Upper Elementary Vocab Review

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• idea meant to explain something

• partial

• being everywhere all at once

• void
• not complete

• mutated
• containing nothing; empty

• theory

• changed

• omnipresence

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• sneaky or dishonest

• paleontology

• understood to be

• excavate

• the first of its kind

• devious

• study of ancient fossils/geology/bones

• perceived

• to dig up

• groundbreaking

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• popular or easy to recognize

• depicted

• represented in a way using words or pics

• iconic

• to go away from

• astray

• journeys with a purpose

• expeditions

• a postgraduate degree

• doctorate

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• an awkward situation due to a conflict

• entrepreneur

• all-knowing

• omniscient

• to show/describe something artistically

• depiction

• someone who starts and runs a business

• debacle

• acting quickly

• haste

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• friendly, easy to get along with

• amiable

• hard working and intelligent

• obituary

• writing detailing a person's life after

• industrious

• fair and balanced

• equitable

• a person who wanted slavery to end

• abolitionist

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• an animal with two feet for walking

• acclaim

• an animal with four feet for walking

• vendetta

• recognition or praise for accomplishment

• meager

• a long-standing conflict between parties

• bidped

• very little

• quadruped

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• to become an expert

• delve

• very sharp, precise

• specialize

• coming before

• keen

• to dig into, experience

• former

• coming after

• latter

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• good and worthy of respect

• prominent

• well-known or that attracts attention

• contagious

• to have your complete attention

• convictions

• strongly held beliefs

• honorable

• easily passed on to others(like illness)

• enthralled

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• difficulty and confusion

• consensus

• an agreement among a group of people

• turmoil

• discouraged/stopped from doing something

• deterred

• impressive, well done

• phenomenal

• native to a specific area

• endemic

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• symbolic descriptive figure of speech

• metaphor

• over the top, incredibly expensive

• prevailing

• restarted after being stopped

• compensate

• to pay in exchange something

• exorbitant

• current

• reignited