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  • 51TITIAN — (d. 1576) Tiziano Vecellio was the most famous painter in sixteenth century Venice. His dynamic compositions, expressive brushwork, tonal and naturalistic color scheme, and use of color permeated with natural light influenced the develop­ment of… …

    Renaissance and Reformation 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary

  • 52ingenious, ingenuous, naïve — Ingenious means inventive, resourceful, talented, imaginative. Ingenuous means naïve, frank, unsophisticated, artless. Alex s suggested solution is ingenious. She is an ingenuous little child. Naïve (correctly spelled with a dieresis over the i… …

    Dictionary of problem words and expressions

  • 53Heian period — (794–1186)    The HEIAN period refers to the epoch in Japanese history extending from 794 to 1186, when the capital city was located in Heiankyō (modern day Kyoto). This early medieval period began when the emperor moved the capital from NARA,… …

    Encyclopedia of medieval literature

  • 54authenticity — Synonyms and related words: absolute realism, accomplished fact, actuality, artlessness, authoritativeness, bona fideness, calculability, canonicalness, canonicity, creativeness, creativity, dependability, factuality, fait accompli,… …

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  • 55candor — Synonyms and related words: accessibility, approachability, artlessness, austerity, baldness, bareness, big mouth, bluffness, bluntness, broadness, brusqueness, candidness, childlikeness, common speech, communicativeness, conversableness, cricket …

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  • 56directness — Synonyms and related words: Atticism, appropriateness, artlessness, austerity, baldness, bareness, bluffness, bluntness, broadness, brusqueness, candidness, candor, chasteness, chastity, childlikeness, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clear… …

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  • 57ease — Synonyms and related words: Atticism, Bohemianism, Easy Street, abandon, abate, abatement, abet, abundance, acceptance, adeptness, adroitness, advance, affability, affluence, aid, alienation, allay, allayment, alleviate, alleviation, allow for,… …

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  • 58frankness — Synonyms and related words: accessibility, approachability, artlessness, austerity, baldness, bareness, big mouth, bluffness, bluntness, broadness, brusqueness, candidness, candor, coarseness, common speech, communicativeness, conversableness,… …

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  • 59freedom — Synonyms and related words: arrogance, artlessness, audaciousness, audacity, authority, authorization, autonomy, bigheartedness, blank check, bluffness, bluntness, boldness, bounteousness, bountifulness, bounty, brass, brazenness, broadness,… …

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  • 60honesty — Synonyms and related words: absolute realism, artlessness, assured probity, authenticity, blamelessness, bluntness, bona fideness, candor, character, cleanness, conscientiousness, decency, dependability, directness, disinterestedness,… …

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