divine intervention
  6. dreadful
    very unpleasant
  7. martyrdom
    death because of a person's adherence of a faith or cause
  8. innocent
    free from evil or guilt
  9. instance
    clarify by giving an example of
  10. leisurely
    not hurried or forced
  11. disaster
    an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
  12. ploughman
    a man who plows
  13. forsake
    leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
  14. expensive
    high in price or charging high prices
  15. delicate
    exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing
Created on Tue Jul 15 00:19:41 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 24 11:33:01 EDT 2014)

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