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30 Cards in this Set
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Canoe
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narrow, light boat with its sides meeting in a sharp edge at each end
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kayak
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Eskimo canoe made with skins stretched over a wood frame leaving only an opening for the paddler
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cotton
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shrubby plant and the soft, white seed hairs it produces used to make cloth
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dye
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substance used to give color
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basket
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container made of interwoven cane or similar material
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maize
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corn
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turnip
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biennail plalnt of the mustard family with edible leaves and roundish root used as a vegetable
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orchard
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an area of land devoted to raising fruit or nut trees
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avocado
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thick skinned, pear-shaped tropical fruit
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papaya
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tropical American fruit -large, oblong, yellowish-orange, melon shaped
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diet
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what a person or animal usually eats and drinks
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aqueduct
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large conduit or pipe for bringing water from a distant source
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stucco
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plaster or cement used for surfacing walls
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tortillas
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thin, flat, round cakes of unleavened cornmeal baked on a griddle; staple food throughtout Mexico
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adobe
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unburnt, sundried brick
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pueblo
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communial village of flat-roofed structures of stone or adobe arranged in terraces and housing a number of families
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ornate
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heavily adorned
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leather
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material consisting of animal skin prepared for use by removing the hair and tanning
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tobacco
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tropicla American plant cultivated for the leaves to be used for smoking, chewing, or snuffing
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cocoa
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powder made from caocao seeds that have been roasted and ground, with some of the fat removed
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gourds
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dried,hollowed out shell of the fruit of a climbing plant
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terrace
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series of flat platforms of earth with solping sides, rising one above the other
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plantain
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tropical banana plant with a coarse fruit eaten as a cooked vegetable
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litter
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framework enclosing a couch on which a person can be carried
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astronomer
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an expert on stars, planets, and all heavenly bodies
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loincloth
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a cloth worn about the loins
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decorative
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something added to make more attractive
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elaborate
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highly ornamented or complicated
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ornaments
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anything that serves to decorate
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glyph
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pictograph or symbolic character
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