Vocabulary 3 Unit II | Baamboozle - Baamboozle | The Most Fun Classroom Games!

Preserved : to keep something as it is, especially in order to prevent it from decaying or being damaged or destroyed

Verb to preserve the environment

Trace : to find someone or something that was lost

Verb The police are trying to trace the mother of a newborn baby found abandoned outside a hospital.

Mold : a soft green, gray, or black growth that develops on old food or on objects that have been left too long in warm, slightly wet places

Noun , verb She molded the clay into little animals.

Inpression : an idea or opinion of what something or someone is like

Noun I didn't get much of an impression of the place because it was dark when we drove through it.

Fossil : the shape of a bone, a shell, or a plant or animal that has been preserved in rock for a very long period

Noun Chitinozoans and a few graptolites were found in the unit, but no other fossils.

Footprint : the mark made by a person's or animal's foot

Noun The new computer has a smaller footprint.

Cast : the actors in a film, play, or show

Noun After the final performance the director threw a party for the cast.

Tar : a black substance, sticky when hot, used especially for making roads

Noun a low tar cigarette

Sediment : a soft substance that is like a wet powder and consists of very small pieces of a solid material that have fallen to the bottom of a liquid

Noun There was a brown sediment in the bottom of the bottle.

Mud : a substance that consists of very small grains of rock, found on beaches and in deserts

Noun a grain of sand

Mud : earth that has been mixed with water

Noun The vehicles got bogged down in the heavy mud.

Mineral : a valuable or useful chemical substance that is formed naturally in the ground

Noun A healthy diet should supply all necessary vitamins and minerals.

Carbon : a chemical element that exists in its pure form as diamond or graphite, and is an important part of other substances such as coal and oil, as well as being contained in all plants and animals

Noun They used carbon dating tests to authenticate the claim that the skeleton was 2 million years old.

Amber : a hard, transparent, yellowish-brown substance that was formed in ancient times from resin (= a substance produced by trees) and is used in jewellery

Noun He has a collection of prehistoric insects preserved in amber.

Trilobite : a simple, flat sea creature that lived in the earliest period of life on earth, with a hard outer layer and a body in three parts

Noun Distribution of trilobites within these formations is random, and boundaries between the lithostratigraphic units are typically not exposed.

Sponge : a soft substance that is full of small holes and can absorb a lot of liquid, and is used for washing and cleaning

Noun Give it a sponge with a damp cloth - that will remove the blood stains.

Crab : a sea creature with five pairs of legs and a round, flat body covered by a shell, or its flesh eaten as food

Noun We walked along the beach collecting small crabs

Horseshoe : a U-shaped piece of metal that is attached to the bottom of a horse's hoof to protect it

Noun For many people the horseshoe is a symbol of good luck.

Fish : an animal that lives in water, is covered with scales, and breathes by taking water in through its mouth, or the flesh of these animals eaten as food

Noun Several large fish live in the pond.

Dinosaur :a type of reptile that became extinct about 65,000,000 years ago. There were many different types of dinosaur, some of which were extremely large.

Noun This computer's a dinosaur, isn't it?