January 30, 2017

Vocabulary #14

1.) caravan - a traveling group

2.) chariots - two-wheeled or four wheeled horse drawn vehicles used in ancient times

3.) merchant - someone who buys and sells goods

4.) platforms - flat, raised structures so that crowd could see them better

5.) civilization- any type of culture, society of a specific place, time, or group; 
cities or populated areas 

6.) polytheistic - there is more than one god or many gods

7.) advantage - something that helps to make someone better or more likely to succeed

8.) enriched - added to make something better

9.) flooding - water rising and overflowing onto the dry land around it

10.) idioms - an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings; 
a language, dialect, or style of speaking

11.) antonyms - a word opposite in meaning to another

12.) rebus - a representation of a word or phrase by pictures, symbols