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AARIANA LEE TUCKER
vocab 3
| Word | definition |
|---|---|
| Archaeologist | A person who studies archaeology. |
| Rummaging | to search thoroughly or actively through (a place, receptacle, etc.), especially by moving around, turning over, or looking through contents. |
| Fugitive | having taken flight, or run away: a fugitive slave. |
| Colleague | an associate. |
| Relics | a surviving memorial of something past. |
| Archaeologist | a person who specializes in anthropology. |
| obelisk | a tapering, four-sided shaft of stone, usually monolithic and having a pyramidal apex. |
| Amulets | a small object worn to ward off evil, harm, or illness or to bring good fortune; protecting charm. |
| Illuminated | to supply or brighten with light; light up. |
| crurater | the person in charge of a museum, art collection, etc. |
| heiroglyphics | Also, hi·er·o·glyph·i·cal. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented. |
| decipher | to discover the meaning of (anything obscure or difficult to trace or understand): to decipher hieroglyphics. |
| brandishing | to shake or wave, as a weapon; flourish: Brandishing his sword, he rode into battle. |
| sarcophagus | a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument. |
| deportation | the lawful expulsion of an undesired alien or other person from a state. |
| incredulous | not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical. |
| fedora | a soft felt hat with a curled brim, worn with the crown creased lengthwise. |
| quayside | the area bordering and around a quay or quays. |
| disspated | indulging in or characterized by excessive devotion to pleasure; intemperate; dissolute. |
| interveen | to come between disputing people, groups, etc.; intercede; mediate. |
| artifacts | any object made by human beings, especially with a view to subsequent use. |
| authenticity | the quality of being authentic; genuineness. |
| chided | to express disapproval of; scold; reproach: The principal chided the children for their thoughtless pranks. |
| gingelly | another name for sesame |
| excude | to come out gradually in drops, as sweat, through pores or small openings; ooze out. |
| impeckabe | faultless; flawless; irreproachable: impeccable manners. |
| minion | a servile follower or subordinate of a person in power. |
| seething | to surge or foam as if boiling. |
| Rosetta Stone | a stone slab, found in 1799 near Rosetta, bearing parallel inscriptions in Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphic, and demotic characters, making possible the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. |
| Egyptionologist | the scientific study of Egyptian antiquities. |
| auspicious | promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable: |
| sabotaged | any underhand interference with production, work, etc., in a plant, factory, etc., as by enemy agents during wartime or by employees during a trade dispute. |
| cartouche | an oval or oblong figure, as on ancient Egyptian monuments, enclosing characters that represent the name of a sovereign. |
| summoned | to call upon to do something specified. |
| palette | a thin and usually oval or oblong board or tablet with a thumb hole at one end, used by painters for holding and mixing colors. |
| avatar | the descent of a deity to the earth in an incarnate form or some manifest shape; the incarnation of a god. |
| annihilation | the act or an instance of annihilating. |
| constured | to give the meaning or intention of; explain; interpret. |
| flotsam | the part of the wreckage of a ship and its cargo found floating on the water. |
| embodiment | the act of embodying. |
| incantation | the chanting or uttering of words purporting to have magical power. |
| inferno | hell; the infernal regions. |
| necromancer | a method of divination through alleged communication with the dead; black art. |
| premonition | a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event; presentiment: He had a vague premonition of danger. |
| reconciling | to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired |
| retort | to reply to, usually in a sharp or retaliatory way; reply in kind to. |
| sinewy | having strong sinews: |
| dubiously | doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt |
| imploded | to burst inward |
| intercepted | to take, seize, or halt (someone or something on the way from one place to another); cut off from an intended destination: |
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