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transient

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theater is to find way of talking about something that ’s really so transient,

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landmark

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It was the landmark production.

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track down

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track somebody / something ↔ down
phrasal verb
to find someone or something that is difficult to find by searching or looking for information in several different places:
I finally managed to track down the book you wanted in a shop near the station.
Detectives had tracked her down in California.

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roughly

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Approximately

which I am roughly defining as the period from 35,000 to 8,000 BC

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Hood

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كلاه پارچه اي

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tusk

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عاج

probably a mammoth’s tusk

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intact

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, and the layers are intact.

دست نخورده

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discard

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used for several generations before it was discarded

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carve out

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said the lady with the hood was carved out of ivory.

Ivory:عاج

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charcoal

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Charcoal

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Dye

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رنگ مو ،،

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chip off

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so you have to chip off bits of the object for testing.

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reluctant

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OPP. Willing

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Narrow

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Can we narrow it down?

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trend

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But trends in art in the last century or so certainly challenge that idea.

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legal

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I mean, I get the feeling that this is like a legal process, like building a legal case, the more pieces of evidence we have, the closer we get to the

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analogy

Analogy

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Great analogy

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oval

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بيضي

You are probably aware that the earth’s orbit around the sun, it is not shaped like a perfect circle. It is more of an oval,

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elliptical

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بيضي شكل

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hemisphere

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, the northern hemisphere,

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tilt

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The tilt of earth’s axis,

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precession

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Precession, basically is the change in the direction of earth’s axis of rotation.

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Skeptical

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many of his colleagues were skeptical

شكاك

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calcite

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كربنات كلسيم

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negate
deny
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Audition
I must have auditioned like ten times since I have been at the school,
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rehearse
she spent the whole afternoon rehearsing her speech
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obligation
And when you start having financial obligations, rents, taxes, you have to keep track of how often you pay.
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revolve
Egyptian life basically revolved around the mysterious rise and fall of the river.
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inundation inundate
سيل گرفتگي
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subsidence
Subsidence
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submerge
زير اب فرو كردن when the Nile valley was essentially submerged in water for a few months or soغ
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subside Subsidence
the water would subside, or recede, revealing a new layer of fertile black silt and allowing for the planting of various crops.
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constituite
and about four of the months would constitute a season
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glare
Actually, it’d be hidden in the glare of the Sun.
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dawn
سحر سپيده دم
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Lunar
Lunar moon
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bureaucratic purposes
bureaucratic purposes
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alongside
This administrative calendar existed alongside the earlier agricultural and religious calendar that depended on the heliacal rising of Sirius.
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Speckle
and it ’s speckled with dark spots.
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Sack
كيسه | Chromatophores consist of tiny sacks filled with color dye
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contract
But if the muscle’s contract, then the sack expands
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mimic
some animals mimic their environment | برخی حیوانات با محیط خود همگون میشوند.
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come in
so that’s where the second kind of cell comes in.
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projection
They have these little projections on their skin that allow them to resemble various textures. برامدگي
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squirt
I read that they often hide from predators by squirting out a cloud of ink, or something like that. Spray