Middle school vocab review

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• true or most basic meaning

• evolution

• something that prompts disagreements

• literal

• being everywhere, all the time

• omnipresence

• gradual changes over time

• figurative

• word used with an imaginative meaning

• controversial

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• stands out, exceptional

• paleontology

• manages a museum or zoo

• remarkable

• guess about something

• reconstruct

• rebuild

• speculation

• study of ancient fossils/geology/bones

• curator

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• understood to be

• renditions

• to add on to

• regarded

• different versions

• supplemented

• respected

• perceived

• fixed

• remedied

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• crafty, done in secret

• irony

• turning out differently than expected

• underhanded

• to be launched into something new

• catastrophic

• event that destroys everything

• propel

• away from

• astray

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• postgraduate degree

• debacle

• awkward situation due to conflict

• doctorate

• bending a limb at the joint

• flexion

• made an educated guess

• hypothosized

• respectable and admirable

• exemplary

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• person helping others through donations

• philanthropist

• show or describe artistically

• notorious

• experienced

• industrious

• well-known for negative reasons

• depiction

• hard working and intelligent

• encountered

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• person using their resources for others

• humanitarian

• to have an extra amount of something

• abolitionist

• intrude/slowly get close to something

• encroaching

• person who wanted slavery to end

• abounding

• something that benefits a situation

• asset

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• a long, painful process

• tedious

• area of land that stores something

• adversity

• difficulty, hardship

• vendetta

• prolonged bitter conflict

• resevoir

• very physically limiting

• debilitating

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• interfered with

• PTSD: post traumatic stress disorder

• recognized, pronounced

• competently

• capable of doing something

• heralded

• mental condition occurring after trauma

• delve

• to dig into, experience

• impeded

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• committed to doing something

• unrelenting

• to wander through an area

• obliged

• increases quickly or in large amounts

• prominent

• well-known or attracting attention

• traipsing

• will not give in or weaken

• exponentially