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  1. artifact
    a man-made object
    The TIGHAR office is crammed with documents and artifacts from downed aircraft found all over the world.
  2. epaulet
    an ornamental cloth pad worn on the shoulder
    The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery — that's TIGHAR for short — is run out of a converted garage in Rick Gillespie's split level home in suburban Wilmington, Del. Gillespie's khaki shirt has epaulets and the words "Search Crew" stitched on the front.
  3. indentation
    the space left between the margin and a line set in
    On the inside surface there's an indentation and within that indentation, stamped into the rubber are the words "Cat's Paw Rubber Company, USA."
  4. sextant
    an instrument for measuring angular distance
    "He finds a box that had once contained a nautical sextant.
  5. forensic
    used in the investigation of facts or evidence in court
    Rick Gillespie of TIGHAR sent these numbers to forensic anthropologist Karen Burns at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte.
  6. infest
    occupy in large numbers or live on a host
    It's uninhabited now, infested with giant crabs and black-tipped reef sharks.
  7. err
    make a mistake
    Hoodless was not a bone specialist and could easily have erred, Burns says.
  8. relic
    an antiquity that has survived from the distant past
    A nearly 800-year-old relic was stolen from St. Anthony's Church in Long Beach, Calif.

    After a stolen Ferrari was recovered, an insurance company says the FBI wrecked it on a joy ride.
  9. identification
    the act of designating something
    The bones were shipped to a Dr. D. W. Hoodless in Suva, Fiji, to see if he could make a basic identification.
  10. expedition
    an organized group of people undertaking a journey
    The evidence was too thin, so Gillespie mounted another expedition in 1996.
Created on 六月 14, 2011

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