If Stones Could Speak Vocabulary

"...they were ending the era in which one single archaeologist could be the voice of the past."

What is the meaning of archaeologist as it is used in context?

• someone who studies the past through the artifacts/features left behind

• someone who looks at the sky to study the stars for future events

• someone who creates a program to study current events

• someone who likes to read about historical events

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.4

"Really it is about putting aside what you think you know, what has been passed along, and being willing to trust what you yourself see and to test it rigorously."

What is the meaning of rigorously as it is used in context?

• patiently; calmly

• quietly; secretly

• thoroughly; carefully

• aloofly; witout concern

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.4

"Perhaps, the TV director thought, a person from a society that treats stone as so important would have a fresh insight into Stonehenge."

What is the meaning of insight as it is used in context?

• a look into something

• no understanding at all

• very little understanding

• a deep understanding

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.4

Which word does NOT belong?

• traces

• layers

• remnants

• relics

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.4

"...there could also have been a second circle, made of tall timbers, for the living...The Southern Circle, another ancient site quite near Stonehenge, had been built out of wood..."

What is the meaning of timbers as it is used in context?

• glass beams

• metal beams

• wooden beams

• plastic beams

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.4

"...the entire outer ring of sarsens was connected by lintels. These crossing stones were held in place with a mortise and tenon joint.

What is the meaning of lintels as it is used in context?

• horizontal support across the bottom of something

• horizontal support across the top of something

• vertical support in the middle of something

• vertical support on the outside of something

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.4

"Ramilisonina thought Stonehenge must have been built to usher, to welcome, the honored dead into their permanent home."

What is the meaing of usher as it is used in context?

• to show or guide somewhere

• to prevent from entering somewhere

• to ask for directions somewhere

• to block access to somewhere

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.4

"Or might they find remains of even older ancient camp sites where people had collected the eggshells of extinct giant elephant birds, the largest avian species that ever lived."

What is the meaning of species as it is used in context?

• someone or something that is NOT very special

• kinds or types of organisms that are like each other

• kinds or types of organisms that are unlike each other

• someone or something that is very special

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.4

"Each morning, Mike and his team emerged from their tents, climbed into the Land Rover, and headed out to look for archaeological sites."

What does emerged mean as it is used in context?

• entered into

• rode inside of

• came out of

• climbed ontop of

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.4

"Stonehenge itself has almost no remains showing that it was used by people--just a few handfuls of broken pots and animal bones, sparse remnants of food they might have eaten in a ceremony."

What is the meaning of sparse as it is used in context?

• to spare someone of something

• no evidence of anything

• a lot of scattered amounts

• a few or scattered amounts

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.4