Artwork, ascetic and ascribe [Vocabulario esencial de inglés]

Artwork [AHRT woerk]

1. a single work of art, or works or art, collectively 

• Leonardo daVinci´s Mona Lisa is an artwork that has withstood the rest of time.
• If you get to Paris, don´t miss the opportunity to check out the magnificent artwork that´s housed in the Louvre

Ascetic [uh SET ic]

1. self-denying, austere
2. a person who lives a life of rigorous self-denial for whatever purpose
3. anyone living with strict self-discipline and renouncing the usual conforts and pleasures

• Gandhi led an ascetic life, permiting himself few comforts
• The ascetic refused to buy chairs  with any kind of cushions or padding, lest he be thought of as pampering him self 

Ascribe [uhs KRYB] 

1. To credict to or blame something on a specific cause, event or person
2. To regard something as being the work of or belonging to someone

• Ascribe a purely economic motive to the present cultural studies ' boom ' .
• Ascribe as partner ( unto him )!
• Glorified be your lord, the lord of honor and power; exalted above what they falsely ascribe to him!
• Ascribe unto him no partner.
• Ascribe what they can do to the spirits of the dead.
• Ascribe meaning to an object with respect to the context in which it appears.
• Ascribed the meaning given to a house or a public building.
• Ascribed at birth.
• The effect is then wrongly ascribed to the alternative therapy.
• Ascribed in part to william shakespeare.
• Ascribing an intensional ontology is part of the work of creating cultural descriptions of agent communities.
• Ascribe the glory to christ alone.
• Traditionally ascribed to vyasa, it is the longest literary epic poem in the world.
• Ascribeise, ascribing an attribute to an anonymous subroutine results in a symbol table argument of ' anon ' .
• Ascribe significance to fundamental forms.
• Outstanding levels of performance in areas such as memory, chess, sports or music are commonly ascribed to innate talent.
• This might no doubt be partly ascribed to the stirring times then running their course.
• The origin of these numerous springs is usually ascribed to the geological formation of the district.

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