Upper Elementary Vocab Review

Match the following words with their definitions

• containing nothing; empty

• void
• idea meant to explain something

• partial

• changed

• theory

• being everywhere all at once

• omnipresence

• not complete

• mutated

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• to dig up

• excavate

• study of ancient fossils/geology/bones

• paleontology

• the first of its kind

• groundbreaking

• sneaky or dishonest

• perceived

• understood to be

• devious

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• popular or easy to recognize

• iconic

• journeys with a purpose

• astray

• to go away from

• depicted

• a postgraduate degree

• expeditions

• represented in a way using words or pics

• doctorate

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• to show/describe something artistically

• omniscient

• all-knowing

• debacle

• acting quickly

• entrepreneur

• someone who starts and runs a business

• depiction

• an awkward situation due to a conflict

• haste

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• a person who wanted slavery to end

• equitable

• hard working and intelligent

• amiable

• writing detailing a person's life after

• obituary

• fair and balanced

• industrious

• friendly, easy to get along with

• abolitionist

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• an animal with two feet for walking

• vendetta

• an animal with four feet for walking

• meager

• a long-standing conflict between parties

• quadruped

• very little

• bidped

• recognition or praise for accomplishment

• acclaim

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• to become an expert

• specialize

• to dig into, experience

• former

• coming before

• keen

• very sharp, precise

• delve

• coming after

• latter

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• strongly held beliefs

• contagious

• to have your complete attention

• prominent

• good and worthy of respect

• enthralled

• easily passed on to others(like illness)

• honorable

• well-known or that attracts attention

• convictions

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• native to a specific area

• phenomenal

• an agreement among a group of people

• endemic

• discouraged/stopped from doing something

• turmoil

• difficulty and confusion

• deterred

• impressive, well done

• consensus

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• symbolic descriptive figure of speech

• exorbitant

• restarted after being stopped

• prevailing

• over the top, incredibly expensive

• metaphor

• current

• compensate

• to pay in exchange something

• reignited