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_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ Write the letter of the meaning of the word in the blank. Aim for one minute per group; 5 minutes for each side to pass. GROUP ONE figure skating A a game played by two teams on ice participate B amusement event C someone trained in sports athlete D someone who does something for pleasure, not money amateur E the sport of racing on skates compete F a large area where people go to ice skate Special Olympics G one item in a sports program ice rink H to take part in something ice hockey I skating that involves dance-like turns and jumps athletic J of athletes; strong and active recreation K a sports program for persons with mental disabilities speed skating L to try to win a contest GROUP TWO canvas artistic competition Olympic Games portrait wreath mural abstract sculpture realistic figure art gallery GROUP THREE totem pole chisel Renaissance sculptor scaffold gargoyle inhabit ancestor custom community native people GROUP FOUR belief society conduct tradition Cherokee generation method material tribe foundation culture diplomat

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a contest an arrangement of flowers and leaves, usually in a circle the world's biggest sporting competiton a heavy cotton cloth that artist paint on like the real thing; lifelike a room or building for showing works of art not representing any actual object showing or done with skill; of art or artists a picture of someone, especially of the face a large picture painted on a wall or ceiling the art of carving or modeling figures, or a figure made in this way a form or shape, especially of a human.

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usual way of behaving or doing something a group living in one place and considered as a whole an artist who makes sculptures a wooden pole carved with images of natural objects a race; a nation to live in a stone carving in the shape of a strange animal or human a time of great advances in art and science between the 14th and 17th centuries someone from whom you are a descendant originally living in a place to cut and shape something using a tool with a sharpened edge at one end a wooden or metal structure that construction workers stand on

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a Native American nation a community formed under one leader or group of leaders the beliefs and customs of a people someone whose work is to handle the relations of his country with other nations. a custom or belief that is handed down over tme what one believes is true an organized community a particular way of doing something what a thing is made from or used for a way of acting in particular situations all the people born in or about the same time a strong base from which a building is built up

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GROUP FIVE mason plumber frame construct concrete electrician estimate architect Panama Canal carpenter craft manual GROUP SIX teammate substitute regulation dribble opponent goalkeeper international stadium spectator tournament match host GROUP SEVEN football pose World Cup association choreography entertain melody harmony ballet graceful rhythm emotion GROUP EIGHT opera composer waltz choreographer performance jazz labor purchase debt value exchange income

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a mixture of cement with sand and gravel a human-made waterway that links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans a rigid structure that supports other parts of the building someone who designs and makes plans for buildings to put something together to carefully guess someone who builds with brick and stone someone who installs or repairs electric wiring, lights, etc. someone who puts in and repairs water pipes, sinks, etc. someone who builds and repairs things made of wood of or done with the hands a kind of work that requires skill

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a large building with rows of seats surrounding a playing field someone who watches without taking part to hold a contest in one's own country for other countries a rule someone who is on the other side in a sport a fellow member of a team to move a ball along by giving it short kicks a player who tries to keep the ball from entering the goal someone who takes the place of another player a group of contest testing the skills of many people in some sport between or among two or more countries a game or contest

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the biggest soccer tournament a group of people joined together for some purpose what soccer is called in most countries an elaborate dance performed by a group by a group stage beautiful in form or movement a strong feeling of any kind to amuse and delight someone the steps and movements for a dance to hold your body in a fixed position a pleasing or easily remembered series of musical notes the beat that music has the sounding of two or more musical tones that go well together

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someone who writes music a show such as a concert, play, etc. a special kind of play in which actors sing their lines something owed to someone else to trade money that someone earns or receives a kind of music invented by African-Americans a person who plans dances a ballroom dance work, employment to buy something usefulness or worth of something

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GROUP NINE jewelry valuable deposit expedition scarce mining legend antique barter fantastic currency myth GROUP TEN literature witness scientific folktale UFO unknown layout lagoon alien hoax unicorn science fiction GROUP ELEVEN advertisement the press publication sensational feature media influence article publish edit journalist interview GROUP TWELVE editorials classify mammal photographer nurse objective scaly survive defend react backbone reptile

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a mass of some mineral in rock or in the ground a journey rings, necklaces, bracelets, etc. something made long ago to trade something you have for something you want paper money and metal coins the process of removing metals, etc., from the earth hard to get or find; rare worth a lot of money strange and wonderful a sory coming down from the past, usually about a person a story that usually attempts to explain something in nature

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a story or legend crated by and handed down among common people any written material such as stories, poems and plays something that is not unknown a trick, especially a made-up story passed off as true an imaginary creature from outer space stories that combine science and imagination a mythical animal that looks like a horse how the advertisements, stories and pictures are placed in a publication someone who saw something happen using the facts and laws of science an object seen flying in the sky or landing on earth which cannot be identified a kind of pond or small lake

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means of communication such as newspapers, television, etc. a book, etc., released to the public trying to stir up strong or excited feelings about something someone who presents news in newspapers, magazines, or on TV, etc. to prepare something to be published the power to get another person to think in a certain way a paid announcement to give special attention to something the print media and reporters a report, essay, or story in a newspaper, magazine or book to prepare and offer for sale any printed material, etc. to ask someone questions at a meeting

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someone who makes a living by taking pictures based on fact and not opinion articles in newspapers or other media that express opinions the main bone in the middle of the back covered with scales an animal group that has scales, backbones and lays eggs to act in response to arrange into groups or classes to give milk to a baby at the breast an animal group that has backbones, usually hair and nurses its young to protect to continue to live

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GROUP THIRTEEN alligator tortoise adapt instinct behavior equator preserve wilderness magnificent wildlife refuge desert GROUP FOURTEEN recycle pollute environment container reduce fertilizer assemble mechanical disposable fabric conservationist landfill GROUP FIFTEEN industry freight production workshop fuel population textile reaper locomotive railways steamboat transportation GROUP SIXTEEN humid temperature rainfall forecast atmosphere snowstorm blizzard windstorm hurricane tornado climate thunderstorm

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to get used to something a way of acting the ability to know how to do something without learning how to do it a land with almost no water or plants wonderful to look at to keep from harm, protect a place to go for safety or protection an area of natural land wild animals and plants a turtle that lives on land an imaginary circle around the middle of the earth a large reptile with a broad snout

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anything used to hold or store things the world of land, water, air something added to soil to make it produce more someone who works to protect the great outdoors can be thrown away after one use a garbage dump to make smaller in size or amount to treat or process something so that it can be used again to make land, water or air dirty to put together a woven or knitted cloth made or worked by machinery

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the people living in a place the act or process of making something a shop or building where work is done a large engine used to pull railroad trains a boat moved by steam the act of moving people or goods the goods that a train,. Ship, etc. carries anything burned to give heat or power the production of goods, especially in factories fabric tracks that trains run on a machine used to cut and harvest grain

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how hot or cold something is the gases that surround the earth very damp and usually hot a storm with very heavy winds and rain the kind of weather a place has over a long period of time a heavy snowstorm to predict what the weather will be like a storm with lots of snow the amount of rain that falls a storm with thunder and lightning a very destructive funnel-shaped windstorm a storm with much wind but little or no rain.

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holy radar prophet faith air mass hail ceremony funeral superior formal religion worship GROUP EIGHTEEN kimono reincarnation marriage pilgrim passage graduation tartar fluoride oral plaque cavity decay GROUP NINETEEN nearsighted vibration vision farsighted eardrum infection hearing aids amber orthodontist petrify primary teeth triceratops GROUP TWENTY ancient theory tyrannosaur mammoth evidence remains saber-toothed tiger meteor Ice Age prey prehistoric tropical

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a device used to track movement of things a system of faith and worship air that is the same throughout a large region higher in position, rank or importance small balls of ice showing great honor and respect a strong belief a special act done on special occasions given or belonging to God or a particular religion someone who claims to speak for God according to set customs or rules a ceremony for burying a dead person

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a ceremony for awarding a person who finishes a course of study in a school married life a sticky film left on teeth by food and germs a hole in a tooth the act or fact of passing or moving along a Japanese robe worn with a sash a hard, yellowinsh substance that forms on th teeth a substance that helps prevent cavities a person who gtravels long distances to worship at holy sites being born again after death to become rotten of or in the mouth

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the ability to see a part inside the ear that makes hearing possible a dentist who can correct bite problems and straighten teeth to turn into stone The state produced by the establishment of a hamful agent in a host a rapid movement back and forth small, electronic devices that make sounds louder a plant-eating dinosaur with three large horns the first set of teeth which appear when a person is a baby hardened tree sap able to see distant things more clearly than close things able to see close things more clearly than distant things

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belonging to times long past proof what is left an animal that is hunted of times before histories were written a cat-like animal with two long upper teeth of or like regions near the equator when ice covered parts of the earth more than 10,000 years ago a piece of stone or metal that comes toward earth from outer space an explanation of something a large elephant with hairy skin and long, curved tusks a huge, flesh eating dinosaur