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Reading Street Unit 2 Vocab Review

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  • mechanical
    having to do with machines or machinery
  • superstitious
    having unreasonable beliefs
  • particles
    extremely small units of matter
  • decrees
    official decision or laws
  • Astronomers
    experts in the sun, moon, planets, stars, and galaxies
  • watchfully
    looking closely
  • galaxy
    a group of billions of stars forming one system
  • eternity
    the endless period after death
  • reigned
    ruled
  • Collapse
    to cave in
  • divine
    godlike, supremely great or holy
  • combustion
    act or process of burning
  • waning
    becoming smaller or less visible
  • waft
    breath or puff of air, wind scent
  • prehistoric
    from a time before recorded history
  • receded
    moved back
  • traversed
    passed across, over, or through
  • trowels
    flat-bladed tools for spreading mortar
  • abundant
    more than enough
  • restore
    to bring back to its original condition by rebuilding/refixing
  • pottery
    objects made out of clay and hardened
  • compact
    firmly packed together
  • excavated
    uncovered, unearthed, dug out
  • alcoves
    small rooms opening out of larger rooms
  • terra cotta
    hard reddish-brown clayware
  • pueblo
    a Native American village
  • artifacts
    things made by humans
  • decades
    period of 10 years
  • immortal
    living forever, never dying
  • negotiate
    talk over and arrange terms
  • collide
    to strike violently together
  • approximately
    to be more or less exact, about
  • obsidian
    hard, dark, glossy rock formed from cool lava
  • dingy
    dirty-looking
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