High school vocab review

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• disastrous or catastrophic

• cataclysmic

• an advocate or supporter of a particular idea or cause

• wolrdview

• a particular philosophy or view of life

• proponent

• a theory that life and the universe were created by an intelligent being

• secular

• not connected with religious or spiritual matters

• Intelligent Design

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• forming a theory without firm evidence

• apologetics

• study of similarities and differences in body structures

• comparative anatomy

• defense of the faith

• reconstruct

• rebuild or recreate

• speculation

• study of ancient life, fossils, geology

• paleontology

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• fixed

• painstakingly
• contrast

• religious dissenters
• those, in disagreement, leaving a church

• remedied
• ability to put up with difficulty/strain

• endurance
• requiring specific attention to detail

• dichotomy

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• an event that destroys everything

• thagomizers
• looked at very closely

• unbeknownst
• crafty, done in secret

• underhanded
• spikes on a dinosaurs tail

• scrutinized
• without anyone knowing

• catastrophic

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• respectable and admirable

• discombobulated

• very precise and exact

• exemplary

• throwing accusations at one another

• mud-slinging

• confused, out of order

• flexion

• bending a limb or joint

• meticulous

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• one who helps others, usually donations

• prolific

• very productive

• immersed

• one who uses their resources to help

• industrious

• surrounded by or completely consumed

• philanthropist

• hardworking and intelligent

• humanitarian

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• to intrude/slowly get close to

• encroaching

• the have an extra amount of something

• abounding
• the study of spore and pollen fossils

• palynology
• put into practice

• paleobotany
• the study of plant fossils

• implemented

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• study of human society

• anthropology

• an area used to make sound travel

• unassuming

• to come together

• converged

• very physically limiting

• resonance chamber

• modest, not bold

• debilitating

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• mental condition occurring after trauma

• PTSD: post-traumatic stress disorder

• revenge or feud

• forensic science

• announced or publicized

• heralded

• goes beyond or surpasses

• transcends

• the application of scientific methods to solve crimes

• vendetta

post-traumatic stress disorder

• increases quickly or in large amounts

• language barriers

• committed to doing something

• traipsing

• plural of genus, animal classification

• genera

• unable to communicate through words

• exponentially

• to wander through an area

• obliged