Reading Vocab

Front 1

Complicated; made up of many details.

Back 1

Intricate

Front 2

the place where things were, are, or will be located

Back 2

Sites

Front 3

a large area made up of many territories under one government

Back 3

Empire

Front 4

defeated in battle

Back 4

Conquered

Front 5

the region within close range of a particular place

Back 5

Vicinity

Front 6

to supervise; to keep watch over.

Back 6

Monitor

Front 7

to show clearly

Back 7

Demonstrate

Front 8

a person specially trained to design and build machines and systems

Back 8

Engineer

Front 9

to determine or explain the meaning of something

Back 9

Interpret

Front 10

a room or building equipped for scientific research or experiments

Back 10

Labratory

Front 11

to decorate

Back 11

Adorn

Front 12

a major city; a center of culture

Back 12

Metropolis

Front 13

a gift given to those in power by people who have been defeated or want protection

Back 13

Tributes

Front 14

a raised roadway across water or marshland

Back 14

Causeway

Front 15

items for sale

Back 15

Goods

Front 16

large and solid

Back 16

Massive

Front 17

a green spot in a desert, where water can be found

Back 17

Oasis

Front 18

a vehicle designed to explore the surface of a planet

Back 18

Rover

Front 19

the separation of a substance into its parts in order to study each part

Back 19

Analysis

Front 20

main; basic

Back 20

Primary

Front 21

a controlled change in the movement or direction of a vehicle

Back 21

Maneuvers

Front 22

to pretend in an imitation of something

Back 22

Simulate

Front 23

a scientist who specializes in the study of the sea

Back 23

Oceanographer

Front 24

a group of followers

Back 24

Entourage

Front 25

the trading of goods, without the exchange of money

Back 25

Bartering

Front 26

the science of design, building, and flying rockets

Back 26

Rocketry

Front 27

a sensitive device that responds to changes in the environment

Back 27

Sensors

Front 28

a collection of wild animals

Back 28

Menagerie

Front 29

like gelatin; thick and slow to flow

Back 29

Gelatinous

Front 30

a file of vehicles or pack animals traveling together

Back 30

Caravans

Front 31

someone who plans, records, and controls the course of a ship or plane

Back 31

Navigator

Front 32

the design and construction of aircraft

Back 32

Aeronautics

Front 33

seeing objects in 3-D

Back 33

Stereoscopic

Front 34

a person who requests employment or acceptance

Back 34

Applicants

Front 35

the greatest distance over which it is possible to see

Back 35

Visibility

Front 36

a piece of property, usually a ship at sea, that has been deserted by its owner

Back 36

Derelict

Front 37

an anchored float, often with a bell or lights, used on a lake or ocean to mark safe passage or to warn of danger

Back 37

Buoy

Front 38

to doubt the truth of something or regard it as a wild exaggeration

Back 38

discount

Front 39

one of the long, elastic narrow limbs of an animal, used to feel, grasp, or move

Back 39

Tentacle

Front 40

impossible to measure

Back 40

Unfathomable

Front 41

a request for information

Back 41

Inquiry

Front 42

a craft that operates under water

Back 42

submersible

Front 43

one of a large group of hard-shelled animals that have jointed parts and live mostly in the water

Back 43

Crustacean

Front 44

to move in smooth, wavy motion

Back 44

Undulates

Front 45

one of the walls that divides the cabin of a ship into compartments

Back 45

Bulkhead

Front 46

the left side of a ship as one faces forward

Back 46

Port Side