For the Week ending 05/25/12
Directions: Choose the word that matches with the definition and appropriately fits into the blank space in the sentence.
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depiction of an urban scene
The _______ was a granite-and-glass mountain range, all glistening peaks and shadowy valleys of ceaseless life, a throbbing, pulsating, never-resting free-for-all of people and ideas and stories just screaming to be told." |
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depiction of a fantasy world or figments of dreams
They called the Bushmen's holiest ceremony a trance dance and saw them entering a kind of _______. |
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image of a sacred or sanctified Christian personage, traditionally used and venerated in the Eastern Church; picture on a screen that represents a specific file, directory, window, option, or program
Seeing the astonishing outpouring of grief and celebration shows us that he was the dictionary definition of the word _______: "a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol of something." |
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altarpiece (devotional image in a church) with more than three panels
A central panel with two wings is a triptych; an altarpiece with one central panel and several side panels or wings is a _______. |
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night scene; instrumental composition of a pensive, dreamy mood, especially one for the piano
A _______ is a work of art or a piece of music inspired by, or evocative of, the night. |