Upper Elementary Vocab Review

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• containing nothing; empty

• theory

• idea meant to explain something

• void
• not complete

• omnipresence

• changed

• partial

• being everywhere all at once

• mutated

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• understood to be

• paleontology

• study of ancient fossils/geology/bones

• excavate

• to dig up

• devious

• sneaky or dishonest

• perceived

• the first of its kind

• groundbreaking

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• to go away from

• expeditions

• a postgraduate degree

• iconic

• represented in a way using words or pics

• astray

• journeys with a purpose

• depicted

• popular or easy to recognize

• doctorate

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• someone who starts and runs a business

• entrepreneur

• an awkward situation due to a conflict

• haste

• to show/describe something artistically

• depiction

• acting quickly

• debacle

• all-knowing

• omniscient

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• a person who wanted slavery to end

• obituary

• friendly, easy to get along with

• industrious

• hard working and intelligent

• equitable

• writing detailing a person's life after

• amiable

• fair and balanced

• abolitionist

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• recognition or praise for accomplishment

• quadruped

• a long-standing conflict between parties

• meager

• very little

• bidped

• an animal with four feet for walking

• vendetta

• an animal with two feet for walking

• acclaim

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• to become an expert

• latter

• to dig into, experience

• specialize

• coming before

• delve

• very sharp, precise

• former

• coming after

• keen

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• strongly held beliefs

• prominent

• to have your complete attention

• convictions

• good and worthy of respect

• honorable

• easily passed on to others(like illness)

• contagious

• well-known or that attracts attention

• enthralled

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• impressive, well done

• turmoil

• an agreement among a group of people

• deterred

• discouraged/stopped from doing something

• endemic

• difficulty and confusion

• consensus

• native to a specific area

• phenomenal

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• restarted after being stopped

• prevailing

• symbolic descriptive figure of speech

• metaphor

• over the top, incredibly expensive

• exorbitant

• to pay in exchange something

• reignited

• current

• compensate