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House of the Scorpion vocabulary words By: Ben burket

By: Ben Burket Words you'll be learning: aristocrats and ibises. House of the Scorpion vocabulary words By: Ben burket . Aristocrats. Definitions.

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House of the Scorpion vocabulary words By: Ben burket

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  1. By: Ben Burket Words you'll be learning: aristocrats and ibises House of the Scorpion vocabulary wordsBy: Ben burket

  2. Aristocrats

  3. Definitions • Definitions: A member of an aristocracy especially a noble. A person who has tastes manners etc. characteristics of a member of an aristocracy. An advocate of an aristocratic form of government. Anything regarded as the best most elegant or most stylish of its kind.

  4. Synonyms and Antonyms • Synonyms: patrician, peer, lord • Antonyms: Commoner, plebian, proletariat

  5. Origin and examples • Origin: comes from France aristocrate, back formation from aristocratie • Examples: Russian czars, kings and queens

  6. ibises

  7. Definitions • Any of several large wading birds of the family Threskiornithidae. • Any of certain similar birds belonging to the stork family.

  8. Synonyms • Heron, storks and flamingos

  9. Origin • Middle English<Latin ibis<Greek ibis< Egyptian hb

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