Upper Elementary Vocab Review

Match the following words with their definitions

• changed

• partial

• being everywhere all at once

• omnipresence

• not complete

• theory

• idea meant to explain something

• void
• containing nothing; empty

• mutated

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• understood to be

• excavate

• to dig up

• devious

• study of ancient fossils/geology/bones

• groundbreaking

• sneaky or dishonest

• paleontology

• the first of its kind

• perceived

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• to go away from

• doctorate

• a postgraduate degree

• depicted

• popular or easy to recognize

• expeditions

• represented in a way using words or pics

• astray

• journeys with a purpose

• iconic

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• an awkward situation due to a conflict

• debacle

• acting quickly

• haste

• to show/describe something artistically

• omniscient

• all-knowing

• depiction

• someone who starts and runs a business

• entrepreneur

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• hard working and intelligent

• industrious

• friendly, easy to get along with

• amiable

• a person who wanted slavery to end

• abolitionist

• writing detailing a person's life after

• obituary

• fair and balanced

• equitable

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• a long-standing conflict between parties

• quadruped

• an animal with four feet for walking

• bidped

• very little

• meager

• an animal with two feet for walking

• vendetta

• recognition or praise for accomplishment

• acclaim

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• coming before

• former

• to become an expert

• latter

• very sharp, precise

• delve

• to dig into, experience

• specialize

• coming after

• keen

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• to have your complete attention

• prominent

• good and worthy of respect

• honorable

• easily passed on to others(like illness)

• contagious

• strongly held beliefs

• enthralled

• well-known or that attracts attention

• convictions

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• difficulty and confusion

• deterred

• discouraged/stopped from doing something

• endemic

• an agreement among a group of people

• turmoil

• native to a specific area

• phenomenal

• impressive, well done

• consensus

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• current

• prevailing

• over the top, incredibly expensive

• reignited

• symbolic descriptive figure of speech

• compensate

• restarted after being stopped

• exorbitant

• to pay in exchange something

• metaphor