NEO 63

Question 1

prosperous

Answer 1

successful, usually by earning a lot of money
example: was at its height from 1400 B.C.E. to 1200 B.C.E., with growing cities, thriving trade, and a prosperous economy

Question 2

monstrous

Answer 2

very cruel
example: monstrous tidal wave that destroyed the great palace

Question 3

tidal

Answer 3

connected with, or influenced or powered by, the rise and fall of the sea:
example: monstrous tidal wave that destroyed the great palace

Question 4

raider

Answer 4

someone who enters a place illegally and usually violently, and steals from it
example: suggested that sea raiders destroyed Pylos

Question 5

peninsula

Answer 5

an area of land mostly surrounded by water but connected to a larger piece of land
example: in an attack on the southern Greek peninsula of Peloponnese

Question 6

repulse

Answer 6

to push someone or something back or away, esp. to successfully stop an attack
example: Greek peninsula of
Peloponnese, which was repulsed.

Question 7

raid

Answer 7

to attack a place suddenly:
example: who raided, infiltrated,
and eventually dominated Greece

Question 8

infiltrated

Answer 8

to secretly become part of a group in order to get information or to influence the way that group thinks or behaves
example: who raided, infiltrated,
and eventually dominated Greece

Question 9

bureaucrat

Answer 9

someone working in a bureaucracy
bureaucracy: a body of government officials who are not elected but form an administrative policy making group.
example: The palaces and the kings and bureaucrats who managed them were destroyed.

Question 10

heaps

Answer 10

load of
example: garbage heaps

Question 11

matrix

Answer 11

a substance in which other things are fixed, buried, etc.
example: dry soil matrix from the fragile archaeological
remains in the field

Question 12

dentition

Answer 12

the number, type, and arrangement of teeth in a person or animal
example: Humans have a more generalized dentition, built for chewing