Anthropology

Zhiyu W. (China)
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  1. acclaim
    enthusiastic approval
  2. apprentice
    someone who works for an expert to learn a trade
  3. authentic
    not counterfeit or copied
  4. biographer
    someone who writes an account of a person's life
  5. cheerless
    causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
  6. choreographer
    someone who creates new dances
  7. critic
    a person engaged in the analysis and interpretation of art
  8. disciple
    one who believes and helps spread the doctrine of another
  9. eccentric
    conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
  10. emotive
    characterized by feeling
  11. erratic
    liable to sudden unpredictable change
  12. feminist
    a supporter of equal rights for women
  13. figurehead
    a leader in name only, without real power or authority
  14. genre
    a kind of literary or artistic work
  15. household
    a social unit living together in a residence
  16. humanitarian
    marked by devotion to popular welfare
  17. imagism
    a movement by American and English poets early in the 20th century in reaction to Victorian sentimentality; used common speech in free verse with clear concrete imagery
  18. lovelorn
    unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love
  19. mechanic
    a person who operates devices made to perform tasks
  20. minimalist
    a conservative advocating only minor reforms in government
  21. mortal
    subject to death
  22. nostalgia
    a longing for something past
  23. patriarchal
    of a social organization with the male as the head
  24. philanthropist
    someone who makes charitable donations
  25. posthumous
    occurring or coming into existence after a person's death
  26. precursor
    something indicating the approach of something or someone
  27. preeminent
    greatest in importance, degree, or significance
  28. prodigious
    great in size, force, extent, or degree
  29. proprietor
    someone who owns a business
  30. rigid
    incapable of or resistant to bending
  31. satirist
    a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm
  32. sculptor
    an artist who creates three-dimensional artwork
  33. symbolic
    relating to or using arbitrary signs
  34. territory
    a region marked off for administrative or other purposes
  35. versatile
    having great diversity or variety
  36. zigzag
    a shape with sharp turns in alternating directions
Created on Thu Jun 02 02:32:40 EDT 2011

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