High school vocab review

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• a particular philosophy or view of life

• proponent

• an advocate or supporter of a particular idea or cause

• cataclysmic

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

• wolrdview

• not connected with religious or spiritual matters

• Intelligent Design

• disastrous or catastrophic

• secular

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• forming a theory without firm evidence

• speculation

• study of similarities and differences in body structures

• apologetics

• rebuild or recreate

• paleontology

• study of ancient life, fossils, geology

• reconstruct

• defense of the faith

• comparative anatomy

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• contrast

• remedied
• fixed

• religious dissenters
• those, in disagreement, leaving a church

• painstakingly
• requiring specific attention to detail

• endurance
• ability to put up with difficulty/strain

• dichotomy

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• spikes on a dinosaurs tail

• unbeknownst
• without anyone knowing

• thagomizers
• crafty, done in secret

• underhanded
• looked at very closely

• scrutinized
• an event that destroys everything

• catastrophic

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• bending a limb or joint

• exemplary

• very precise and exact

• discombobulated

• respectable and admirable

• mud-slinging

• throwing accusations at one another

• meticulous

• confused, out of order

• flexion

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• hardworking and intelligent

• prolific

• very productive

• humanitarian

• one who helps others, usually donations

• philanthropist

• surrounded by or completely consumed

• immersed

• one who uses their resources to help

• industrious

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• to intrude/slowly get close to

• implemented
• the have an extra amount of something

• encroaching

• the study of plant fossils

• abounding
• the study of spore and pollen fossils

• paleobotany
• put into practice

• palynology

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• to come together

• unassuming

• an area used to make sound travel

• resonance chamber

• very physically limiting

• debilitating

• modest, not bold

• converged

• study of human society

• anthropology

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• revenge or feud

• forensic science

• announced or publicized

• PTSD: post-traumatic stress disorder

• the application of scientific methods to solve crimes

• heralded

• goes beyond or surpasses

• transcends

• mental condition occurring after trauma

• vendetta

post-traumatic stress disorder

• to wander through an area

• language barriers

• increases quickly or in large amounts

• exponentially

• committed to doing something

• genera

• plural of genus, animal classification

• traipsing

• unable to communicate through words

• obliged