Middle school vocab review

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• gradual changes over time

• evolution

• true or most basic meaning

• controversial

• being everywhere, all the time

• omnipresence

• something that prompts disagreements

• figurative

• word used with an imaginative meaning

• literal

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• stands out, exceptional

• paleontology

• guess about something

• curator

• manages a museum or zoo

• remarkable

• study of ancient fossils/geology/bones

• speculation

• rebuild

• reconstruct

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• respected

• perceived

• understood to be

• remedied

• fixed

• supplemented

• different versions

• regarded

• to add on to

• renditions

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• turning out differently than expected

• irony

• to be launched into something new

• astray

• away from

• underhanded

• crafty, done in secret

• propel

• event that destroys everything

• catastrophic

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• postgraduate degree

• doctorate

• awkward situation due to conflict

• hypothosized

• respectable and admirable

• exemplary

• bending a limb at the joint

• debacle

• made an educated guess

• flexion

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• hard working and intelligent

• encountered

• well-known for negative reasons

• industrious

• person helping others through donations

• depiction

• experienced

• notorious

• show or describe artistically

• philanthropist

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• to have an extra amount of something

• humanitarian

• person who wanted slavery to end

• abolitionist

• intrude/slowly get close to something

• asset

• something that benefits a situation

• abounding

• person using their resources for others

• encroaching

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• area of land that stores something

• resevoir

• prolonged bitter conflict

• vendetta

• difficulty, hardship

• debilitating

• a long, painful process

• adversity

• very physically limiting

• tedious

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• interfered with

• competently

• mental condition occurring after trauma

• impeded

• capable of doing something

• delve

• to dig into, experience

• PTSD: post traumatic stress disorder

• recognized, pronounced

• heralded

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• will not give in or weaken

• obliged

• increases quickly or in large amounts

• exponentially

• committed to doing something

• traipsing

• to wander through an area

• unrelenting

• well-known or attracting attention

• prominent