Upper Elementary Vocab Review

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• not complete

• mutated
• being everywhere all at once

• partial

• idea meant to explain something

• theory

• containing nothing; empty

• omnipresence

• changed

• void

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• the first of its kind

• excavate

• study of ancient fossils/geology/bones

• groundbreaking

• to dig up

• devious

• understood to be

• perceived

• sneaky or dishonest

• paleontology

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• represented in a way using words or pics

• doctorate

• to go away from

• expeditions

• journeys with a purpose

• iconic

• a postgraduate degree

• depicted

• popular or easy to recognize

• astray

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• all-knowing

• debacle

• someone who starts and runs a business

• entrepreneur

• acting quickly

• depiction

• an awkward situation due to a conflict

• haste

• to show/describe something artistically

• omniscient

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• fair and balanced

• obituary

• writing detailing a person's life after

• abolitionist

• a person who wanted slavery to end

• equitable

• hard working and intelligent

• industrious

• friendly, easy to get along with

• amiable

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• very little

• acclaim

• recognition or praise for accomplishment

• quadruped

• an animal with two feet for walking

• bidped

• an animal with four feet for walking

• meager

• a long-standing conflict between parties

• vendetta

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• coming before

• delve

• very sharp, precise

• latter

• to become an expert

• keen

• coming after

• specialize

• to dig into, experience

• former

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• strongly held beliefs

• contagious

• good and worthy of respect

• honorable

• well-known or that attracts attention

• convictions

• to have your complete attention

• enthralled

• easily passed on to others(like illness)

• prominent

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• discouraged/stopped from doing something

• endemic

• native to a specific area

• deterred

• difficulty and confusion

• turmoil

• an agreement among a group of people

• phenomenal

• impressive, well done

• consensus

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• current

• reignited

• symbolic descriptive figure of speech

• compensate

• over the top, incredibly expensive

• prevailing

• restarted after being stopped

• exorbitant

• to pay in exchange something

• metaphor