Upper Elementary Vocab Review

Match the following words with their definitions

• being everywhere all at once

• omnipresence

• idea meant to explain something

• mutated
• changed

• theory

• containing nothing; empty

• partial

• not complete

• void

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• to dig up

• paleontology

• sneaky or dishonest

• perceived

• understood to be

• excavate

• the first of its kind

• devious

• study of ancient fossils/geology/bones

• groundbreaking

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• to go away from

• doctorate

• a postgraduate degree

• depicted

• popular or easy to recognize

• astray

• journeys with a purpose

• iconic

• represented in a way using words or pics

• expeditions

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• to show/describe something artistically

• entrepreneur

• an awkward situation due to a conflict

• omniscient

• acting quickly

• debacle

• someone who starts and runs a business

• haste

• all-knowing

• depiction

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• friendly, easy to get along with

• abolitionist

• a person who wanted slavery to end

• amiable

• hard working and intelligent

• industrious

• fair and balanced

• obituary

• writing detailing a person's life after

• equitable

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• very little

• quadruped

• a long-standing conflict between parties

• vendetta

• recognition or praise for accomplishment

• acclaim

• an animal with two feet for walking

• meager

• an animal with four feet for walking

• bidped

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• to dig into, experience

• keen

• coming before

• specialize

• very sharp, precise

• latter

• to become an expert

• delve

• coming after

• former

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• good and worthy of respect

• contagious

• well-known or that attracts attention

• prominent

• strongly held beliefs

• convictions

• easily passed on to others(like illness)

• enthralled

• to have your complete attention

• honorable

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• impressive, well done

• endemic

• native to a specific area

• deterred

• difficulty and confusion

• phenomenal

• discouraged/stopped from doing something

• consensus

• an agreement among a group of people

• turmoil

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• symbolic descriptive figure of speech

• compensate

• to pay in exchange something

• prevailing

• over the top, incredibly expensive

• reignited

• restarted after being stopped

• metaphor

• current

• exorbitant