Egyptian

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to make someone less angry or stop them from attacking you by giving them what they want
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appease
The banquets were to appease the gods
something that you get legally from your work in addition to your wages, such as goods, meals, or a car
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perk
The banquets may have been welcomed as a perk of the job
relating to the heart and blood vessels (= tubes that carry blood around the body):
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cardiovascular
the banquets increased their chances of cardiovascular disease
a system for controlling or managing a country, company, or organization that is operated by officials who are employed to follow rules carefully:
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bureaucracy
plural bureaucracies
The priests, a powerful bureaucracy under the pharaohs
a bird, such as a chicken, that is kept for its meat and eggs, or the meat of this type of bird
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fowl
The priests would place vast plates of roast fowl before a god’s statue
existing or being produced in large quantities
Pol. obfity
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copious
copious quantities of wine
to make something known publicly, or to show something that was hidden:
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disclose
Egyptologists have disclosed the cost of keeping the gods happy.
words that are written or cut in something:
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inscription
hieroglyphic inscriptions on temple walls
a form of arteriosclerosis (= hardening of the arteries, the thick tubes carrying blood from the heart) that is caused by a fatty substance building up inside the arteries
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atherosclerosis
they have assessed their atherosclerosis
one of the thick tubes that carry blood from the heart to other parts of the body:
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artery
they assessed the build-up of fat and calcium in the arteries
spending a lot of time sitting down, and not moving or exercising very much
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sedentary
a sedentary life
a sudden change in the blood supply to a part of the brain, sometimes causing a loss of the ability to move particular parts of the body:
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stroke
a sedentary life made strokes a modern killer
completely clear and without any possibility of doubt
Pol. jednoznaczny
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unequivocal
There is unequivocal evidence that atherosclerosis is a disease of ancient times
a person who owns or rents a small piece of land and grows crops, keeps animals, etc. on it, especially one who has a low income, very little education, and a low social position.
This is usually used of someone who lived in the past or of someone in a poor country:
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peasant
the simple peasant diet were cereals and vegetables.
(French) memorandum, a note of things to be remembered
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aide memoire
Inscriptions on temple walls acted as an aide memoire for priests on performing the rituals.
literary heavily loaded with something, or containing a lot of something
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laden
Many of the items, not least goose, were laden with saturated fats.
to make something completely clean
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cleanse
The job of the priests was to perform rituals on behalf of the king: to feed, cleanse the god in his temple sanctuary.
the people who live in a country
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populace
the statues would not be seen by the populace
a chemical used to stop food from decaying:
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preservative
Salt was used as a preservative.
behaving in a way that is dishonest or unfair in order to get what you want:
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unscrupulous
sometimes unscrupulous priests took the divine rations from the temple

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