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Rome
Rōma
āthlēta
Athlete
puella est poēta
The girl is a poet
The sailor walks
nauta ambulat
lupam
Accusative Singular
Definition: a keeper or custodian of a museum or other collection
From: cūrat
Curator
A ________ is a piece of sanitary hardware that collects human waste and sometimes ________ paper, usually for disposal.
Toilet
She-wolf
lupa
agricola
Farmer
agricola terram cūrat
The farmer cares for the land
The daughter cares for the girl
fīlia puellam cūrat
nautārum
Genitive Plural
Definition: a person who engages in a pursuit, especially a sport, on an unpaid rather than a professional basis
From: amat
Amateur
_______ is a thin sheet material produced by mechanically or chemically processing cellulose fibres derived from wood, rags, grasses, herbivore dung, or other vegetable sources in water. Once the water is drained through a fine mesh leaving the fibre evenly distributed on the surface, it can be pressed and dried.
Paper
Land
terra
cūrat
lupam nauta amat
The sailor loves the she-wolf
Rome is the land
Rōma est terra
fīlia
Definition: of or from outside the earth or its atmosphere
From: terra
Extraterrestrial
______ is natural rock or sediment that contains one or more valuable minerals, typically including metals, concentrated above background levels, and that is economically viable to mine and process.
Ore
Daughter
fīlia
puella
Girl
āthlēta fīliās bene amat
The athlete loves the daughters well
The farmer cares well for the she-wolves
agricola bene lupās cūrat
poētā
Ablative Singular
Definition: absolutely necessary; extremely important
From: est
Essential
Earth's _______ is a layer of silicate rock between the crust and the outer core. It has a mass of 4.01×1024 kg and makes up 67% of the mass of Earth. It has a thickness of 2,900 kilometers making up about 46% of Earth's radius and 84% of Earth's volume. It is predominantly solid but, on geologic time scales, it behaves as a viscous fluid, sometimes described as having the consistency of caramel.
Mantle
He/she/it is
est
amat
He/she/it loves
poētās et aquam agricola cūrat
The farmer cares for the poets and the water
The poet loves the farmers and the waters
poēta agricolās et aquās amat
terrae
Dative Singular, Genitive Singular, Nominative Plural
Definition: an underground conduit for carrying off drainage water and waste matter
From: aqua
Sewer
___________ is a common law legal term for homicide considered by law as less culpable than murder. The distinction between murder and ___________ is sometimes said to have first been made by the ancient Athenian lawmaker Draco in the 7th century BC