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| androgynous | someone who looks both male and female |
| anthropology | the scientific study of people, societies, and cultures |
| animate | living |
| inanimate | not living |
| artisan | someone who does skilled work with their hands |
| artifact | an object that was made a long time ago, especially one studied by scientists |
| artificial | not made of natural materials or substances, but made by people |
| articulate | able to talk easily, clearly, and effectively about things, especially about difficult subjects |
| aquatic | living or growing in water |
| aquarium | clear glass or plastic container for fish and other water animals |
| aqueduct | a structure that carries water over a river or valley |
| aquamarine | a greenish blue color |
| asterisk | a mark like a star * used especially to show something important in a document |
| astronaut | someone who travels and works in a spaceship |
| astrology | the study of the movement of the stars and planets and their influence on people and events |
| astronomer | someone who studies the stars and planets |
| ambulatory | able to walk or move |
| ambulance | a special vehicle/car used for taking people who are very sick to the hospital |
| biology | the scientific study of living things |
| autobiography | the story of your life, written by yourself |
| biography | a book about a particular persn's life |
| antibiotic | a drug that is used to kill bacteria and cure infections |
| capital | an important city where the main government of a country, state etc. is |
| captain | someone who commands a ship or aircraft |
| decapitate | to cut off someone's head |
| caption | words printed above or below a picture in a book or newspaper or on a television screen to explain what the picture is showing |
| chronological | arranged acorrding to when something happened |
| chronograph | a scientific instrument for measuring and recording periods of time |
| synchronize | to arrange for two or more actions to happpen at exactly the same time |
| chronicle | a written record of series of events, especially historical events, written in the order in which they happened |
| credit | approval or praise for doing something good |
| incredible | extremely good,large or impressive |
| credence | the acceptance of something as true |
| credentials | somehing, especially a document, that shows you have earned a particular position, or are legally allowed to do a job |
| democrat | a member or supporter of the Democreatic Party of the US |
| aristocrat | someone who belongs to the highest social class |
| bureaucrat | someone who works in a bureaucracy |
| bicycle | a vehicle with two wheels that you sit on and make move by pushing its pedals with your feet |
| cyclone | a very strong wind that moves very fast in a circle |
| encyclopedia | a book, set of books, which contains facts about one or many different subjects |
| unicyclist | a person who rides a vehicle that is like a bicycle but has only one wheel |
| democray | a system of government in which every citizen in the country can vote to elect its government officials |
| epidemic | a person who works in the area of medical science or tretment that deals with problems, diseases, or injuries of bones, muscles, etc. |
| demographics | information about the people who live in a particular area |
| pandemic | an illness or disease that affects the population of a very large area |
| doctrine | a stronge belief or set of beliefs that form an important part of a rerligion or system of ideas |
| document | to write about something,film ir ,photograph it |
| doctor | somesone whose job is to treat people who are sick |
| doctorate | a university degree of the highest level |
| dictionary | a book that gives a list of words in alphabetical order and explains their meaning in the same or another language |
| dictate | to say words for somesone else to write down |
| predict | to say that something will happen before it happens |
| dictation | the act of saying words for someone to write down |
| factory | a building, in which goods are produced in large quantaties using machines |
| manufacture | the process of making goods using maschines, usually in larg numbers |
| sufficient | as much as is needed for a particular purpose |
| efficient | something or someone that is efficient works well and effectively, without wasting time, money, or energy |
| reflex | a sudden movemen that your muscles make as a natural reaction to a physical effect |
| reflection | an image reflected in a mirror or similar surface |
| flexible | something that can be bent easily |
| deflect | to turning in a different diretion |
| uniform | being the same |
| transform | to completely change the appearance, form, or character of something or someone |
| reform | a change or changes made to system or organization, in order to improve |
| platform | (for speeches)a raised floor or stage for people to stand on when they are making a speech,performing |
| fracture | something breaks and cracks |
| fragment | a small piece of something that has broken off or that coes from something larger |
| fraction | a small amout of something |
| faction | a small group of people within a large group, who have different opinions from others |
| generation | all people of about the same age |
| genealogy | the study of the history of families |
| genocide | the killing of a entire group of people because of their race or religion in particular |
| genus | a group of animals or plants that are related |
| geography | the study of the contries, oceans, rivers, moutains, cities etc. of the world |
| geology | the study of minerals such as rocks, soil, and minerals |
| geometry | the studyin mathematics of the form and relationships of angles, lines, curves, shapes, and solid objects |
| geopolitical | the study of the effects of a country's position,population |
| hydraulics | moved or operated by the pressure of water ot other liquids |
| hydrant | fire hydrant |
| hydrophobia | a technical word for RABIES |
| telegram | a message sent by telegraph |
| photograph | a picture that is made using a camera and film that is sensitive to light |
| grammar | the rules accoding to which the words of a language change their form and are conbined into sentences |
| biography | a book about a particular persn's life |
| judge | the official in control of a court who decides how criminals should be punished |
| justice | the system by which people are judged in courts of law an criminals are punished |
| justify | to give a acceptable explanation for something that other people think is unreasonable |
| judicial | relating to a court of law |
