# Art & Music **Type:** Topic **Words:** 381 ## About Painting, melody, design, performance, and creative work. ## Words by Level ### A1 - music — Sounds arranged in a pleasing way using melody, rhythm, and harmony.; frequency rank 358 - dance — To move your body in time to music.; frequency rank 621 - song — A short piece of music with words that you sing.; frequency rank 668 - piece — A part of something larger, or an amount broken or cut off.; frequency rank 686 - picture — A drawing, painting, or photograph of something or someone.; frequency rank 689 - club — A group of people who meet because they share an interest or activity.; frequency rank 834 - art — The making of things like paintings, drawings, or sculptures to be beautiful or express ideas.; frequency rank 987 - dancing — The activity of moving in time to music.; frequency rank 1475 - color — The quality of an object, such as red, blue, or green, that comes from the light it reflects.; frequency rank 1497 - draw — To make a picture or pattern with a pen, pencil, or similar tool.; frequency rank 1671 - painting — A picture made by applying paint to a surface.; frequency rank 1889 - design — A plan or drawing showing how something will be made or how it will work.; frequency rank 2549 - theater — A building where plays or films are shown.; frequency rank 2638 - concert — a public performance of music; frequency rank 2916 ### A2 - singing — The activity of making music with your voice.; frequency rank 1056 - image — A picture, photo, or representation of someone or something.; frequency rank 2078 - drama — A play for the theater, television, radio, or film, especially a serious one.; frequency rank 2838 - drawing — A picture made with a pen, pencil, or crayon.; frequency rank 3057 - rhythm — A regular pattern of strong and weak sounds or beats in music or speech.; frequency rank 4820 - gallery — A room or building where works of art are displayed.; frequency rank 4871 - portrait — A painting, drawing, or photograph of a person, especially the face and shoulders.; frequency rank 5779 - photography — The art and activity of taking photographs.; frequency rank 6307 - disco — A place or event where people dance to recorded pop music.; frequency rank 6583 - meter — A unit of length equal to 100 centimetres (US spelling of 'metre').; frequency rank 6852 - hip hop — A style of popular music with a strong rhythm and spoken or rapped lyrics.; frequency rank 7853 - drummer — a person who plays a drum or a drum kit; frequency rank 9648 - symphony — A long piece of music in several parts, usually written for a full orchestra.; frequency rank 10553 - lyric — The words of a song.; frequency rank 18637 - crayon — a small stick or pencil of colored wax, chalk, charcoal, or similar material used for drawing; frequency rank 26129 - classical music ### B1 - beat — To defeat someone in a game, contest, or fight.; frequency rank 653 - artist — A person who creates art, such as paintings or sculptures.; frequency rank 1852 - studio — A room where radio or television programmes, music, or films are made.; frequency rank 2192 - theme — The main subject or idea of a book, film, talk, or piece of art.; frequency rank 2292 - version — A particular form of something that differs from other forms of the same thing.; frequency rank 2915 - jazz — A style of music with African American roots, known for improvisation, swing, and strong rhythm.; frequency rank 3669 - poetry — Writing arranged in lines, often with rhythm or rhyme, that expresses feelings and ideas.; frequency rank 3947 - poem — A piece of writing arranged in lines, often with rhythm or rhyme, that expresses feelings or ideas.; frequency rank 4047 - visual — Relating to seeing or sight.; frequency rank 4744 - arrangement — A plan or agreement made so that something can happen.; frequency rank 5072 - recorder — a simple woodwind instrument played by blowing through a fipple and covering finger holes; frequency rank 8149 - bronze — A hard reddish-brown metal made by mixing copper and tin; frequency rank 9101 - sculpture — A work of art made by shaping material such as stone, wood, clay, or metal into a three-dimensional form.; frequency rank 9333 - critic — A person whose job is to give opinions about books, films, music, or art.; frequency rank 10381 - composition — the different parts or people that something is made up of; frequency rank 10651 - graphic — Very clear and detailed, especially in describing something unpleasant like sex or violence.; frequency rank 11586 - pianist — a person who plays the piano, especially professionally or with considerable skill; frequency rank 12906 - graphics — The visual images produced or displayed by a computer.; frequency rank 19261 - drumstick — a stick used for striking a drum or similar percussion instrument; frequency rank 32244 - easel — a stand or frame for supporting an artist's canvas or a display board ### B2 - opera — A dramatic play set to music in which the words are sung rather than spoken.; frequency rank 3757 - ballet — A graceful, classical form of dance, often performed to tell a story with music.; frequency rank 5645 - melody — A sequence of musical notes that forms a tune.; frequency rank 5988 - lyrics — The words of a song.; frequency rank 6871 - matching — Having the same design, colour, or appearance as something else.; frequency rank 7408 - verse — A group of lines that form one unit of a song or poem.; frequency rank 8132 - masterpiece — A work of art or skill that is outstanding and widely admired.; frequency rank 8199 - rehearse — to practise a play, piece of music, speech, or other performance before presenting it publicly; frequency rank 8354 - funky — Stylish and modern in an unusual, eye-catching way.; frequency rank 8371 - nightclub — A place that opens late at night where people go to drink, dance, and listen to music.; frequency rank 8426 - funk — A style of dance music with a strong rhythm, related to jazz and soul.; frequency rank 10604 - salsa — A spicy sauce made from tomatoes, onions, and chilli peppers, often eaten with Mexican food.; frequency rank 11549 - miniature — Much smaller than the usual size.; frequency rank 11911 - baton — a thin stick used by a conductor to direct an orchestra or choir; frequency rank 12647 - refrain — To stop yourself from doing something.; frequency rank 12931 - lullaby — a quiet, soothing song sung to help a baby or young child fall asleep; frequency rank 12998 - artwork — A painting, drawing, sculpture, or other piece of visual art.; frequency rank 13760 - genre — A particular type or style of art, literature, music, or film.; frequency rank 14590 - orchestral — Relating to an orchestra or to music played by one.; frequency rank 15045 - canon — A general rule or principle that is widely accepted in a field.; frequency rank 16498 - saxophone — a usually brass, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical tube and finger-operated keys; frequency rank 16838 - sculptor — an artist who creates sculpture by carving, modeling, casting, or assembling materials; frequency rank 17087 - mural — a large painting or other artwork made directly on a wall; frequency rank 19994 - reggae — A style of popular music from Jamaica with a strong, steady rhythm and a heavy bass.; frequency rank 20124 - trombone — a low-pitched brass instrument whose tube is usually lengthened and shortened with a movable slide; frequency rank 21904 - showbiz — The entertainment industry, including film, television, theatre, and music.; frequency rank 23090 - embroidery — the art or process of decorating fabric with patterns sewn in thread; frequency rank 24118 - mosaic — a picture or pattern made by arranging small pieces of colored stone, glass, tile, or another material; frequency rank 24176 - tambourine — a handheld frame drum, usually with small metal disks in its rim that jingle when shaken or struck; frequency rank 24228 - artistry — Great skill and creativity in art or another activity.; frequency rank 27685 - baritone — the adult male singing voice between tenor and bass in range; frequency rank 32395 - soloist — a musician who performs a solo; frequency rank 32500 - repaint — To paint something again, especially something painted before.; frequency rank 32867 - tuner — a person who adjusts a piano or other instrument to the correct pitch; frequency rank 40535 - cymbal — a round, slightly hollow metal percussion instrument that is struck with a stick or against another cymbal; frequency rank 41347 - needlework — the art or activity of sewing, embroidery, or other work done with a needle, especially by hand; frequency rank 44342 - impressionism — A style of painting that uses visible brushstrokes to capture light and ordinary scenes.; frequency rank 46434 - bassoon — a large double-reed woodwind instrument with a long folded tube, typically playing in the tenor and bass registers; frequency rank 46968 - graphically — In a very clear and detailed way, often about something unpleasant.; frequency rank 59751 - sepia — a dark reddish-brown color associated with old photographs and drawings; frequency rank 69700 - overtone — a musical or acoustic tone sounding above a fundamental tone as part of a complex sound; frequency rank 146418 - woodcarving — The art of cutting and shaping wood to make objects or decorations.; frequency rank 152030 - semitone — music: the smallest interval in the standard chromatic scale of Western music, equal to half a whole tone; frequency rank 155066 - martial art ### C1 - carol — a joyful song, especially a traditional religious song sung at Christmas; frequency rank 2762 - canvas — A strong, rough cloth used for tents, sails, bags, and shoes.; frequency rank 8364 - texture — The way a surface or material feels when you touch it.; frequency rank 11287 - masculine — (music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable; frequency rank 13186 - flourish — To grow or develop strongly and successfully.; frequency rank 13331 - encore — an extra or repeated performance given after the scheduled program, usually in response to applause; frequency rank 14078 - aesthetic — Relating to beauty or the appreciation of beautiful things.; frequency rank 17634 - jig — a lively traditional dance with quick steps and jumps, or the music for it; frequency rank 19123 - concerto — A piece of music written for one or more solo instruments and an orchestra.; frequency rank 20481 - presto — used to announce a sudden or seemingly magical result; frequency rank 21526 - tapestry — a thick woven textile with a picture or decorative design, especially one hung on a wall; frequency rank 21732 - palette — a thin board or other flat surface on which an artist arranges and mixes paints; frequency rank 22764 - calligraphy — the art or practice of producing beautiful, decorative handwriting; frequency rank 22932 - cadence — the rhythmic flow or pattern of sounds in speech, writing, or movement; frequency rank 26595 - fresco — the technique of painting with water-based pigment on fresh, damp plaster; frequency rank 27083 - falsetto — a male singing voice with artificially high tones in an upper register; frequency rank 29615 - evoke — To bring a feeling, memory, or image into someone's mind.; frequency rank 29930 - fanciful — Imagined rather than based on facts; unrealistic.; frequency rank 33734 - mandolin — a small plucked string instrument of the lute family, usually with four paired courses tuned like a violin; frequency rank 35059 - romanticism — the late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century movement in European art, literature, and music that emphasized imagination, emotion, individual experience, and nature; frequency rank 36033 - smartly — in a stylish manner; frequency rank 37100 - patchwork — the craft or method of sewing differently shaped pieces of fabric together into a larger design; frequency rank 37829 - artistically — In a skilful or creative way that shows artistic taste.; frequency rank 38796 - monogram — a design made by combining or interweaving a person's or organization's initials as an identifying mark; frequency rank 40696 - couplet — two successive lines of verse that form a unit, often sharing a meter and rhyme; frequency rank 41277 - diorama — a three-dimensional model or display of a scene, often with figures arranged before a painted background; frequency rank 43915 - croon — to sing or hum softly in a low, gentle, or sentimental voice; frequency rank 45969 - stencil — a thin sheet with letters, shapes, or a design cut from it, used to reproduce the pattern on another surface; frequency rank 47553 - warble — to sing with trills or rapid, smooth variations in pitch, like a bird; frequency rank 47873 - dramatize — to adapt a story or event for performance as a play, film, radio work, or television program; frequency rank 49211 - symphonic — relating to, written as, or characteristic of a symphony or symphony orchestra; frequency rank 49775 - timbre — The quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume.; frequency rank 57134 - inlay — to decorate a surface by setting pieces of another material into it; frequency rank 59118 - futurist — a person who studies current trends in order to forecast possible future developments; frequency rank 64072 - poetess — A woman who writes poetry.; frequency rank 65213 - poetical — Synonym of poetic.; frequency rank 67897 - trenchant — Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.; frequency rank 104007 - caricaturist — an artist or writer who creates caricatures by exaggerating distinctive features for comic, critical, or satirical effect; frequency rank 119074 - recitative — a speechlike style of singing in opera, oratorio, and related music, used especially to advance dialogue or narrative between more melodic passages; frequency rank 243970 - playact — to behave theatrically or pretend feelings or intentions that are not genuine; frequency rank 258630 ### C2 - piper — a musician who plays a pipe, flute, or especially bagpipes; frequency rank 5682 - madonna — an artistic representation of the Virgin Mary, especially with the infant Jesus; frequency rank 8274 - anthem — a song of praise, loyalty, or shared identity, especially for a nation, institution, or religious body; frequency rank 12057 - cupid — A putto carrying a bow and arrow, representing Cupid or love.; frequency rank 12219 - tempo — in music, the speed at which a composition is to be played; frequency rank 14040 - chime — a melodious ringing sound, or a set of tuned bells or metal bars that produces it; frequency rank 14049 - bugle — a simple brass instrument, usually without valves, used especially for military signals; frequency rank 14501 - carmine — a vivid purplish-red pigment or dye traditionally made from cochineal insects; frequency rank 15525 - choreography — The art of arranging the steps and movements of a dance.; frequency rank 16815 - soprano — the highest female voice; frequency rank 17797 - clarinet — A woodwind musical instrument that has a distinctive liquid tone whose characteristics vary among its three registers: chalumeau (low), clarion (medium), and altissimo (high).; frequency rank 19566 - handiwork — work done by hand, or an object made through manual skill; frequency rank 20286 - piccolo — a small transverse flute pitched an octave above the standard concert flute, with a bright, penetrating sound; frequency rank 21132 - ut — music: the original solfege name for the first note of a major scale, now usually called do; frequency rank 21859 - serenade — a song or musical performance given for someone, traditionally outdoors in the evening as an expression of love; frequency rank 22767 - fife — a small, high-pitched transverse flute, traditionally played with drums in military music; frequency rank 23018 - bard — a poet and singer in a Celtic tradition, especially one who composed verses celebrating heroes and notable events; frequency rank 23382 - vamp — a short, repeated, often improvised musical accompaniment or chord progression; frequency rank 23481 - sonata — a substantial musical composition for one instrument or a small group, usually arranged in several contrasting movements; frequency rank 23804 - hallmark — A distinguishing characteristic.; frequency rank 23848 - lute — a plucked string instrument with a rounded back, flat front, fretted neck, and usually a bent-back pegbox; frequency rank 23857 - baroque — In the highly decorated, dramatic style of European art and music of about 1600 to 1750.; frequency rank 25982 - dynamo — An electricity generator; a dynamo-electric machine.; frequency rank 26121 - debacle — An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.; frequency rank 26446 - figuratively — In a way that is meant as an image or comparison, not literally.; frequency rank 26900 - ode — a formal lyric poem, often addressed to and celebrating or reflecting on a person, event, object, or idea; frequency rank 27245 - coercion — Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.; frequency rank 27591 - minstrel — historical: a travelling musician, singer, poet, or storyteller, especially in medieval Europe; frequency rank 28124 - complacent — contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions; frequency rank 28617 - tarnish — To oxidize or discolor due to oxidation.; frequency rank 28884 - oboe — a high-pitched woodwind instrument with a narrow conical bore and a double reed, used especially in orchestras and chamber music; frequency rank 30467 - choral — relating to, written for, or performed by a choir or chorus; frequency rank 30936 - requiem — a Christian Mass or other service for the repose of the dead; frequency rank 31477 - ragtime — a style of music, especially for piano, with a strongly syncopated melody over a steady rhythm; frequency rank 31478 - pungent — strong and sharp; frequency rank 31972 - bijou — a small jewel, ornament, or finely made decorative object; frequency rank 32082 - figurine — a small sculpted or moulded representation of a person, animal, or imaginary figure, often made as an ornament or collectible; frequency rank 32525 - holistic — Relating to a study of the whole instead of a separation into parts.; frequency rank 33032 - ditty — a short, simple song or verse, especially one that is light or easy to remember; frequency rank 33268 - crescendo — a gradual increase in loudness, in music; frequency rank 33804 - organist — a person who plays an organ; frequency rank 33924 - fantasia — a free-form instrumental composition, often weaving together several themes; frequency rank 35049 - rhapsody — an intensely enthusiastic or emotional expression in speech or writing; frequency rank 35833 - placate — To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that they become content or at least no longer irate.; frequency rank 35972 - harpsichord — a keyboard instrument in which pressing a key plucks a string, producing a bright, crisp tone; frequency rank 36843 - troubadour — a medieval lyric poet and musician, especially one composing in Occitan and singing of courtly love; frequency rank 36969 - cathartic — Purgative; inducing mental or physical catharsis.; frequency rank 37794 - posthumous — occurring or coming into existence after a person's death; frequency rank 38042 - bagpipe — a wind instrument whose pipes are sounded from air stored in a bag, usually referred to in the plural as bagpipes; frequency rank 38634 - trill — a rapid alternation between two adjacent musical notes; frequency rank 40072 - tableau — a striking, vivid, or dramatic scene; frequency rank 40377 - orchestrate — to plan, coordinate, and direct the parts of a complex event or operation so they produce a desired result; frequency rank 40391 - statuette — a small statue or sculpted figure, especially one made as an ornament, study, or collectible; frequency rank 41864 - minuet — a slow, formal dance in triple time that was fashionable in European courts during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; frequency rank 42937 - pirouette — a rapid complete turn of the body on one foot or on the toes, especially in ballet; frequency rank 44317 - diminutive — very small; frequency rank 45020 - harmonium — a small keyboard instrument whose free reeds are sounded by air supplied through bellows; frequency rank 45435 - mangle — To damage something badly by crushing, tearing, or twisting it.; frequency rank 45789 - cancan — a lively French stage dance performed with high kicks, traditionally by a chorus line; frequency rank 46448 - languish — become feeble; frequency rank 47258 - dilate — become wider; frequency rank 47683 - etching — The art of cutting a design into a metal plate with acid so prints can be made from it.; frequency rank 49895 - inimitable — Beyond imitation, surpassing all others; matchless.; frequency rank 51050 - concertina — a small free-reed musical instrument with bellows between two end boards, played by pressing buttons while expanding and compressing it; frequency rank 51681 - gamut — A (normally) complete range.; frequency rank 51836 - dichotomy — The division of a class into two disjoint subclasses that are together comprehensive, as the division of human into female and male.; frequency rank 52577 - nocturne — a gentle, lyrical, or dreamlike musical composition suggestive of night, especially one for solo piano; frequency rank 52930 - harmonics — the study of musical sounds, harmony, and their acoustic relationships; frequency rank 53324 - arabesque — an intricate decorative design of interlacing lines, scrolling foliage, or geometric forms, especially in Islamic and Renaissance art; frequency rank 53914 - perpetrate — perform an act, usually with a negative connotation; frequency rank 55084 - exacerbate — To make worse (a problem, bad situation, negative feeling, etc.).; frequency rank 55346 - idyll — a simple poem or prose work portraying pastoral life or a peaceful, contented scene; frequency rank 56328 - jejune — lacking in nutritive value; frequency rank 56727 - modulate — change the key of, in music; frequency rank 57385 - zither — a stringed instrument with many strings stretched across a flat, usually horizontal soundbox and played by plucking or strumming; frequency rank 63254 - virtuosity — Outstanding technical skill, especially in music or art.; frequency rank 64548 - lilt — a jaunty rhythm in music; frequency rank 65304 - chassé — a gliding dance step in which one foot moves to the side and the other closes to it; frequency rank 65314 - martinet — A strict disciplinarian.; frequency rank 65521 - cantata — a work for one or more singers with instrumental accompaniment, typically arranged in several movements; frequency rank 65988 - iambic — composed of or characterized by iambs, metrical feet in which an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed one; frequency rank 66685 - sallow — cause to become a sickly pale color; frequency rank 67261 - satiate — To fill to satisfaction; to satisfy.; frequency rank 67529 - meritocracy — Rule by merit and talent.; frequency rank 68156 - poseur — One who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.; frequency rank 68326 - portraiture — The art or practice of making portraits in painting or photography.; frequency rank 68981 - fulminate — come on suddenly and intensely; frequency rank 69100 - elegy — A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.; frequency rank 69821 - brushwork — an artist's technique or characteristic manner of applying paint with a brush; frequency rank 71826 - expiate — make amends for; frequency rank 71957 - typography — the craft of composing type and printing from it; frequency rank 73270 - pianoforte — the full or historical name for a piano, a keyboard instrument whose hammers strike strings and whose volume varies with the player's touch; frequency rank 73800 - dross — Worthless or trivial matter.; frequency rank 74433 - tuneless — lacking a recognizable or pleasing melody; not tuneful; frequency rank 75417 - dactyl — a metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables, or one long syllable followed by two short ones; frequency rank 76389 - waxwork — a lifelike figure or effigy modeled in wax; frequency rank 76686 - bourdon — a continuous low drone or bass tone, especially one produced by a bagpipe, hurdy-gurdy, or similar instrument; frequency rank 76975 - statuary — statues considered collectively; frequency rank 77339 - sartorial — Of or relating to the tailoring of clothing.; frequency rank 77533 - fleur-de-lis — a stylized three-petalled flower used as a heraldic charge and decorative emblem, especially associated with the French monarchy; frequency rank 78112 - quatrain — a stanza or complete poem consisting of four lines; frequency rank 78538 - cubist — an artist who works in the style of cubism; frequency rank 78688 - pianola — a piano that plays music mechanically from instructions recorded on a perforated paper roll; frequency rank 83715 - oscillate — To swing back and forth, especially if with a regular rhythm.; frequency rank 86046 - incise — To cut into a surface with a sharp tool, especially to carve or engrave a design.; frequency rank 87238 - basso — low and deep in pitch, especially of a male voice; frequency rank 87691 - chromatic — relating to color or to differences in color; frequency rank 88772 - rub-a-dub — the repeated beating or sound of a drum; a continuous rhythmic drumming; frequency rank 89768 - hornpipe — a lively traditional solo dance associated especially with sailors; frequency rank 91352 - arpeggio — the notes of a chord played one after another rather than simultaneously; frequency rank 93311 - oratorio — a large musical work for orchestra, choir, and solo voices, usually on a sacred subject and performed without staging, costumes, or scenery; frequency rank 93780 - rapprochement — The reestablishment of cordial relations, particularly between two countries; a reconciliation.; frequency rank 93934 - dulcimer — a stringed instrument with strings stretched over a usually trapezoidal soundboard and struck with small hammers; frequency rank 93988 - viol — a member of a family of fretted bowed string instruments, usually with six strings and held vertically, prominent in European music from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries; frequency rank 95443 - stipple — to draw, paint, engrave, or shade using many small dots or short marks; frequency rank 95774 - odalisque — historical: an enslaved female attendant in an Ottoman palace or harem; in Western writing, often inaccurately treated as a concubine; frequency rank 99869 - contralto — the lowest standard female singing voice, below mezzo-soprano; frequency rank 100006 - lithograph — a print made by lithography, in which an image is drawn on a prepared flat surface and transferred to paper; frequency rank 100700 - diffident — lacking self-confidence; frequency rank 101682 - plectrum — a small flat piece of plastic, metal, or other material used to pluck the strings of an instrument; frequency rank 103319 - polyphonic — in music, consisting of two or more independent melodic lines sounding together; frequency rank 104016 - chiaroscuro — the artistic use of strong contrasts between light and dark to model form or create dramatic effect; frequency rank 104450 - undulate — increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves; frequency rank 105645 - tremolo — a musical effect made by rapidly repeating one note or alternating between two notes; frequency rank 107637 - epigram — A short, witty or pithy poem.; frequency rank 109139 - pre-raphaelite — a member or follower of the nineteenth-century Pre-Raphaelite movement in British art; frequency rank 109538 - concomitant — Something happening or existing at the same time.; frequency rank 109644 - busk — to perform music or another form of entertainment in a public place for voluntary donations; frequency rank 116056 - lacerate — irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn; frequency rank 118151 - roundelay — a song in which a line or phrase is repeated as the refrain; frequency rank 119760 - equivocate — To render equivocal or ambiguous.; frequency rank 125724 - risible — Of or pertaining to laughter; frequency rank 134933 - tragedian — an actor who specializes in tragic roles; frequency rank 136374 - danseuse — dated: a female professional dancer, especially a ballet dancer; frequency rank 143489 - clavichord — an early keyboard instrument whose strings are struck by small metal blades, producing a soft, expressive sound; frequency rank 143558 - extirpate — To cause a population to go extinct in a particular region, but not across the entire range of the species or subspecies.; frequency rank 145108 - annotation — A critical or explanatory commentary or analysis.; frequency rank 146740 - impasto — painting: the technique of applying paint thickly enough for brush or palette-knife marks to remain visibly raised; frequency rank 151635 - lapidary — of or relating to precious stones or the art of working with them; frequency rank 152549 - quaver — in British musical terminology, a note with half the time value of a crotchet; an eighth note; frequency rank 170537 - consonance — agreement or compatibility between opinions, principles, qualities, or actions; frequency rank 179060 - capriccio — music: a lively, freely formed instrumental composition with a fanciful or improvisatory character; frequency rank 183084 - excoriate — To strongly condemn or criticize.; frequency rank 185873 - poesy — literary: poetry, especially considered as an art or body of writing; frequency rank 186659 - diapason — a full, rich outpouring or range of musical sound; also a principal organ stop; frequency rank 195879 - recapitulation — The symmetry provided by Christ's life to the teachings of the Old Testament; the summation of human experience in Jesus Christ.; frequency rank 197697 - tracery — ornamental stone, wood, or metalwork forming interlacing ribs or branching patterns, especially in a window; frequency rank 197844 - allusive — characterized by indirect references; frequency rank 206665 - castanet — one of a pair of small shell-shaped percussion instruments clicked together by the fingers, especially in Spanish dance; frequency rank 212059 - dithyramb — an ancient Greek choral hymn sung with passionate intensity in honor of Dionysus; frequency rank 214744 - arriviste — An upstart or newcomer; nouveau riche; parvenu; an ambitious, brash or arrogant person who has yet to integrate with his or her new social group.; frequency rank 218969 - marquetry — the decorative craft of fitting thin pieces of differently colored wood, shell, metal, or other veneer into a surface to form a design; frequency rank 219389 - footlight — a stage light positioned along the front edge of a stage and directed upward at the performers; frequency rank 244510 - inharmonious — lacking pleasing musical harmony; discordant; frequency rank 269402 - harlequinade — a comic theatrical entertainment featuring Harlequin and other stock characters, especially the concluding section of a traditional British pantomime; frequency rank 283263 - sybarite — A person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a hedonist.; frequency rank 293205 - gamboge — a yellow to orange gum resin from Southeast Asian Garcinia trees, formerly used as a pigment and purgative; frequency rank 295029 - taille — A form of taxation levied on the land of peasants in pre-Revolutionary France.; frequency rank 295031 - metrical — Relating to birth certificates.; frequency rank 301284 - sforzando — music: played or marked with a sudden, forceful emphasis; frequency rank 303382 - mephitic — Foul-smelling or noxious, particularly of a gas or atmosphere.; frequency rank 317876 - truncate — terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; frequency rank 345491 - emblazon — to display, write, or depict something prominently on a surface; frequency rank 393607 - putto — a painted or sculpted figure of a small, usually naked and often winged boy, especially in Renaissance or Baroque art; frequency rank 394028 - eclogue — a short pastoral poem, often presented as a monologue or dialogue between shepherds; frequency rank 394693 - idyl — a short poem or prose piece depicting peaceful rural or pastoral life; frequency rank 405165 - villanelle — a nineteen-line poem with five three-line stanzas and a final four-line stanza, using two repeating refrains and two rhymes; frequency rank 429030 - bandsman — a musician who plays in a band, especially a brass or military band; frequency rank 431031 - plangent — loud and resounding; frequency rank 443694 - cantatrice — a professional female singer, especially an opera singer; frequency rank 468957 - threnody — a song, poem, or other composition expressing grief or mourning, especially for someone who has died; frequency rank 473982 - caryatid — a sculpted female figure used as an architectural support in place of a column or pillar; frequency rank 532362 - tessellated — covered or decorated with small tiles or pieces fitted together in a mosaic pattern; frequency rank 591355 - hautboy — archaic: an oboe or an early form of that treble double-reed woodwind instrument; frequency rank 654699 - mezzotint — a printmaking technique in which a metal plate is roughened to print dark tones and then scraped or burnished to create lighter areas; frequency rank 687701 - versify — to compose poetry or write in verse; frequency rank 735236 - choreographical — Relating to choreography or the arranging of dance movements.; frequency rank 991164 - anapaest — prosody: a metrical foot of three syllables in which two unstressed syllables are followed by one stressed syllable; frequency rank 1104401 - oleograph — a color lithograph made to imitate the appearance of an oil painting; frequency rank 1108377 - Jew's harp — a small plucked instrument held against the teeth or lips, whose flexible tongue vibrates while the player's mouth changes the tone; frequency rank 1150854 - paeon — a metrical foot of four syllables with one long or stressed syllable and three short or unstressed syllables; frequency rank 1180350 - seriocomic — combining serious and comic elements, subjects, or moods; frequency rank 1292169 - lacquerwork — decorative or artistic work made by applying, carving, painting, or inlaying layers of lacquer; frequency rank 1402247 - dithyrambic — wildly or extravagantly enthusiastic in expression; frequency rank 1431309 - sceneshifter — a stagehand who moves or changes theatrical scenery during a performance; frequency rank 1438521 - palette knife — a blunt, flexible, flat-bladed artist's tool used to mix colors on a palette and sometimes to apply or remove paint - crow quill — a quill from a crow's wing, especially one cut into a fine writing or drawing pen - trochee — a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable, or a long syllable followed by a short one - tetrachord — in music theory, a series of four notes spanning the interval of a perfect fourth - harmonist — a musician or composer skilled in creating, performing, or analyzing harmony - trompe-l’oeil — an artistic technique that uses realistic detail to create the illusion that painted objects are three-dimensional - photogravure — an intaglio printing process that transfers a photographic image to an etched plate, or a print made by that process - inkstick — a solid block of ink that is rubbed on an inkstone with water for East Asian calligraphy or painting ### C2+ - renaissance — Any similar artistic or intellectual revival.; frequency rank 11235 - temperance — Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence.; frequency rank 22931 - treble — three times as great or many; frequency rank 30073 - unearth — bring to light; frequency rank 33126 - pursuant — That pursues.; frequency rank 36723 - saturate — To cause to become completely permeated with, or soaked (especially with a liquid).; frequency rank 60518 - self-styled — as claimed by and for yourself often without justification; frequency rank 61751 - mendicant — practicing beggary; frequency rank 66970 - suppliant — humbly entreating; frequency rank 130666 - factitious — not produced by natural forces; frequency rank 198216 - macerate — soften, usually by steeping in liquid, and cause to disintegrate as a result; frequency rank 218096 - emaciate — grow weak and thin or waste away physically; frequency rank 349835 - maculate — To spot; to stain; to blur.; frequency rank 448866 - first-nighter — a person who regularly attends the opening nights of plays or other theatrical productions; frequency rank 469010 - duet — a musical composition or performance for two performers - bop — to hit lightly; to dance to popular music; a style of jazz - graphical — relating to visual art or to vivid, detailed depiction - accompaniment — something that accompanies, especially music supporting a soloist - docent — a guide who leads tours and explains exhibits at a museum or gallery - suspire — to breathe out or sigh; to draw breath - thespian — an actor or actress; relating to drama and the theatre - cakewalk — something easily accomplished; a strutting dance of African American origin - joss — a Chinese idol or cult image; luck or fortune - abstractionist — an artist who works in abstract forms rather than representation - artiste — a professional performing artist, especially a singer, dancer, or entertainer - cartography — the science and art of making maps - cartoonist — an artist who draws cartoons or comic strips - chorus — a group of singers, or a refrain repeated in a song - coincidental — happening by chance rather than by design - dirge — a mournful song or lament for the dead - educe — to draw out or elicit something latent - horticulture — the art and science of cultivating gardens, fruits, vegetables, and flowers - instrumentation — the arrangement of music for instruments, or the set of instruments used in a system - masterwork — a masterpiece; the finest work an artist or craftsman produces - modernistic — characteristic of modern styles or modernism, especially in art and design - musically — in a manner relating to or resembling music - nonhomogeneity — lack of uniformity in composition or structure - nonmusical — not relating to or involving music; unmusical - poetic — relating to or having the qualities of poetry - theatric — relating to the theatre or exaggerated, dramatic display - tuneful — having a pleasant melody; melodious - wizardry — the art or practice of magic, or great skill in some activity - choregus — in ancient Greece, a wealthy citizen who financed and supervised a chorus for a public dramatic or musical performance - clarin — historical: a very long, trumpetlike wind instrument of Indigenous Mexico; the acocotl type is sounded by drawing air inward through its mouthpiece - rhapsodist — a reciter or interpreter of epic or other poetry; a rhapsode - alto-relievo — high relief: sculpture in which figures project strongly from the background - panharmonic — music: adapted to, employing, or ranging across all harmonies or musical modes - canzonet — a short, light song or a brief lyrical composition - melodeum — historical, music: a small keyboard reed organ; a rare form related to melodeon - teponaztli — a hollow wooden slit drum of central Mexico, especially associated with Aztec and related cultures, sounded by striking two carved tongues - fiddlebow — a bow used to sound the strings of a fiddle or violin - enchase — historical: to set a gemstone or another ornament into a mounting - entr'acte — an interval between two acts of a play, opera, or other theatrical performance - terribilità — art history: an awe-inspiring expression of powerful will, grandeur, and formidable or angry force, especially associated with Michelangelo's work