High school vocab review

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• an advocate or supporter of a particular idea or cause

• Intelligent Design

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

• wolrdview

• not connected with religious or spiritual matters

• proponent

• disastrous or catastrophic

• secular

• a particular philosophy or view of life

• cataclysmic

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• study of similarities and differences in body structures

• reconstruct

• defense of the faith

• paleontology

• rebuild or recreate

• speculation

• forming a theory without firm evidence

• comparative anatomy

• study of ancient life, fossils, geology

• apologetics

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• contrast

• religious dissenters
• ability to put up with difficulty/strain

• painstakingly
• those, in disagreement, leaving a church

• dichotomy
• requiring specific attention to detail

• endurance
• fixed

• remedied

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• spikes on a dinosaurs tail

• catastrophic
• an event that destroys everything

• unbeknownst
• crafty, done in secret

• thagomizers
• looked at very closely

• underhanded
• without anyone knowing

• scrutinized

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• respectable and admirable

• discombobulated

• very precise and exact

• exemplary

• bending a limb or joint

• mud-slinging

• confused, out of order

• flexion

• throwing accusations at one another

• meticulous

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• hardworking and intelligent

• humanitarian

• very productive

• immersed

• one who uses their resources to help

• philanthropist

• surrounded by or completely consumed

• prolific

• one who helps others, usually donations

• industrious

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• the have an extra amount of something

• palynology
• to intrude/slowly get close to

• encroaching

• put into practice

• abounding
• the study of spore and pollen fossils

• paleobotany
• the study of plant fossils

• implemented

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• an area used to make sound travel

• unassuming

• to come together

• anthropology

• modest, not bold

• debilitating

• very physically limiting

• resonance chamber

• study of human society

• converged

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• announced or publicized

• transcends

• mental condition occurring after trauma

• PTSD: post-traumatic stress disorder

• revenge or feud

• heralded

• the application of scientific methods to solve crimes

• vendetta

• goes beyond or surpasses

• forensic science

post-traumatic stress disorder

• plural of genus, animal classification

• language barriers

• to wander through an area

• exponentially

• unable to communicate through words

• genera

• increases quickly or in large amounts

• obliged

• committed to doing something

• traipsing