Reading Flashcards

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Having belief or practice based on ignorant fear or mistaken reverence

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Superstitious

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Like a machine; without expression

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Mechanical

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Nearly correct

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Approximately

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The act of or process of uncovering by digging

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Excavated

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Pots, dishes, vases, etc made from clay and hardened my heat

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Pottery

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Watching carefully; on the lookout;

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Watchful

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Sacred, holy

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Divine

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To bring back to a former condition

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Restore

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Kind of hard, often unglazed, brownish-red earthenware, used for flowerpots, vases, statuetts, building decorations, etc

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Terra cotta

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To pass into or through

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Penetrated

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A grave

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Tomb

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To remove by pulling

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Extraction

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A close reproduction especially by the maker of the original

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Replica

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A special in paleontologist

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Paleontologist

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A statement that makes something clear to explain

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Explanation

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A trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exists

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Vestige

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A place, typically a large, deep pit, from which stone or other material are or have extracted

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Quarry

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The act of forming or process of being formed

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Formation