Unit 1: The Egypt Game

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  1. deadpan
    speak in a deliberately impassive or serious manner
  2. cultivate
    teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
  3. showboat
    attract attention onto oneself
  4. omen
    a sign of a thing about to happen
  5. rite
    an established ceremony prescribed by a religion
  6. procession
    the action of a group moving ahead in regular formation
  7. prostration
    the action of lying face downward
  8. dutiful
    willingly obedient out of a sense of respect
  9. disobedient
    not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority
  10. summon
    ask to come
  11. conscience
    motivation deriving from ethical or moral principles
  12. unwieldy
    difficult to use or handle because of size or weight
  13. fiendish
    extremely evil or cruel
  14. casualty
    someone injured or killed in an accident
  15. decipher
    convert something hidden or secretive into ordinary language
  16. rendezvous
    a meeting planned at a certain time and place
  17. pilgrimage
    a journey to a sacred place
  18. regal
    belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
  19. preside
    act as executive officer
  20. steadfast
    marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
  21. commotion
    a disorderly outburst or tumult
  22. alibi
    proof that someone accused of a crime could not have done it
  23. consensus
    agreement in the judgment reached by a group as a whole
  24. speculate
    talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way
Created on Fri Mar 12 09:16:27 EST 2021 (updated Mon Mar 29 09:44:04 EDT 2021)

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