accounts	achieve	adulthood	adventurous	affectionate

album	ancestors	anthem	antler	aristocracy

artistic	autobiography	awesome	B.C.	ballerina

ballet	barbarian	battlefield	border	buildings

canyon	capable	carefree	category	cavalry

choregrapher	civil	Civil War	classical    Code of Hammurabe

**Write one of the words from the word box to match each definition.

1. (               ) Liking adventure and willing to take risks.

2. (               ) A form of dance having a system of precise, graceful movements.

3. (               ) A single recording of a collection of songs by a musical artist that plays for a long time, such as a record, cassette tape, or CD.

4. (               ) The story of one's own life written by oneself.

5. (               ) Able to do things well. Fit or skilled.

6. (               ) Reasons for or explanations of things.

7. (               ) A woman ballet dancer.

8. (               ) Structures, such as houses, factories, and schools, built with walls and a roof.

9. (               ) Causing one to feel awe. Awe is a deep respect mixed with fear and wonder.

10. (               ) To accomplish or succeed in doing something.

11. (               ) A long, narrow valley with high cliffs on each side, often with a stream running through it.

12. (               ) The condition of being an adult, or fully grown.

13. (               ) Without care or worry.

14. (               ) A person living in a savage or primitive society.

15. (               ) A division of a main subject or group.

16. (               ) Tender and loving. Full of affection.

17. (               ) Done with skill and a good sense of color, form, and design. Knowing and enjoying what is beautiful.

18. (               ) Soldiers who fight on horseback. Nowadays, ____________ usually ride in armored vehicles.

19. (               ) A place where a battle is or was fought.

20. (               ) Years before 0 A.D. This book was published in 2002 A.D.

21. (               ) A set of laws created by King Hammurabi that lay out rules for proper behavior and punishment for crimes in ancient Babylonia.

22. (               ) a person who comes before one in a family line. A forefather.

23. (               ) Something, such as art, music, or dance, that is based on traditional forms of European origin.

24. (               ) Hard branching growths on the head of a deer, moose, or other related animal. Animals with antlers shed and regrow them every year.

25. (               ) The war from 1861 to 1865 between the North and the South in the U.S.

26. (               ) Of a citizen or citizens. Of or within a country or its government.

27. (               ) A line that divides one country or state from another. A frontier.

28. (               ) A class of people who have a high position in society because they are born into families having wealth and sometimes titles. Nobility.

29. (               ) A person who is an expert in choregraphy, the planning of the steps and movements of a dance routine or ballet.

30. (               ) The official song of a country or school.

collection	comedy	commander	concerts	Confucianism

conquer	conscious	credit	debris	decree

demagogues	demolish	descendants	designs	devise

drought	dynasty	eager	effortless	elite

energy	estate	experiment	farewell	ferocious

filial piety	flint	food chain	forelegs	formula

**Write one of the words from the word box to match each definition.

1. (               ) A play, film, or TV show that is funny and has a happy ending.

2. (               ) To tear down, smash, or destroy.

3. (               ) The group thought of as being the finest or the best.

4. (               ) Cruel or fierce in a wild way. Savage.

5. (               ) A person who is descended from a certain ancestor.

6. (               ) A number of similar objects gathered into a group.

7. (               ) Power to work or be active. The power of certain forces in nature to do work.

8. (               ) Loyalty or a sense of duty toward one's parents, family, or ancestors.

9. (               ) A drawing or plan to be followed in making something.

10. (               ) An official order or decision of a government.

11. (               ) A group of symbols or figures that show some rule or fact in mathematics.

12. (               ) Everything a person owns, including money, land, and other property.

13. (               ) A person who stirs up the feelings and prejudices of people to win them over quickly and use them to get power.

14. (               ) A test or series of tests to find out something or to see whether a theory is correct.

15. (               ) To plan or invent something

16. (               ) Goodbye.

17. (               ) a long period of dry weather with little or no rain.

18. (               ) Aware of one's own feelings or of things around one.

19. (               ) A musical program, especially one in which a number of musicians perform together.

20. (               ) Using or seeming to use very little effort, or mental or physical energy.

21. (               ) A very hard stone, a kind of quartz, that makes sparks when it is struck against steel.

22. (               ) A person who commands, or gives orders to, people, particularly one who commands a military force.

23. (               ) A series of plants and animals that form a group in a particular area.

24. (               ) Official recognition in a record.

25. (               ) A series of kings and rulers who belong to the same family.

26. (               ) The front legs of an animal with four r more legs.

27. (               ) Broken, scattered remains or rubble.

28. (               ) The teachings of Confucius emphasizing love for humanity, learning, peace, justice, and devotion to family, including ancestors.

29. (               ) Wanting very much. Anxious to do or get.

30. (               ) To get or gain by using force.

fortress	friction	gale	generals	generations

glory	grandeur	grasslands	graze	guardian

harbor	herds	igneous rock	incredible	innovations

inscription	intermediary	international	jealous	kilograms

landform	laws	legal	luxury	machine

mammals	manner	masquerade	meter	military

**Write one of the words from the word box to match each definition.

1. (               ) Open land with grass growing on it. A meadow or prairie.

2. (               ) To feed on growing grass or other plants in pastures or grasslands.

3. (               ) A number of cattle or other large animals feeding or living together.

4. (               ) A new device or new way of doing something. A change.

5. (               ) A building with strong walls for defense against an enemy.

6. (               ) Something that has been inscribed. To inscribe is to write, print, carve, or engrave something.

7. (               ) A person who guards and protects.

8. (               ) A way in which something happens or is done.

9. (               ) A place where ships may anchor and be safe from storms. A port.

10. (               ) Having to do with, for, or by soldiers or the armed forces.

11. (               ) The rubbing of one thing against another.

12. (               ) So great, unusual, or special that it is hard or impossible to believe.

13. (               ) A person who deals with each of two sides in making arrangements between them.

14. (               ) Unit of length which is the basic unit of the metric system.

15. (               ) The act of hiding who one is or how one feels. Disguise.

16. (               ) Between or among nations. Having to do with the relations between nations.

17. (               ) Any warmblooded animals that have backbone. _____________ also give birth to live young and produce milk with which to feed them.

18. (               ) Worried or afraid that someone else is taking the love and attention that one has or wants.

19. (               ) A strong wind.

20. (               ) Of or based on law.

21. (               ) Great size, beauty, dignity, or splendor.

22. (               ) Anything that gives one comfort and pleasure, usually not needed for life or health.

23. (               ) Rules that tell people what they must and must not do, made by the government of a city, state, or nation.

24. (               ) Rock formed by the actions of volcanoes.

25. (               ) Units of weight, each equal to 1,000 grams.

26. (               ) Great honor or fame. Worship or praise.

27. (               ) Single stages in the history of a family.

28. (               ) One of the features that make up the earth's surface, such as a plain, mountain, or valley.

29. (               ) A thing made up of fixed and moving part, for doing some kind of work.

30. (               ) High ranking military officers.

missile	models	niche	nursery	obsidian

oppressed	orchestra	ordinary	paleontologist	perform

persist	perspective	pillars	plateau	popularity

population	predict	punishment	quartz	quotient

ratio	rebels	reign	reintroduce	relocate

retreat	revolt	rhombus	rocket	scale

scavenger	secluded	slivers	social class	society

solo	span	speed	strategist	supreme

surface area	temporarily	tornado	tragedy	tribute

unearth	urban	velocity	virtues	volunteers

vultures	warmblooded	warrior	weight

**Write one of the words from the word box to match each definition.

1. (               ) A room set aside for the special use of children or infants.

2. (               ) The distance between two ends of something.

3. (               ) A weapon or other object that is thrown or shot through the air, usually at a target.

4. (               ) Fast motion or swiftness. ___________ can also be measured as a rate of motion.

5. (               ) Small objects made to serve as plans for final, larger things.

6. (               ) People living together as a group, or forming a group, with the same way of life.

7. (               ) A person who is skilled in strategy, or the science of planning and directing military movements and operations.

8. (               ) Made or done by one person.

9. (               ) A place or position for which a person is well suited. A __________ is also a hollow place in a wall, frequently used to display a statue or vase.

10. (               ) Highest in power, rank, quality, or degree. Greatest or strongest.

11. (               ) People having the same social or economic status.

12. (               ) People who are ___________________. For a person to be _________________ means that that person is being kept down by the cruel use of power or its being ruled in a very harsh way.

13. (               ) A person who fights or is experienced in war or fighting. A soldier.

14. (               ) A dark, glassy igneous rock formed from the lava of volcanoes.

15. (               ) A large bird similar to a hawk or eagle which eats the remains of dead animals. A large scavenger bird.

16. (               ) A large group of musicians playing together.

17. (               ) The extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary.

18. (               ) Usual, regular, or normal.

19. (               ) A broad stretch of high, level land.

20. (               ) Having a body heat that stays the same and is usually warmer than its surroundings.

21. (               ) An expert in paleontology, the science that studies life forms from the past by examining fossils.

22. (               ) A thin, sharp piece that has been cut or split off.

23. (               ) For a short period of time. Not permanently.

24. (               ) To do something to entertain an audience, such as act, sing, play music, or dance.

25. (               ) The condition or quality of being popular, or being very well liked.

26. (               ) To refuse to give up or to go on in a stubborn way.

27. (               ) A high, narrow column of air that is whirling very fast.

28. (               ) Long, slender, upright structures used as supports or as monuments. Columns.

29. (               ) A series of steps or degrees based on size, amount, or rank.

30. (               ) To introduce again.

31. (               ) A serious play with a sad ending. A very sad or tragic happening.

32. (               ) A certain point of view in understanding or judging things or events.

33. (               ) All the creatures living in a certain area.

34. (               ) An animal that feeds on rotting meat and garbage.

35. (               ) Particular moral qualities thought of as good. Right action and thinking.

36. (               ) To rule as a monarch.

37. (               ) Something given, said, or done to show thanks or respect.

38. (               ) Heaviness. The quality a thing has because of the pull of gravity on it. The measurement of how heavy something is.

39. (               ) To tell what one thinks will happen in the future.

40. (               ) People who offer to do something of his or her own free will.

41. (               ) The relation of one thing to another in size or amount. Proportion.

42. (               ) The act of rebelling or rising up against the government. A rebellion.

43. (               ) To discover or find by digging up from the earth.

44. (               ) People who fight or struggle against authority or any type of control

45. (               ) A safe, quiet place.

46. (               ) Shut off or kept apart from others.

47. (               ) The number obtained by dividing one number into another.

48. (               ) A penalty for doing something wrong.

49. (               ) A parallelogram with four equal sides and, usually, no right angles.

50. (               ) Living in or having to do with cities and town.

51. (               ) A jet-propelled device or vehicle, usually in the shape of a cylinder.

52. (               ) To move to a new location.

53. (               ) Rate of motion, derived from a formula using speed and direction. Quickness of motion.

54. (               ) A bright mineral, usually found as clear, glassy crystals, but also as colored stones which are used in jewelry.