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Word | Meaning | Advanced |
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alphabet | n: a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language | |
Pharaoh | n: the title of the ancient Egyptian kings | |
victory | n: success in a game, competition, election, or battle, or the knowledge that you have won | |
capture | v: to catch a person or an animal and confine them in an area which they cannot escape | |
enslave | v: to make someone a slave; to deprive someone of their freedom of choice or action | |
slave | n: a person who is, either legally or illegally, owned by someone; a person entirely dominated by some influence or a person | |
hieroglyph | n: a writing system using picture symbols, such as the one used in ancient Egypt | |
cumbersome | adj: difficult to handle or use, especially because of being large, heavy, or not effective; not elegant or graceful in expression | |
symbol | n: something visible that is used to represent something else | |
represent | v: to speak, act, or be present on behalf of another person or group; to form or constitute | |
complicated | adj: involving a lot of different things or parts in a way that is difficult to understand or analyze | |
script | n: a written text of a film, play, broadcast, or speech; something written by hand | |
linguist | n: a person who speaks several foreign languages; a person who studies or teaches languages or linguistics | |
derive | v: to obtain or receive something from a source | |
simplify | v: to make something more straightforward, more understandable, or easier to do | |
devise | v: to come up with an idea, plan, theory, etc., using your intelligence or imagination | |
communicate | v: to share or exchange information with others by speaking, writing, moving your body, or using other signals | |
ancient | adj: relating to the long ago, particularly the historical period preceding the fall of the Western Roman Empire; very old | |
innovation | n: the creation of a new device or process resulting from study and experimentation | |
eventually | adv: finally, particularly after a long time or a lot of struggle, complications, and so on | |
scholar | n: professor; a person who studies a topic in considerable depth, particularly in a university | |
translate | v: to convert or change words into another language | |
discovery | n: the act or process of finding information, a place, or an object, or learning about something that was previously not known | |
migrate | v: to move from one country or region to another and settle there; to move from one place to another periodically or seasonally | |
seaborne | adj: conveyed by sea | |
tribe | n: a social group made up of members who live together, sharing the same language, culture, religion, etc., especially those who do not live in towns or cities | |
encounter | v: to face something, particularly something unpleasant or difficult, while attempting to do something else; to meet, especially unexpectedly | |
Mediterranean | n: the sea encircled by southern Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia | |
sever | v: to break or separate something by cutting, especially suddenly and forcibly | |
modern | adj: of or belonging to the present time or recent times | |
descendent | adj: going or coming down; derived from an ancestor | |
instance | n: a particular example or single occurrence of something | |
edition | n: a particular form or version in which a text, especially a printed book, magazine, or newspaper, is published; |