Unit 4: Lesson 17

This list features words from "The Emperor's Silent Army" and "Ancient China: Visual Arts" (both are informational texts).

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 6, Unit 4's texts from HMH's Scope and Sequence series: Lesson 16, Lesson 17, Lesson 18, Lesson 19, Lesson 20, A Wrinkle in Time

Here are links to all the 2014 Journeys units: Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, Unit 4, Unit 5, Unit 6
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  1. archaeologist
    an anthropologist who studies prehistoric culture
  2. dignified
    formal or stately in bearing or appearance
  3. mythical
    based on or told of in traditional stories
  4. precede
    be earlier in time
  5. elaborate
    marked by complexity and richness of detail
  6. replica
    copy that is not the original
  7. temperament
    your usual mood
  8. distinct
    constituting a separate entity or part
  9. lustrous
    reflecting light
  10. excavate
    find by digging in the ground
  11. afterlife
    life after death
  12. artifact
    a man-made object
  13. dynasty
    a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family
  14. unearth
    recover through digging
  15. legacy
    a gift of personal property by will
  16. evacuate
    move out of an unsafe location into safety
  17. irritable
    easily annoyed
  18. exaggerate
    enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
  19. improbable
    having a chance of occurring too low to inspire belief
Created on Fri May 13 11:30:12 EDT 2016 (updated Fri May 13 15:31:15 EDT 2016)

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