17 Flashcards

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transient

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theater is to find way of talking about something that ’s really so transient,

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landmark

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It was the landmark production.

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track down

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track somebody / something ↔ down
phrasal verb
to find someone or something that is difficult to find by searching or looking for information in several different places:
I finally managed to track down the book you wanted in a shop near the station.
Detectives had tracked her down in California.

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roughly

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Approximately

which I am roughly defining as the period from 35,000 to 8,000 BC

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Hood

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كلاه پارچه اي

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tusk

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عاج

probably a mammoth’s tusk

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intact

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, and the layers are intact.

دست نخورده

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discard

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used for several generations before it was discarded

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carve out

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said the lady with the hood was carved out of ivory.

Ivory:عاج

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9
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charcoal

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Charcoal

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10
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Dye

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رنگ مو ،،

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11
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chip off

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so you have to chip off bits of the object for testing.

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12
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reluctant

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OPP. Willing

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13
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Narrow

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Can we narrow it down?

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14
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trend

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But trends in art in the last century or so certainly challenge that idea.

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legal

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I mean, I get the feeling that this is like a legal process, like building a legal case, the more pieces of evidence we have, the closer we get to the

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16
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analogy

Analogy

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Great analogy

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17
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oval

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بيضي

You are probably aware that the earth’s orbit around the sun, it is not shaped like a perfect circle. It is more of an oval,

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elliptical

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بيضي شكل

19
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hemisphere

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, the northern hemisphere,

20
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tilt

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The tilt of earth’s axis,

21
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precession

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Precession, basically is the change in the direction of earth’s axis of rotation.

22
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Skeptical

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many of his colleagues were skeptical

شكاك

23
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calcite

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كربنات كلسيم

24
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negate

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deny

25
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Audition

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I must have auditioned like ten times since I have been at the school,

26
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rehearse

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she spent the whole afternoon rehearsing her speech

27
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obligation

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And when you start having financial obligations, rents, taxes, you have to keep track of how often you pay.

28
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revolve

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Egyptian life basically revolved around the mysterious rise and fall of the river.

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inundation

inundate

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سيل گرفتگي

30
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subsidence

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Subsidence

31
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submerge

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زير اب فرو كردن

when the Nile valley was essentially submerged in water for a few months or soغ

32
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subside

Subsidence

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the water would subside, or recede, revealing a new layer of fertile black silt and allowing for the planting of various crops.

33
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constituite

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and about four of the months would constitute a season

34
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glare

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Actually, it’d be hidden in the glare of the Sun.

35
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dawn

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سحر سپيده دم

36
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Lunar

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Lunar moon

37
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bureaucratic purposes

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bureaucratic purposes

38
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alongside

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This administrative calendar existed alongside the earlier agricultural and religious calendar that depended on the heliacal rising of Sirius.

39
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Speckle

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and it ’s speckled with dark spots.

40
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Sack

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كيسه

Chromatophores consist of tiny sacks filled with color dye

41
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contract

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But if the muscle’s contract, then the sack expands

42
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mimic

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some animals mimic their environment

برخی حیوانات با محیط خود همگون میشوند.

43
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come in

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so that’s where the second kind of cell comes in.

44
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projection

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They have these little projections on their skin that allow them to resemble various textures.
برامدگي

45
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squirt

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I read that they often hide from predators by squirting out a cloud of ink, or something like that.

Spray