Critical Vocabulary

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Fill in the blank: To have a ________ feeling is to have strong emotions. My art teacher is ________ about painting pictures of the ocean.

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passionate

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Fill in the blank: An ________ is the desire to do something. She was learning to control her ________ to talk to her classmates during class.

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impulse

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Fill in the blank: A ________ group is known and respected for its excellence. A ________ novelist is coming to talk to our class.

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distinguished

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Someone who is ________ is odd. My ________ aunt is known for wearing hats that are decorated with flowers.

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eccentric

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The way an event happened, or the causes of it, are its ________. Helen explained the ________ in her childhood that led her to the study of bees.

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circumstances

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If something happened ________, it happened for an obvious reason. Example: Evidently, after lights out, everyone slept.

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evidently

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Fill in the blank: ________ is the act of moving faster. Example: Upon acceleration, cars would move faster.

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acceleration

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A ________ is a rough model created to test something before creating it in its final form. Example: The prototype of the robot helped the scientists figure out what they still needed to work on.

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prototype

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A person who helps to make something has made a ________ to that work. Example: My contribution to the meal was a big green salad.

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contribution

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If you thought of the idea to create something, you ________ it. Example: The artist conceived of a wand-shaped sculpture.

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conceived