High school vocab review

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• a theory that life and the universe were created by an intelligent being

• proponent

• disastrous or catastrophic

• Intelligent Design

• not connected with religious or spiritual matters

• secular

• a particular philosophy or view of life

• cataclysmic

• an advocate or supporter of a particular idea or cause

• wolrdview

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• study of ancient life, fossils, geology

• paleontology

• defense of the faith

• speculation

• rebuild or recreate

• apologetics

• study of similarities and differences in body structures

• comparative anatomy

• forming a theory without firm evidence

• reconstruct

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• requiring specific attention to detail

• endurance
• those, in disagreement, leaving a church

• religious dissenters
• ability to put up with difficulty/strain

• remedied
• fixed

• dichotomy
• contrast

• painstakingly

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• looked at very closely

• catastrophic
• spikes on a dinosaurs tail

• thagomizers
• crafty, done in secret

• scrutinized
• without anyone knowing

• underhanded
• an event that destroys everything

• unbeknownst

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• throwing accusations at one another

• meticulous

• confused, out of order

• exemplary

• bending a limb or joint

• mud-slinging

• very precise and exact

• discombobulated

• respectable and admirable

• flexion

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• very productive

• immersed

• hardworking and intelligent

• philanthropist

• one who helps others, usually donations

• humanitarian

• surrounded by or completely consumed

• prolific

• one who uses their resources to help

• industrious

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• to intrude/slowly get close to

• encroaching

• the study of plant fossils

• palynology
• the study of spore and pollen fossils

• implemented
• put into practice

• paleobotany
• the have an extra amount of something

• abounding

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• very physically limiting

• anthropology

• an area used to make sound travel

• unassuming

• study of human society

• converged

• modest, not bold

• resonance chamber

• to come together

• debilitating

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• revenge or feud

• transcends

• announced or publicized

• heralded

• goes beyond or surpasses

• PTSD: post-traumatic stress disorder

• mental condition occurring after trauma

• forensic science

• the application of scientific methods to solve crimes

• vendetta

post-traumatic stress disorder

• unable to communicate through words

• genera

• plural of genus, animal classification

• traipsing

• committed to doing something

• language barriers

• increases quickly or in large amounts

• obliged

• to wander through an area

• exponentially