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Enhancing Creativity: Exploring Ostentatious Caricatures

Dive into the world of exaggerated caricatures and learn how artists enhance features to captivate audience attention. Discover the implicit messages conveyed through ostentatious displays.

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Enhancing Creativity: Exploring Ostentatious Caricatures

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  1. Unit 12Level F

  2. Absolve • Verb • Definition: to clear from blame, responsibility, or guilt • Synonyms: acquit, exonerate, vindicate, excuse, pardon • Antonyms: condemn, convict, incriminate • Sentence: O.J. Simpson was found not guilt and was absolved from any responsibility in the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

  3. Caricature Noun or Verb Definition: (n.) a drawing in which the subject’s characteristic features are exaggerated. (v.) to present someone or something in a distorted way. Synonyms: (n.) cartoon, burlesque, lampoon Sentence: Caricature artists will exaggerate a subjects features as in this example of rocker Steven Tyler.

  4. Contiguous • Adjective • Definition: side by side, touching ; near; adjacent in time • Synonyms: abutting, next door to • Antonyms: detached, apart, distant, remote • Sentence: The “lower 48 states” are contiguous because all states touch and are side by side, only Alaska and Hawaii are detached form the original 48 states.

  5. Enhance • Verb • Definition: to raise to a higher degree; to increase the value or desirability of • Synonyms: improve, elevate • Antonyms: diminish, degrade • Sentence: Often body builders will train and use supplements such as steroids to enhance their bodies and increase their muscles.

  6. Enthrall • Verb • Definition: to captivate, charm, hold spellbound; to enslave; to imprison • Synonyms: fascinate, attract • Antonyms: bore to tears, repel • Sentence: Cats are often captivated by a mouse, enthralled and spellbound just waiting for a chance to pounce.

  7. Implicit Adjective Definition: implied or understood though unexpressed; without doubts or reservations, unquestioning; potentially contained in Synonyms: inferred, unspoken, unconditional Antonyms: explicit, expressed, stated, revealed Sentence: Maxine never said so, but it was implicit that she did not like conversation before she had her morning coffee leaving no doubt that everyone should stay away from her.

  8. incisive • Adjective • Definition: Sharp, keen, penetrating (with a suggestion of decisiveness and effectiveness) • Synonyms: acute, cutting, perceptive • Sentence: Magnetic in personality, incisive and perceptive, Joel Osteen is a popular evangelical minister to millions of people around the world.

  9. Ostentatious • Adjective • Definition: marked by conspicuous or pretentious display, showy • Synonyms: flashy, overdone, flamboyant • Antonyms: modest, plain, simple, demure • Sentence: Flamboyant celebrities often enjoy wearing flashy jewelry in an ostentatious display of their wealth.

  10. Paraphrase • Adjective • Definition: (v.) to restate in other words; (n.) a statement that presents a given idea in new language • Synonyms: Rephrase, rewrite • Antonyms: direct quotation • Sentence: To avoid a charge of plagiarism and a grade of an “F” on an assignment, one should paraphrase or restate in other words and use a citation instead of copying information directly.

  11. Redundant • Adjective • Definition: extra, excess, more than is needed; wordy, repetitive; lush • Synonyms: unnecessary, superfluous • Antonyms: terse, scarce, inadequate • Sentence: The redundant and excessive use of signs made it clear to all motorists that no one should make a U turn.

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