Chapters 1-12
Chapters 13-21
Chapters 22-31
Chapters 32-41
Academic Vocabulary
100
A stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture and inscriptions.
What is a sarcophagus?
100
Anything that appears, especially something that is startling.
What is apparitions?
100
An object or item that serves to remind one of a person or past event.
What is a momento?
100
To speak with involuntary breaks or pauses.
What is stammered?
100
To continue trying, no matter how hard something is.
What is persevere?
200
A magical realm where the gods exist, magicians can travel between places much more quickly than thye could in the regular world.
What is the duat?
200
A material on which to write, prepared from think strips of the pith of this plant laid together, soaked, pressed, and dried, used by ancient Egyptians.
What is papyrus?
200
A decorative line of balloons or flags used as decoration.
What is festooned?
200
To splash or throw water on.
What is doused?
200
To tell information again using fewer words.
What is summarize?
300
The study of ancient things.
What is archeology?
300
A small object worn to ward off evil, harm, or illness or to bring good fortune; protecting charm.
What is an amulet?
300
The chanting or uttering of words believed to have magical powers.
What is incantation?
300
To give or allow unwillingly.
What is grudgingly?
300
A person who appears in a story, book, play, movie, or TV show.
What is a character?
400
A person in charge of a museum.
What is a curator?
400
A figure of an imaginary creature having the head of a man, or an animal, and the body of a lion.
What is the Sphinxes?
400
A device for beheading a person by means of a heavy blade that is dropped between two posts serving a guides.
What is a guillotine?
400
The crowning achievement, point element, or event.
What is capstone?
400
To study something closely and carefully.
What is analyze?
500
A tapering, four-sided shaft of stone, usually monolithic and having a pyramidal apex.
What is an obelisk?
500
To affect or influence by or as if by invocation or spell.
What is conjure?
500
Extremely plentiful or over sufficient.
What is abundance?
500
A display of fireworks.
What is pyrotechnics?
500
To say that something will or might happen.
What is predict?
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