High school vocab review

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• a particular philosophy or view of life

• cataclysmic

• not connected with religious or spiritual matters

• Intelligent Design

• an advocate or supporter of a particular idea or cause

• proponent

• disastrous or catastrophic

• wolrdview

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

• secular

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• rebuild or recreate

• speculation

• defense of the faith

• comparative anatomy

• forming a theory without firm evidence

• reconstruct

• study of ancient life, fossils, geology

• apologetics

• study of similarities and differences in body structures

• paleontology

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• ability to put up with difficulty/strain

• dichotomy
• those, in disagreement, leaving a church

• endurance
• requiring specific attention to detail

• remedied
• contrast

• painstakingly
• fixed

• religious dissenters

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• without anyone knowing

• underhanded
• an event that destroys everything

• unbeknownst
• looked at very closely

• scrutinized
• crafty, done in secret

• catastrophic
• spikes on a dinosaurs tail

• thagomizers

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• throwing accusations at one another

• mud-slinging

• respectable and admirable

• meticulous

• bending a limb or joint

• flexion

• confused, out of order

• exemplary

• very precise and exact

• discombobulated

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• hardworking and intelligent

• prolific

• one who uses their resources to help

• humanitarian

• very productive

• immersed

• one who helps others, usually donations

• philanthropist

• surrounded by or completely consumed

• industrious

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• the study of plant fossils

• palynology
• the study of spore and pollen fossils

• implemented
• put into practice

• encroaching

• the have an extra amount of something

• abounding
• to intrude/slowly get close to

• paleobotany

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• to come together

• debilitating

• very physically limiting

• anthropology

• modest, not bold

• resonance chamber

• study of human society

• unassuming

• an area used to make sound travel

• converged

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• the application of scientific methods to solve crimes

• transcends

• goes beyond or surpasses

• vendetta

• mental condition occurring after trauma

• heralded

• announced or publicized

• PTSD: post-traumatic stress disorder

• revenge or feud

• forensic science

post-traumatic stress disorder

• to wander through an area

• language barriers

• unable to communicate through words

• obliged

• increases quickly or in large amounts

• genera

• committed to doing something

• exponentially

• plural of genus, animal classification

• traipsing