Upper Elementary Vocab Review

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• being everywhere all at once

• theory

• containing nothing; empty

• void
• idea meant to explain something

• partial

• not complete

• mutated
• changed

• omnipresence

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• understood to be

• perceived

• to dig up

• devious

• sneaky or dishonest

• groundbreaking

• the first of its kind

• excavate

• study of ancient fossils/geology/bones

• paleontology

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• a postgraduate degree

• iconic

• journeys with a purpose

• expeditions

• to go away from

• doctorate

• represented in a way using words or pics

• astray

• popular or easy to recognize

• depicted

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• to show/describe something artistically

• depiction

• an awkward situation due to a conflict

• omniscient

• all-knowing

• entrepreneur

• someone who starts and runs a business

• debacle

• acting quickly

• haste

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• hard working and intelligent

• amiable

• writing detailing a person's life after

• equitable

• friendly, easy to get along with

• industrious

• a person who wanted slavery to end

• obituary

• fair and balanced

• abolitionist

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• recognition or praise for accomplishment

• meager

• very little

• acclaim

• an animal with four feet for walking

• vendetta

• an animal with two feet for walking

• quadruped

• a long-standing conflict between parties

• bidped

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• coming after

• keen

• very sharp, precise

• specialize

• to dig into, experience

• latter

• coming before

• former

• to become an expert

• delve

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• well-known or that attracts attention

• enthralled

• strongly held beliefs

• contagious

• good and worthy of respect

• prominent

• easily passed on to others(like illness)

• honorable

• to have your complete attention

• convictions

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• difficulty and confusion

• turmoil

• an agreement among a group of people

• phenomenal

• native to a specific area

• endemic

• discouraged/stopped from doing something

• deterred

• impressive, well done

• consensus

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• to pay in exchange something

• prevailing

• restarted after being stopped

• exorbitant

• symbolic descriptive figure of speech

• metaphor

• over the top, incredibly expensive

• reignited

• current

• compensate