Week 1
The thin, stretched membrane across the ear canal that vibrates when sound hits it.
Eardrum
Characteristics that someone or something has; qualities; traits; features.
Attributes
Very harsh and unpleasant.
Brutal
To develop successfully; to prosper or grow.
Thrive
Rapid movement back and forth.
Vibration
The way in which someone holds or carries his body.
Posture
Disobeyed a command, challenged the power of someone or something.
Defied
Siege
Work that involves designing and building things; manufacturing.
Engineering
Describes a material that absorbs light and prevents it from shining through.
Opaque
Electrical signals carried through the nerves of the ear to the brain enabling someone to hear sound.
Impulses
An exclusive, upper-class group; a class of people considered to be the richest, most educated, and/or most influential.
Elite
The power to have a compelling or persuasive effect on people or things.
Influence
The act of entering a place by force to take control or power over it.
Invasion
Curving inward; shaped like the inside of a bowl.
Concave
What does MIRACULOUSLY mean?
Amazingly, incredibly.
What is a CONFLICT?
A fight or argument, often for power or property.
What does it mean to be INGENIOUS?
Cleverly inventive; imaginative; resourceful.
What does it mean to be DOMINANT?
What is a SPECTRUM?
A series or range of objects, things, or ideas arranged in a particular order.
What is a HEMISPHERE?
Halves of a sphere; halves of the Earth; halves of the cerebrum.
What are RUINS?
What does it mean to be UNCIVILIZED?
Having complete disregard for or no knowledge of the proper way to behave; barbaric; crude.
What is a DECLINE?
The process of becoming worse; a downward movement of something; a decrease in the amount, number or quality of something.
What does it mean to be TRANSLUCENT?
Describes an object that allows some light to pass through so that you are able to see the form of an object but not a clear image.