Lesson 13 vocabulary
This is a chest of something to contain valuables
Pictures
If you obliterate a forest, what are you doing to it?
wiping it out
If you own a canine, you own a...
dog
A 14-year old girl convinced her parents to do what?
Sell their house and donate half the money to charity
This is a point in time
juncture
What is a rivulet?
A small stream of water
If you are at the mountain's apex, where are you?
At the top
If you ravage something, you are...
destroying it
The article that we read was titled, "I came, I saw, I....?
shopped
Another name for a building or structure
edifice
Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein are considered innovative because they created something...
New
If an idea is defunct, it is...
outdated
The vocabulary word for detecting something with your five senses
perceive
According to the article, which group of countries save way more money than Americans?
Europeans
Supporting it with money
Name something that is inaccessible
Anything that is hard to get to or overcome
Another name for the middle class who are not rich or not poor
bourgeois
The flowing in of something
influx
According to the article, what is the name of the cells in our brains that allow us to reflect the feelings and behaviors of other people?
Mirror neurons
According to the context clues, a retainer is...
Advance payment for a future service
A lion is tawny because it's...
Tan or light brown
If you were alone in a blizzard with meager supplies, you would....
die
When something becomes ossified, it becomes...
hard
According to the article, a study showed that Americans upgrade their cell phone how often?