archive
/ˈɑɹˌkaɪv/
nouna place or a collection of records or documents of historical importance
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1. The archives has an extraordinary amount of primary source material about slavery and emancipation.
2. Historians need archives.
3. Archive your stuff.
4. And the archive includes this absolutely wonderful collection of test phographs.
5. Newspaper archive goes back to 1759, 58.1 million newspaper pages.
bibliography
/ˌbɪbɫiˈɑɡɹəfi/
nounthe study of books' history, their classification, production, editions, etc.
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1. "Black Women in American," annotated bibliography by the anthropologist educator and future president of Spelman and Bennett colleges, Johnetta Cole.
2. A bibliography would be much more useful.
3. There's also a bibliography.
4. So the 30 pages of bibliography are online.
5. A true teacher, I say, who gives the bibliography at the end.
abolition
/ˌæbəˈɫɪʃən/
nounthe state of a law, system, or institution having been ended
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1. So this afternoon's panel is on abolition.
2. So abolition is presence, not absence.
3. Abolition is part of that freedom fight.
4. The abolition of slavery created a huge humanitarian crisis in the South.
5. Abolition, then, is much more about abundance than absence.
battlefield
/ˈbætəɫˌfiɫd/
nounan area where a battle is being or was fought
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1. First and foremost, not every game needs a battlefield.
2. Eventually, the whole group left the battlefield.
3. In the 12th century, a new catapult technology from Asia dominates the battlefield.
4. In the 12th century, a new catapult technology from Asia dominates the battlefields.
5. Battlefields were no longer called the field of glory.
shield
/ˈʃiɫd/
nouna large piece of armor made of strong material, carried on the arm by soldiers in the past
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1. Shield off.
2. Especially, shield your vulnerable head at all costs.
3. Now Professor Coquillette referenced the controversy over the former Law School shield two years ago.
4. This female walrus is shielding her pup.
5. - So the Bannon and Manafort pardons might not actually shield those criminals.
spear
/ˈspɪɹ/
nouna weapon with a long handle and a metal pointed tip, used for fighting and fishing in the past
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1. Spears are right in your face.
2. - Spear a pickle.
3. Spear me your feelings!
4. Spears admitted in the 2008 MTV documentary Britney:
5. Spear the meat with fondue forks or skewers.
tomahawk
/ˈtɑməˌhɔk/
nouna small-sized ax used by Native Americans for fighting or as a tool
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1. And then you pull out your tomahawk.
2. I got my own tomahawk, guys.
3. - It's a Tomahawk.
4. Short loins, bone-in ribeyes, Tomahawk steaks.
5. In front of me I have two Tomahawk ribeyes.
bow
/ˈbaʊ/, /ˈboʊ/
nouna curved weapon joined at both ends by a string, capable of shooting arrows
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1. Japanese people just bow.
2. Aha, bow flex machine.
3. Eight hundred fifty false prophets, the prophets of Asherah, had to bow their knees.
4. Bow your heads and pray.
5. - Nun chuck skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills.
dagger
/ˈdæɡɝ/
nouna short weapon with a pointed blade
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1. Inside of their togas, the conspirators hid daggers.
2. Your daggers no longer have any physical purchase in the creature.
3. - The dagger uses very little stamina.
4. So daggers were pretty much a universal weapon on the medieval battlefield.
5. - Daggers are good.
cannon
/ˈkænən/
nouna large and powerful gun that was used in the past to fire stone or metal balls
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1. The male version had cannons at the side.
2. Police, in turn, deployed water cannons.
3. Firing main cannon.
4. Cannon is shaking.
5. Fire the cannons!
carriage
/ˈkæɹɪdʒ/, /ˈkɛɹədʒ/
nouna vehicle with usually four wheels, pulled by one or more horses
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1. The carriage went quickly on.
2. Number one, the gun carriage itself.
3. He avoided carriages.
4. Sixteen horses pulled the heavy carriage.
5. Locals make such carriages in about 4 days.
chariot
/ˈtʃɛɹiət/
nouna vehicle with two wheels, drawn by horses, used in ancient times for warfare and racing
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1. Chariots were discarded, in favour of cavalry and infantry units.
2. Chariot's coming.
3. Chariot's coming.
4. Chariot's coming.
5. Chariot's coming.
dungeon
/ˈdəndʒən/
nounan underground room in which prisoners were confined, particularly in a castle
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1. Think dungeons, corporal punishment, and executions.
2. The active player explores the dungeon.
3. The dungeon is huge.
4. Who built the dungeon?
5. The dungeon master, dropped the mic on me.
fort
/ˈfɔɹt/
nouna building or group of buildings used by troops to protect an area
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1. The fort fell.
2. Fort to make.
3. - We built a fort. -
4. Build a fort!
5. Building a fort.
conqueror
/ˈkɑŋkɝɝ/
nounsomeone who forcibly takes control of a city or country and its citizens
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1. The conquerors also married the princesses and other noble women they had raped as a ritual of domination.
2. Hero conquerors villain.
3. I conqueror.
4. The conquerors exacted money, much money.
5. They are conquerors, colonists and destroyers.
successor
/səkˈsɛsɝ/
nounsomeone or something that succeeds another person or thing
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1. Alexey’s oldest son, Feodor, was his successor.
2. One of whom was Rick Scott's successor.
3. But his successor, Dilma Rousseff, approved just 21.
4. The direct-to-video successor made $300 million in VHS sales.
5. The successor was Richard II - second son of the Black Prince.
reign
/ˈɹeɪn/
nounthe period that a monarch rules
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1. The evil sorcerer still reigns!
2. Bacteria reigns supreme ♪ ♪
3. Cupcakes reign supreme in Washington, DC.
4. The philosophy of mercantilism reigned supreme as the most persuasive theory of economics until the 9th of March 1776 the publication date of possibly the most important book in the history of the modern world.
5. Three future kings, Sabium, Apil-Sin and Sin-muballit reigned over a subsequent half century of relative stability.
to crown
/ˈkɹaʊn/
verbto place a crown on someone's head in a ceremony so that person officially becomes a king or queen
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1. Her samba school was crowned champion 22 times.
2. I love crowns.
3. Uh, sway crown.
4. The baby is crowning.
5. The only real sharp part is that crown around their head.
peasant
/ˈpɛzənt/
nouna farmer who owns or rents a small piece of land, particularly in the past or in poorer countries
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1. No, I love peasants.
2. Peasants joined the army.
3. What you need, peasant?
4. The vast majority of the population are peasants.
5. Do all peasants eat that garbage?
primitive
/ˈpɹɪmətɪv/, /ˈpɹɪmɪtɪv/
adjectivecharacteristic of an early stage of human or animal evolution
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1. Primitive humans don't do manners.
2. Human beings were pretty primitive back then.
3. Here in the Boyaca region, the method of coal mining is primitive.
4. They also have primitive areas.
5. The work as an apprentice was very primitive.
datable
/dˈeɪɾəbəl/
adjectiveable to be dated to a specific time
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1. Number two, is it datable?
2. Some of the oldest known paintings, datable to around 30,000 BCE, can be found in the Chauvet Cave in southeastern France.
3. Looking at this super legit and highly valid online survey, it appears that surgeons are in fact the most attractive type of doctor, with 36% of women and 25% of men picking surgeons as the most datable type of medical professional.
4. You find it in datable places and that's why we can give this some kind of date, such as in Egypt.
5. She talks about other guys with you: If she’s asking about other guys and whether they are datable for her or not, chances are that she’s not interested in you.
prehistoric
/ˌpɹihɪˈstɔɹɪk/
adjectiverelated or belonging to the time before history was recorded
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1. It's just rotted, prehistoric fish.
2. And again, prehistoric animals win.
3. [Narrator] The art and architecture at Gobekli Tepe is rewriting prehistoric archeology.
4. In the foothills, away from the madness, prehistoric beasts emerge.
5. Their lineage is prehistoric. -
ice age
/ˈaɪs ˈeɪdʒ/
nounone of the periods in history when ice covered large parts of the world
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1. The Ice Age tundra could be an unforgiving place to live.
2. This fearsome Ice Age cat, the size of a modern-day tiger, had a pair of fangs nearly 18 centimeters long.
3. That's just after the Ice Age.
4. The Ice Age came.
5. When Ice Age came out, because Sid, the sloth.
stone age
/stˈoʊn ˈeɪdʒ/
nounthe early period of human history when people used things such as stone, horn, bone, etc. to make tools
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1. Normally in Stone Age, the youngest player goes first.
2. Stone Age tribes in Papua, New Guinea, had a term for this.
3. Weapons, that according to Haynes, Stone Age man possessed.
4. The kids are playing Stone Age.
5. Stone Age, that one's a huge win.
Bronze Age
/bɹˈɑːnz ˈeɪdʒ/
nounthe period when iron was not discovered and people used bronze to make tools
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1. And this brings up another feature of the ancient Near East in the late Bronze Age: warfare.
2. But the Bronze Age also lasted for about 2000 years, or some 50 generations.
3. The preservation of administrative data-- tax documents, receipts, wills, government orders, and so on-- have been characteristic of complex states since the Bronze Age.
4. Prior to that, the Bronze Age, which is divided into these three periods.
5. Now we can fast forward many thousands of years into the Bronze Age and beyond.
Iron Age
/ˈaɪɚn ˈeɪdʒ/
nounthe period that began about 1100 BC when people used iron tools for the first time
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1. This fortress, this Iron Age farm, the world's largest moose sculpture, this whaling museum, the Roald Amundsen and Edward Munch monuments and grave, the Kon Tiki museum, the Polaria Aquarium, the Æger viking-style brewery, the three swords monument, so many traditional stave churches.
2. Additionally, not all Celtic speakers in the early Iron Age would have belonged to the Hallstatt culture.
3. [Narrator] Archeologists believe these hilltop monuments are strong evidence of sun and sky worship during the Iron Age.
4. This was the good life, Iron Age style.
5. But David changed all of that, and he introduced the Iron Age to Israel.
golden age
/ɡˈoʊldən ˈeɪdʒ/
nouna period of great prosperity and success, particularly in the past
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1. The Golden Age for neon started around the 1970s.
2. the Golden Age is at hand.
3. Looking back down on Earth, Golden Age Islamic scholars made significant advancements in geography, as well as a very dear subject to Kings and Generals, cartography.
4. Poets called it the Golden Age.
5. For example, the nineteen thirties and forties were called the Golden Age of Radio.
medieval
/miˈdivəɫ/, /mɪˈdivəɫ/, /mɪdˈjivəɫ/
adjectivebelonging or related to the Middle Ages, which was the period between the 5th and 15th centuries
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1. Medieval people loved color, bright color, richness.
2. This is not a medieval dogma.
3. Like their modern counterparts, medieval diagrams demonstrate.
4. Still, at least my car wasn't medieval.
5. With hundreds of years of scribal practice behind them, medieval scribes had amassed a treasure chest of symbols.
Enlightenment
/ˌɛnˈɫaɪtənmənt/
nouna philosophical movement in the late 17th and 18th centuries that emphasized reason and science were of more importance than tradition and religion
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1. It is enlightenment.
2. Share the enlightenment of the order with others.
3. Enlightenment ideals center on four themes-- reason, science, humanism, and progress.
4. What are the Enlightenment values and--
5. So enlightenment in a way, is just a letting go.
civil war
/sˈɪvəl wˈɔːɹ/
nouna war that is between people who are in the same country
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1. In Yemen, for instance, a massive outbreak of cholera began in 2016 during a Civil War as the sewage system fell apart.
2. Civil war broke out.
3. The levels of violence by 1992 in KwaZulu-Natal, had already reached civil war proportions.
4. Now, redistribution of the land means civil war.
5. Yemen's civil war has long antecedents.
colonial
/kəˈɫoʊniəɫ/
adjectivecharacteristic of or related to a colony or colonialism
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1. Unfortunately, the entry of the French turned a colonial rebellion into a world war.
2. Colonial legislatures were not too excited by this idea for two reasons.
3. What was this colonial lobby?
4. Colonial wars, the involvement of the colonies in the two world wars, had major disease impacts.
5. These ideologies like Blanqueamiento and Mestizaje are very much colonial.
imperial
/ˌɪmˈpɪɹiəɫ/
adjectiverelated to an empire, emperor, or empress
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1. The shock of the incident destroyed the imperial family.
2. I hate imperial.
3. Imperial casualties were around 1 thousand.
4. The imperials had 27 field artillery pieces, likely of a heavier caliber than those of the Swedes.
5. Napoleon III wanted imperial splendor.
mythology
/məˈθɑɫəˌdʒi/
nouna collection of ancient myths, particularly one that belongs to a group of people and their history, etc.
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1. Mythology is a complicated subject.
2. The word 'narcissism' stems from Greek mythology.
3. I love mythology too much.
4. Remember your mythology?
5. Meaning mythology.
industrial revolution
/ɪndˈʌstɹɪəl ɹˌɛvəlˈuːʃən/
nounthe period of time in the 18th and 19th centuries that machines were used for the first time for mass production of goods, started in Britain
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1. The Industrial Revolution did.
2. one of the most exciting periods in history was the Industrial Revolution.
3. The Industrial Revolution completely changed that story.
4. Before the Industrial Revolution, people have a later breakfast and earlier supper.
5. The Industrial Revolution, of course, had a huge impact on the clothing industry.
pharaoh
/ˈfeɪɹoʊ/, /ˈfɛɹoʊ/
nouna title used for ancient Egyptian rulers
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1. The true triumphs of Hatshepsut’s reign as pharaoh came from trade and construction.
2. Okay, roll up on Pharaoh.
3. He married a daughter of Pharaoh.
4. Pharaoh represents fear.
5. I'm the pharaoh.
archeology
/ˌɑɹkiˈɑɫədʒi/
nounthe study of civilizations of the past and historical periods by the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains
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1. Archeology is my profession.
2. So archeology occurs in interesting places.
3. But in the process, archeology left the public behind.
4. [Narrator] The art and architecture at Gobekli Tepe is rewriting prehistoric archeology.
5. Oh you know, archeology.
bloodline
/ˈbɫədˌɫaɪn/
nounall family members of a person over several generations, particularly a notable person
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1. Get that bloodline out of there.
2. Bloodline revolves around the Rayburns, a large family residing in the Florida Keys.
3. -This is our bloodline.
4. And then the bloodline gets so incestuous.
5. Bloodline will be released on May 3rd.
artifact
/ˈɑɹtəˌfækt/
nouna man-made object, tool, weapon, etc. that was created in the past and holds historical or cultural significance
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1. None of these have artifacts.
2. - Artifacts love them.
3. -Every artifact has a biography, of course.
4. Today's word is artifact.
5. But the Indus people also left behind artifacts with writing on them.
war-torn
/wˈɔːɹtˈɔːɹn/
adjective(of a country or place) damaged or destroyed severely as an aftermath of war
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1. I worked in war-torn LIBERIA, POST conflict in 2008 to continue STALLING because that was easier than breaking their HEARTS.
2. My first anniversary was spent in a war-torn COUNTRY, in IRAQ.
ranged weapon
/reɪnʤd ˈwɛpən/
nounany weapon that is capable of hitting a target at a distance beyond the reach of hands
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melee weapon
/ˈmɛleɪ ˈwɛpən/
nouna hand-held weapon such as a sword, spear, etc., used when one attacks enemies at a close range
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1. The problem with taking Omni-Man on with any kind of melee weapon, even if you have super-strength yourself, is that his experience and combat training puts him at a clear advantage.
2. Delsin wages war on the Department of Unified Protection's soldiers with his smoke powers, other powers yet to be revealed, and a chain-like melee weapon that seems to take the place of Cole's Amp.
3. Movement is lightning fast and incredibly versatile, and every gun and melee weapon feels unique.
machete
/məˈʃɛˌti/, /məˈtʃɛˌti/
nouna long knife that has a wide and heavy blade, used as a weapon or a tool to cut plants and trees
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1. Every Foley stage probably has a machete.
2. - Got the machetes.
3. - Come on, machete!
4. Others are sharpening their machetes.
5. - I outta carry a machete next time.
spartan
/ˈspɑɹtən/
adjectiverelating to a city-state in ancient Greece called Sparta or its people
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1. The Athenians can’t match the formidable Spartan army on land.
2. On the day of their birth, elder Spartan leaders examined every newborn.
3. Spartan girls lived at home with their mothers as they attended school.
4. She had a spartan upbringing.
5. She had a spartan upbringing.
