Definitions
n. A false reason put forward to conceal the true one
What is pretext?
Paint
What is depict?
Serious, original work
What is a parody?
Ars, Artis <L.
What is "art"
Keegan's __________ of Mary Had a Little Lamb was terrifying.
What is parody?
n. Craftiness, trickery
What is artifice?
Good deeds
What is beneficence?
Useless
What is efficacious?
Aoide <G.
What is "song"
Emma creates interesting _________ about different people and situations, especially Capy.
What is odes?
n. An exact copy of a book, painting, document, etc
What is a facsimile?
An excuse
What is a pretext?
What is rhapsodic?
Facio, Factum, etc <L.
What is "to make"
Using the _________ of washing their hands, the boys conceal the real reasons they took a long time in the bathroom.
What is pretext?
v. To calm; to make gentler or softer in feeling
What is to mollify?
Take back
What is recant?
Clumsy
What is facile?
Texo, Texere, etc. <L. "to weave"
What is "to weave"
David often tries to _________ Ms. Dickison's concern by saying "It's okay, it's okay"
What is mollify?
n. Abnormal growth or outgrowth
What is excrescence?
Skill
What is artifice?
Decrease
What is accrue?
Crevi, Cretum, etc <L.
What is "to grow" / "to increase"
Ms. Dickison's stress __________ when she watches her beloved students leap off the hill in painful ways.
What is accrues?