Martin was sure that he was the _____ speller in the class.

Having leaned back in his chair, the lawyer began reading the fine print of the contract very ______.

Norman reads ______ for a child of seven.

Of all of your sisters, who is the ______?

The senator seemed ______ in his opposition to the proposal.

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Before the 1800s, much about life in ancient Egypt was unknown because nobody could read hieroglyphics.

Then a black stone found in the Nile delta made the study of ancient Egypt more popular than ever before.

Found in 1799 near a village called Rosetta, archaeologists called the stone the Rosetta Stone.

The slab was inscribed across its polished surface with three bands of writing, each in a different language: hieroglyphics on the top, another unknown language in the middle, and Greek on the bottom.

Scholars could almost read all of the Greek writing, which stated that each of the three bands contained the same decree in honor of Ptolemy V.

Full of excitement, it was hoped by archaeologists that they could use the Greek part to figure out the hieroglyphics.

But progress in translating the individual hieroglyphics went very slow.

Until this time, archaeologists thought that each symbol stood for a whole word.

However, a French scholar working on the Rosetta Stone named Jean Francois Champollion wondered why it took more hieroglyphic symbols than Greek words to write the same message.

He correctly guessed that certain symbols stand for parts of words, and after working hard for twenty years, many of the signs were proved to stand for sounds.