SA 6th Reading vocab
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- impoverish
- very poor
- yucca
- a plant with white flowers and large leaves shaped like swords in a cluster
- arroyo
- a small gulch or gulley
- preserved
- to save from destruction or decay
- mesa
- high flat land like a plateau , but smaller
- pinion
- a kind of pine tree with seeds that can be eaten
- observatory
- a place that is designed for astonomers to study stars
- ancestor
- a fore father
- exploration
- trips where people search or explore
- excavate
- to hollow out
- adobe
- sundried brick
- deter
- to prevent
- encrusted
- covered with
- cliff dwellings
- a home that is built inside a cave on the side of a hill or one that is built on a cliff ledges
- turquoise
- a semiprecious stone of bluish green color
- awl
- a pointed tool for poking holes in things
- fraud
- an imposter
- mirage
- something that appears but it is not really there
- prehistoric
- belonging to a time before history was written down
- civilization
- a culture, society of human beings who have developed education, agriculture, trade, science, art, gov't, and so on
- retaining wall
- a wass constructed to keep warth from pouring or washing away
- pueblos
- a group of adobe dwellings set into cliffs and reached by ladders
- Wash (n)
- an area of dry land that has been shaped partly by the action of ater moving over it.
- platues
- a stable land
- depression
- a shallow hole ot dent
- hogans
- the rounded log and mud dwelling of the Navajo
- cradle boards
- a wooden frame that native american women wore on their backs to carry their babies
- mason's trowel
- a brick builder's shovel
- etching
- to produce a design by making furrows on ahand arved surfaces