| A | B |
|---|
| affable | easy-going; friendly |
| amenable | responsive; agreeable |
| camaraderie | good will between friends |
| cordial | friendly; sincere |
| facetious | playfully humorous |
| impinge | hinder; interfere with |
| lament | express grief for; mourn |
| melancholy | sadness; depression |
| sanction | an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country |
| truncated | shortened; cut off |
| aesthetic | having to do with the appreciation of beauty |
| anthology | a collection of literary pieces |
| contemporary | current, modern; from the same time |
| dilettante | one with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge |
| eclectic | made up of a variety of sources or styles |
| excerpt | a selected part of a passage or scene |
| genre | describing a category or artistic endeavor |
| medley | an assortment or a mixture, especially of musical pieces |
| mural | a large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface |
| narrative | characterized by the telling of a story |
| parody | an artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect |
| realism | artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy |
| virtuoso | a tremendously skilled artist |
