Vocabulary Unit 11 ENGLISH 11 American Gothic by Grant Wood

appallingly: ADV – horribly; offensively bulbous: ADJ – bulb-shaped; round communal: ADJ – shared by a community defiance: N – bold resistance to authority or force; open disregard deft: ADJ – skillful at something

despondent: ADJ – extremely depressed; despairing disconsolately: ADV – unhappily; cheerlessly disdainful: ADJ – with contempt; disrespectfully distinguished: ADJ – famous; elegant; dignified embrace: V – to clasp in the arms; to hug

embryo: N – an organism in its earliest stage of development formidable: ADJ – difficult; intimidating; causing fear or discouragement gloat: V – to feel triumphant satisfaction nonchalant: ADJ – indifferent; coolly unconcerned paragon: N – a model of excellence

refined: ADJ – elegant; polished; pure score: N – a period of twenty years superciliously: ADV – snobbishly timorously: ADV – fearfully; nervously voluptuous: ADJ – luxurious; full and shapely