Lesson 4 Vocabulary: Definition Matching (1-5)

Use the context clues in the paragraph below to help you match each vocabulary word to its correct definition:

Classical ballet has not become (obsolete); however, it has faced many competing styles in the world of serious dance. Some of the new forms of dance were as strange to lovers of classical dance as (abstract) art is to people who prefer representational art. These critics called the new dance forms ugly, even grotesque, especially when a dancer would (distort), or twist, her body in an uncommon way. They believed that modern dance could not begin to equal classical dance—that it was clearly (inferior). In the 1920’s when Isadora Duncan was developing her free and expressive style, she was very (controversial). Not everyone approved.