Literacy Circles Word Enricher- The Egypt Game

Priestesses

Real meaning: A female priest

David: The Egyptian priestess

Riley: A woman that carries out religious ceremonies

Languishing

Real meaning: Grow weak or remain unpleasant

David: The same meaning as translate

Riley: Like frolicking or translating   

Clamored

Real meaning: A group of people shout loudly or demand

David: No idea

Riley: Continuing to do something for a long time.

Remedial

Real meaning: Giving as a remedy or a cure.

David: Tutor or something

Riley: Something a while ago like remedial potions

Medley

Real meaning: A multiple of sounds

David: Constant

Riley: A race like a 100 meter race

Sophisticated

Real meaning: Knowledgeable use of words 

David: not knowledge

Riley: In the present like we are an organized society

Persistent

Real meaning: Continuing firmly or obstinately in an opinion or course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition

David: Recognizable

Riley: Never letting someone get something
Sentence: Tyrone was the worst player on the basketball team but he was so persistent and tried so hard during training that the coach really admired his hard work.

Entitled

Real meaning: To give a person or a thing a title, right or a claim to something.

David:

Riley: Sent to 

Sentence: If a boy is born into a royal family he is entitled to automatically become a prince.

Petitions

Real meaning: Requesting to do something

David:

Riley: Requesting to do something

Scheme

Real meaning: Programming language

David: 

Riley: A plot

Disobedient

Real Meaning: Refusing to obey the rules

David:

Riley: Being bad
Sentence: Victorian schools were very strict and if any child was disobedient they would be beaten with a cane. 

Monolith

Real meaning: Geological features that contains a single rock 

David: 

Riley: No idea

Nudged

Real meaning: To gain someones attention by gently hitting them with your shoulder

David:

Riley: Touched
Sentence: In the theater Michael wanted to show Kelly a funny actor but talking was not allowed so he nudge her. 

Hunchback

Real meaning: When your back is curved

David: 

Riley: When your back is curved
Sentence: His back was abnormally curved so people gave him nicknames like the Hunchback of Notre Dame.