The Day I Saved a Life Vocab

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Vivisection

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dissecting a living body for scientific research

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Keystone

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a group of organisms essential to an ecosystem

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Lobby

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to try to influence a politician on behalf of a cause

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Concede

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to surrender or give up

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Ecstatic

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feeling overwhelming joy or excitement

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Captivity (based on the text, Paragraph 5)

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The state of being confined or restricted from freedom.

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What context clue best helps the reader understand the meaning of extinction? Options: "It showed me the horrors they faced due to finning.", " It was a horrible discovery and one that moved me to act and speak up for the sharks. ", "They were being killed in huge quantities for their fins" , " The sharks are stripped of their fins then discarded"

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"They were being killed in huge quantities for their fins"