Upper Elementary Vocab Review

Match the following words with their definitions

• changed

• partial

• containing nothing; empty

• theory

• being everywhere all at once

• omnipresence

• idea meant to explain something

• void
• not complete

• mutated

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• understood to be

• paleontology

• sneaky or dishonest

• excavate

• the first of its kind

• perceived

• to dig up

• devious

• study of ancient fossils/geology/bones

• groundbreaking

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• a postgraduate degree

• doctorate

• represented in a way using words or pics

• iconic

• journeys with a purpose

• depicted

• to go away from

• expeditions

• popular or easy to recognize

• astray

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• acting quickly

• entrepreneur

• to show/describe something artistically

• debacle

• an awkward situation due to a conflict

• omniscient

• someone who starts and runs a business

• depiction

• all-knowing

• haste

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• friendly, easy to get along with

• industrious

• writing detailing a person's life after

• amiable

• hard working and intelligent

• obituary

• a person who wanted slavery to end

• abolitionist

• fair and balanced

• equitable

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• an animal with two feet for walking

• meager

• very little

• bidped

• an animal with four feet for walking

• vendetta

• recognition or praise for accomplishment

• quadruped

• a long-standing conflict between parties

• acclaim

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• coming after

• delve

• to become an expert

• former

• very sharp, precise

• keen

• coming before

• latter

• to dig into, experience

• specialize

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• to have your complete attention

• convictions

• strongly held beliefs

• honorable

• easily passed on to others(like illness)

• prominent

• good and worthy of respect

• enthralled

• well-known or that attracts attention

• contagious

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• an agreement among a group of people

• phenomenal

• difficulty and confusion

• endemic

• discouraged/stopped from doing something

• turmoil

• impressive, well done

• consensus

• native to a specific area

• deterred

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• symbolic descriptive figure of speech

• prevailing

• restarted after being stopped

• exorbitant

• current

• metaphor

• over the top, incredibly expensive

• compensate

• to pay in exchange something

• reignited