Upper Elementary Vocab Review

Match the following words with their definitions

• changed

• partial

• containing nothing; empty

• omnipresence

• idea meant to explain something

• theory

• not complete

• void
• being everywhere all at once

• mutated

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• sneaky or dishonest

• paleontology

• the first of its kind

• excavate

• understood to be

• groundbreaking

• to dig up

• perceived

• study of ancient fossils/geology/bones

• devious

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• to go away from

• expeditions

• popular or easy to recognize

• depicted

• represented in a way using words or pics

• astray

• journeys with a purpose

• doctorate

• a postgraduate degree

• iconic

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• all-knowing

• omniscient

• to show/describe something artistically

• debacle

• someone who starts and runs a business

• haste

• acting quickly

• entrepreneur

• an awkward situation due to a conflict

• depiction

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• hard working and intelligent

• industrious

• a person who wanted slavery to end

• amiable

• writing detailing a person's life after

• abolitionist

• fair and balanced

• obituary

• friendly, easy to get along with

• equitable

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• recognition or praise for accomplishment

• meager

• very little

• vendetta

• an animal with four feet for walking

• quadruped

• an animal with two feet for walking

• acclaim

• a long-standing conflict between parties

• bidped

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• coming after

• keen

• to become an expert

• specialize

• coming before

• former

• to dig into, experience

• latter

• very sharp, precise

• delve

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• easily passed on to others(like illness)

• convictions

• well-known or that attracts attention

• prominent

• strongly held beliefs

• honorable

• good and worthy of respect

• contagious

• to have your complete attention

• enthralled

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• difficulty and confusion

• consensus

• discouraged/stopped from doing something

• endemic

• impressive, well done

• phenomenal

• native to a specific area

• deterred

• an agreement among a group of people

• turmoil

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• symbolic descriptive figure of speech

• exorbitant

• current

• reignited

• over the top, incredibly expensive

• prevailing

• to pay in exchange something

• metaphor

• restarted after being stopped

• compensate