Vocabulary 12

[n] the act or preying on other animals; killing and eating other animals

• frill

• paleontologist

• predation

• vicious

[n] a person who studies the fossils of animals and plants that lived a very long time ago

• frill

• paleontologist

• predation

• vicious

[n] a fringe of long hairs or feathers or a projection of bone or cartilage growing on or around the neck of an animal

• frill

• paleontologist

• predation

• vicious

[adj] very dangerous; violent and cruel

• frill

• paleontologist

• predation

• vicious

[n] a word or group of words that combines with a noun or pronoun to form a phrase that acts as an adverb, adjective, or noun

• autobiography

• content

• preposition

• prepositional

[n] the subject or topic treated in a written work

• autobiography

• content

• preposition

• prepositional phrase

[n] a phrase that begins with a preposition and ends in a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase

• autobiography

• content

• preposition

• prepositional phrase

[n] a biography of a person written by that person

• autobiography

• content

• preposition

• prepositional phrase