Upper Elementary Vocab Review

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• containing nothing; empty

• mutated
• being everywhere all at once

• omnipresence

• changed

• partial

• idea meant to explain something

• theory

• not complete

• void

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• study of ancient fossils/geology/bones

• excavate

• understood to be

• perceived

• sneaky or dishonest

• groundbreaking

• to dig up

• paleontology

• the first of its kind

• devious

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• popular or easy to recognize

• doctorate

• represented in a way using words or pics

• depicted

• a postgraduate degree

• expeditions

• journeys with a purpose

• iconic

• to go away from

• astray

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• all-knowing

• haste

• someone who starts and runs a business

• entrepreneur

• an awkward situation due to a conflict

• debacle

• acting quickly

• depiction

• to show/describe something artistically

• omniscient

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• fair and balanced

• abolitionist

• hard working and intelligent

• amiable

• a person who wanted slavery to end

• industrious

• friendly, easy to get along with

• obituary

• writing detailing a person's life after

• equitable

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• a long-standing conflict between parties

• vendetta

• very little

• bidped

• recognition or praise for accomplishment

• meager

• an animal with four feet for walking

• acclaim

• an animal with two feet for walking

• quadruped

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• coming after

• specialize

• very sharp, precise

• keen

• coming before

• former

• to dig into, experience

• delve

• to become an expert

• latter

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• easily passed on to others(like illness)

• prominent

• good and worthy of respect

• honorable

• well-known or that attracts attention

• convictions

• strongly held beliefs

• enthralled

• to have your complete attention

• contagious

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• native to a specific area

• turmoil

• an agreement among a group of people

• deterred

• difficulty and confusion

• endemic

• discouraged/stopped from doing something

• consensus

• impressive, well done

• phenomenal

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• to pay in exchange something

• exorbitant

• over the top, incredibly expensive

• reignited

• restarted after being stopped

• metaphor

• current

• compensate

• symbolic descriptive figure of speech

• prevailing