February 21, 2017

Vocabulary #17

1.) archaeologist - a scientist who studies the way people lived in the past

2.) authority - power to make or enforce rules or laws

3.) passage - a space along which something or someone may pass

4.) tombs - places for the burial of the dead

5.) valuable - precious or worth a lot of money

6.) priceless - worth more than any amount of money

7.) sarcophagus - a stone coffin

8.) triumph - a great success

9.) possessive - relating to a word or a form of a word that shows that something or someone belongs to something or someone else

10.) compare to look at (two or more things) closely in order to see what is similar or different about them or in order to decide