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Vocabulary
King Tut's Tomb
The Gory Art of Mummy Making
Fun With Words
Word Study
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To build
What is construct?
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The country that King tut ruled for a few years.
What is Egypt?
100
One problem that the mummy makers faced.
What is they needed to perserve dead bodies before they rotted?
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Jamal's mother said, "If you drag your feet, you will never finish your homework!" What does the idiom "drag your feet" mean?
What is "do something slowly"
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A homophone for billed is- A. built B. build C. pill D. bill
What is B "build"
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To investigate or look into something.
What is examine?
200
Name of the explorer and scientist who founded the tomb of King Tut.
What is Howard Carter?
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The name of the special case that mummy makers constructed.
What is a mummy case?
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I know you really want that job, so I'll keep my fingers crossed that you get it. What does the idiom "keep my fingers crossed" mean in this sentence?
What is "Wish for success"
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Definition of an idiom.
What is a phrase that means something different from the separate meanings of the words in the phrase?
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Things such as wood, plastic, or cloth used to make other things.
What are materials?
300
The reason King Tut is famous today.
What is his tomb was one of the most famous finds in Egypt?
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When a body dries out, this is what rots first.
What are the organs?
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Last summer I __________ hundreds of photographs. A. took B. taked C. take D. tooked
What is took.
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Use an idiom in a sentence.
What is (answers will vary)?
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To keep something from being destroyed.
What is preserve?
400
King Tut's tomb was filled with this.
What is gold and jewlery?
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The way that the mummy makers get the brain out of a dead body.
What is they pulled the brain out through the nose?
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At the gift shop, Lara __________ a funny card. A. choose B. choosed C. choosing D. chose
What is chose.
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When I caught the flu, I was _____ for two weeks. a. mad as a hatter b. happy as a clam c. sick as a dog d. sad as a tear
What is c. sick as a dog?
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Symbol
What is a sign or object that represents something else?
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The solution to Carter's problem of being out of money and his team wanted to give up the search.
What is he kept looking and finally found an old stairway?
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The problem that was solved by wrapping the mummies in layers of cloth?
What is the cloth protected the mummies after they were dried out?
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The test was a piece of cake, so Brad passed it easily. A. Something easy B. You are hungry C. Something is hard to remember D. You are cooking
What is something easy
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Which pair of words are homophones? A. wing/wind B. roar/rare C. scene/seen D. sled/slide
What is C.