Vocab 5

1. camaraderie: good will between friends

2. cordial: friendly; sincere

3. facetious: playfully humorous

4. impinge: hinder; interfere with

5.. lament: express grief for; mourn

6. melancholy: sadness; depression

7. sanction: an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country

8. truncated: shortened; cut off

9. aesthetic: having to do with the appreciation of beauty

10. anthology: a collection of literary pieces

11. contemporary: current, modern; from the same time

12. dilettante: one with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge

13. eclectic: made up of a variety of sources or styles

14. excerpt: a selected part of a passage or scene

15. genre: describing a category or artistic endeavor

16. medley: an assortment or a mixture, especially of musical pieces

17. mural: a large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface

18. narrative: characterized by the telling of a story

19. narrative: a story

20. parody: an artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effec