Getting Meaning From Context

Use the reading to help you answer these questions about vocabulary.

1		The Venus of Willendorf has full breasts, a protruding fleshy stomach, and plump legs. Some think the name "Venus" may have been meant ironically, as Venus was the classical goddess of beauty and love and was traditionally tall and slender, modestly covering her breasts and pubic area. What part of speech is ironically? Are the Venus of Willendorf and the classical Venus similar? Do they have the same name? What does ironically mean?
2		The seventeenth-century Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens is also famous for his plump, curvaceous women. Rubens's nude female figures generally had plenty of flesh and cellulite (a type of fat that looks like dimples, or indentations, in the skin). What part of speech is plump? What is the opposite of plump? What does plump mean?
3		When he showed these photos to his Vogue editor, Alexander Liberman, and to the famous photographer Edward Steichen, neither saw the beauty in them, and Penn stored them away. Fifty years later, however, Penn's forgotten nudes are resurfacing at an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, one of the most important museums in the world. What part of speech is resurfacing? Did Penn publicly show his nude photos right away? How long were the nudes "forgotten"? What does resurfacing mean?