Social Studies
What is a cataract?
a steep rapid or waterfall in a river
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You could have a night that's the worst night of your life, but to everybody else, its just an ordinary night. I would mark this as being one of the most horrific days of my life
Horrific - causing horror; dreadful, horrendous, awful, terrible
What is a chariot?
a carriage with two wheels that was pulled by horses and used for war or races in ancient times
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariot#/media/File:Hittite_Chariot.jpg
A pair of numbers used to locate a point on the coordinate place
What is an ordered pair?
What is a dynasty?
a line of ruler who belong to the same family
"but this is crazy, Auggie!" I said emphatically, pulling the new comic book away from him too. "You have to go back to school"
emphatically: in a forceful way; definitely, clearly, without a doubt, forcefully
The least common multiple of the denominators of two or more fractions
What is a least common denominator?
What is a delta?
the flat, fan-shaped land made of silt deposited at the mouth of a river
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_delta#/media/File:Line5066_-_Flickr_-_NOAA_Photo_Library.jpg
Can you imagine how how felt to see you running away from him?"
"Come on Jamie" said mom angrily. "I honestly thought both my boys were more sympathetic than that"
Sympathetic: feeling, showing, or expressing sympathy
caring, concerned, understanding, kind, considerate
What is a pharoah?
the title used by the rulers of ancient Egypt, it refers to the "great place"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharaoh#/media/File:Pharaoh.svg
The greatest of the common factors of two or more numbers
What is greatest common factor?
What are hieroglyphics?
the ancient Egyptian system of writing that used symbols to stand for objects, ideas, or sounds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieroglyph#/media/File:Egypt_Hieroglyphe4.jpg
Expulsion: the process of forcing someone to leave a place
exclusion, dismissal, removal, ejection, discharge
I can't sleep tonight. My head is full of thoughts that won't turn off. Lines from my monologues.
Monologues: long speech by one actor in a play or movie or as part of a theatricla or broadcast program
speech, sermon, homily, address
A comparison of two quantities by division
What is a ratio?
What is a scribe?
a professional writer who kept records and copied letters and official documents
In retrospect, and having now seen the child in questions at various school functions and in the class pictures, I think it may have been too much to ask of our children to be able to process all that
Retrospect: survey or review of a past course of events or period of time
recollection, review, past reflection, reconsideration
to multiply or divide two related quantities by the same number
What is scaling?
What is an equivalent ratio?