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Associations of "Delves" (30 Words)
| archaeologist | An anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture. Chinese archaeologists uncovered life sized terracotta statues. |
| burrow | Dig into or through something solid. Journalists are burrowing into the prime minister s business affairs. |
| colliery | A workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it. |
| coxswain | The person who steers a ship’s boat, racing boat, or other boat. |
| dig | An act or spell of digging. Authorities cause chaos by digging up roads. |
| disinter | Discover (something that is well hidden. His corpse was disinterred and dumped in a pit. |
| dug | An udder or breast or teat. |
| excavate | Reveal or extract (buried remains) while excavating an area. Clothing and weapons were excavated from the burial site. |
| excavation | The site of an archeological exploration. Inside the excavation were the bones of some huge creature. |
| exhume | Expose (a land surface) that was formerly buried. Various landforms have been exhumed from beneath a covering of Triassic sediments. |
| furrow | Cut a furrow into a columns. Gorges furrowing the deep sea floor. |
| gold | Made of or coloured like gold. 9 carat gold. |
| granite | Something having the quality of granite unyielding firmness. Granite columns. |
| gravel | A stratum or deposit of gravel. The wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child. |
| groove | Make a groove or grooves in. The rhythm section grooves in the true Basie manner. |
| harrow | Draw a harrow over land. Todd could take it whereas I m harrowed by it. |
| hole | Hit the ball into the hole. George holed a six iron shot from the fairway. |
| inhume | Place in a grave or tomb. No hand his bones shall gather or inhume. |
| investigate | Investigate scientifically. Everyone with a possible interest in your brother s death must be thoroughly investigated. |
| mine | Lay mines. The Vietnamese mined Cambodia. |
| pit | An orchestra pit. The recent protests over planned pit closures. |
| plow | To break and turn over earth especially with a plow. Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week. |
| quarry | Extract stone or other materials from a quarry. A British term for quarry is stone pit. |
| scoop | The quantity a scoop will hold. He got a scoop on the bribery of city officials. |
| seed | Of a plant reproduce itself by means of its own seeds. Seed grapes. |
| shovel | Move coal earth snow or a similar substance with a shovel. A few shovels of earth. |
| tiller | Grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers. |
| turnover | The ratio of the number of workers that had to be replaced in a given time period to the average number of workers. An apple turnover. |
| underground | An underground railway especially the one in London. Sections of electricity line had been undergrounded. |
| unearth | Bring to light. The CIA unearthed a plot to kill the President. |