Upper Elementary Vocab Review

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• not complete

• theory

• changed

• mutated
• being everywhere all at once

• partial

• containing nothing; empty

• void
• idea meant to explain something

• omnipresence

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• understood to be

• perceived

• the first of its kind

• paleontology

• to dig up

• groundbreaking

• sneaky or dishonest

• excavate

• study of ancient fossils/geology/bones

• devious

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• journeys with a purpose

• depicted

• represented in a way using words or pics

• expeditions

• to go away from

• doctorate

• popular or easy to recognize

• astray

• a postgraduate degree

• iconic

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• someone who starts and runs a business

• omniscient

• an awkward situation due to a conflict

• entrepreneur

• to show/describe something artistically

• debacle

• all-knowing

• haste

• acting quickly

• depiction

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• hard working and intelligent

• amiable

• a person who wanted slavery to end

• industrious

• friendly, easy to get along with

• obituary

• fair and balanced

• equitable

• writing detailing a person's life after

• abolitionist

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• a long-standing conflict between parties

• quadruped

• an animal with two feet for walking

• bidped

• recognition or praise for accomplishment

• acclaim

• an animal with four feet for walking

• vendetta

• very little

• meager

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• coming before

• specialize

• to become an expert

• delve

• to dig into, experience

• former

• very sharp, precise

• keen

• coming after

• latter

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• well-known or that attracts attention

• contagious

• to have your complete attention

• prominent

• easily passed on to others(like illness)

• convictions

• strongly held beliefs

• enthralled

• good and worthy of respect

• honorable

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• native to a specific area

• deterred

• an agreement among a group of people

• consensus

• impressive, well done

• turmoil

• difficulty and confusion

• endemic

• discouraged/stopped from doing something

• phenomenal

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• to pay in exchange something

• metaphor

• current

• compensate

• restarted after being stopped

• exorbitant

• over the top, incredibly expensive

• reignited

• symbolic descriptive figure of speech

• prevailing