Upper Elementary Vocab Review

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• not complete

• mutated
• changed

• theory

• being everywhere all at once

• void
• containing nothing; empty

• omnipresence

• idea meant to explain something

• partial

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• the first of its kind

• devious

• understood to be

• excavate

• to dig up

• perceived

• study of ancient fossils/geology/bones

• groundbreaking

• sneaky or dishonest

• paleontology

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• popular or easy to recognize

• expeditions

• journeys with a purpose

• depicted

• represented in a way using words or pics

• astray

• a postgraduate degree

• doctorate

• to go away from

• iconic

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• all-knowing

• entrepreneur

• someone who starts and runs a business

• debacle

• acting quickly

• haste

• an awkward situation due to a conflict

• omniscient

• to show/describe something artistically

• depiction

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• fair and balanced

• amiable

• hard working and intelligent

• industrious

• a person who wanted slavery to end

• equitable

• friendly, easy to get along with

• obituary

• writing detailing a person's life after

• abolitionist

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• very little

• acclaim

• recognition or praise for accomplishment

• meager

• an animal with four feet for walking

• vendetta

• an animal with two feet for walking

• quadruped

• a long-standing conflict between parties

• bidped

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• very sharp, precise

• latter

• coming before

• delve

• to become an expert

• specialize

• to dig into, experience

• former

• coming after

• keen

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• to have your complete attention

• honorable

• easily passed on to others(like illness)

• convictions

• good and worthy of respect

• contagious

• strongly held beliefs

• enthralled

• well-known or that attracts attention

• prominent

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• impressive, well done

• deterred

• native to a specific area

• endemic

• difficulty and confusion

• phenomenal

• an agreement among a group of people

• turmoil

• discouraged/stopped from doing something

• consensus

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• over the top, incredibly expensive

• metaphor

• current

• exorbitant

• to pay in exchange something

• compensate

• symbolic descriptive figure of speech

• prevailing

• restarted after being stopped

• reignited