In this exercise, some words are presented which are spelled with only alphabetic signs. The signs may not be grouped as they would be in an actual text. For practice reading properly grouped signs, you can use Exercise 1B .
Remember that Hieratic is written right-to-left whereas
our alphabet (and your transliterations) are written left-to-right. So for
example if you have the hieratic word 
you would start reading from the right side, and put down
ias the transliteration of the first sign,
then t
for the next, and
nfor the last sign. So you would
have itn
as your transliteration, which is the spelling of Aten, the name of one of
the Egyptian gods. This animation may help to visualize the procedure: 
All the words in these exercises are actual ancient Egyptian words, spelled as the Egyptians usually spelled them. You won't be able to do the translation part of the exercises unless you know the words already or have a dictionary or vocabulary list of some kind available. You should be able to find most of the words in these exercises in Jim Loy's online dictionary .
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