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Word Pyramids: World Countries XVIII
In these Word Pyramids, the first letter is given to you (which is the first answer). Use the clues to build the pyramid to find the answer. In each consecutive answer, a letter is added to the previous answer. However, the answer letters might not be in the same order. Good Luck!!
Starting letter: D
Clues:
1. A suffix meaning in the direction of or toward.
2. A unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation, equal to 100 ergs per gram or 0.01 joules per kilogram of irradiated material. It has been replaced as a standard scientific unit by the gray.
3. Lacking moisture, especially having insufficient rainfall to support trees or woody plants.
4. Any of several units of gold and silver currency formerly used in the Middle East.
5. American astronaut who as a crew member of Apollo 11 became the second person to walk on the moon (July 20, 1969).
6. This country borders one other country, two seas and one ocean.
Starting letter: D
Clues:
1. A suffix meaning in the direction of or toward.
2. A unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation, equal to 100 ergs per gram or 0.01 joules per kilogram of irradiated material. It has been replaced as a standard scientific unit by the gray.
3. Lacking moisture, especially having insufficient rainfall to support trees or woody plants.
4. Any of several units of gold and silver currency formerly used in the Middle East.
5. American astronaut who as a crew member of Apollo 11 became the second person to walk on the moon (July 20, 1969).
6. This country borders one other country, two seas and one ocean.
Hint
Celtic tribes arrived on the island between 600-150 B.C.Answer
DAD
RAD
ARID
DINAR
ALDRIN
IRELAND
Ireland is located in Western Europe, occupying five-sixths of the island of Ireland in the North Atlantic Ocean, west of Great Britain. Invasions by Norsemen that began in the late 8th century were finally ended when King Brian BORU defeated the Danes in 1014. English invasions began in the 12th century and set off more than seven centuries of Anglo-Irish struggle marked by fierce rebellions and harsh repressions. A failed 1916 Easter Monday Rebellion touched off several years of guerrilla warfare that in 1921 resulted in independence from the UK for 26 southern counties; six northern (Ulster) counties remained part of the United Kingdom. In 1948 Ireland withdrew from the British Commonwealth; it joined the European Community in 1973. Irish governments have sought the peaceful unification of Ireland and have cooperated with Britain against terrorist groups. A peace settlement for Northern Ireland, known as the Good Friday Agreement and approved in 1998, is being implemented with some difficulties.
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