UNIT 5 A THE DNA TRAIL

LIKELY

PROBABLE

ANCESTOR

PERSON RELATED TO YOU WHO LIVED A LONG TIME AGO

DESCENDANT

PERSON RELATED TO YOU AND WHO LIVES AFTER YOU, SUCH AS YOUR CHILD OR GRANDCHILD

TO SPREAD OUT

TO FAN (nn) OUT (of a group of people) MOVE APART SO AS TO COVER A WIDER AREA

TO GIVE RISE TO

TO CAUSE STH

TRAIL

PATH, TRACK; SIGN, MARK

CONQUEST

VICTORY, TRIUMPH

TO EXPAND

TO EXTEND, TO GROW

PROOF

EVIDENCE

SCATTERED

ALL OVER THE PLACE, COVERING A WIDE AREA, SPREAD OUT

ARTEFACT

A HUMAN-MADE TOOL THAT IS HISTORICALLY OR CULTURALLY INTERESTING

TO TRACE

TO FIND, FOLLOW, TRACK

GENETICIST

THE PERSON WHO STUDIES GENETICS

IDENTICAL

EXACTLY THE SAME

THE BULK OF STH

MOST OF STH

TO PASS DOWN

TO BE INHERITED

ROUGH ("a rough idea of") (adj)

APPROXIMATE , CLOSE BUT NOT EXACT

ROUGHLY (adv)

APPROXIMATELY, NOT EXACTLY

RATE

SPEED

PUTATIVE

SUPPOSED, REPORTED

REMARKABLY

SURPRISINGLY, UNUSUAL

REMARKABLE

WORTHY OF ATTENTION, UNCOMMON

TO SPLIT (SPLIT/SPLIT)

TO DIVIDE

TO STALL

TO DELAY, TO STOP

TO COMMENCE (formal)

TO BEGIN

IMPERCEPTIBLE

UNABLE TO BE NOTICED

TO VANISH

TO DISAPPEAR

INDIGENOUS

NATIVE, LOCAL

TO PROVIDE

TO SUPPLY, TO GIVE

TO PEOPLE

TO INHABIT, TO POPULATE

EVENTUALLY

IN THE END

A HELL OF A

CONSIDERABLE (It can have BOTH POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE meanings). Used to empasize certain qualities about the noun it modifies.

IMMENSE

HUGE

MAINLAND

THE MAIN PART OF A COUNTRY OR CONTINENT, NOT INCLUDING THE ISLANDS

OUTLINE

SUMMARY, GENERAL DESCRIPTION

COUNTLESS

VERY MANY, A LARGE NUMBER OF

TO UNLOCK

DISCOVER IMPORTANT NEW FACTS ABOUT STH (uncover the mystery, secret of sth)

TO GATHER

TO COLLECT, ACCUMULATE, ASSEMBLE

TO LIGHT / LIT / LIT

TO ILLUMINATE, TO TAKE FIRE

A DROP

SMALL AMOUNT

NARROW

NOT WIDE

STEADY

REGULAR

BURIED (TO BURY)

PUT UNDER THE EARTH

TO REACH

TO ARRIVE AT , TO GET TO