week 17

A.  In-class Notes

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life.

Johannes Vermeer 

Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life.

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Girl with a Pearl Earring is an oil painting by 17th-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It is a tronie of a girl with a headscarf and a pearl earring.

Movie time: Girl with a Pearl Earring

Sept. 20, 2001 - Bush Declares War on Terror

B.  1100 Words You Need to Know

benevolent (a.)- kind and helpful

pariah (n.)- social outcast

guise (n.)- the appearance of someone or something, especially when intended to deceive

iniquity (n.)- a very wrong and unfair action or situation

ameliorate (v.)- to make a bad or unpleasant situation better

profuse (a.)- produced or given in large amounts

deluge (n.)- a very large amount of rain or water

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carnage (n.)- the violent killing of large numbers of people, especially in war

excoriate (v.)- to write or say that a play, book, political action

nullify (v.)- to make nothing

appalled (v.)- shocked

corpulent (a.)- fat

emissary (n.)- a scout, a spy

decapitate (v.)- to cut off the head of a person

ascertain (v.)- to discover something

burgeon (v.)- to develop or grow quickly

derive (v.)- to get something from something else

encomium (n.)- discriminating expression of approval