High school vocab review

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• an advocate or supporter of a particular idea or cause

• cataclysmic

• disastrous or catastrophic

• wolrdview

• not connected with religious or spiritual matters

• secular

• a particular philosophy or view of life

• proponent

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

• Intelligent Design

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• forming a theory without firm evidence

• paleontology

• defense of the faith

• apologetics

• study of similarities and differences in body structures

• reconstruct

• rebuild or recreate

• comparative anatomy

• study of ancient life, fossils, geology

• speculation

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• ability to put up with difficulty/strain

• religious dissenters
• contrast

• painstakingly
• fixed

• remedied
• requiring specific attention to detail

• dichotomy
• those, in disagreement, leaving a church

• endurance

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• without anyone knowing

• catastrophic
• spikes on a dinosaurs tail

• unbeknownst
• crafty, done in secret

• scrutinized
• an event that destroys everything

• thagomizers
• looked at very closely

• underhanded

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• very precise and exact

• mud-slinging

• throwing accusations at one another

• flexion

• respectable and admirable

• meticulous

• bending a limb or joint

• discombobulated

• confused, out of order

• exemplary

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• hardworking and intelligent

• humanitarian

• very productive

• prolific

• surrounded by or completely consumed

• industrious

• one who helps others, usually donations

• philanthropist

• one who uses their resources to help

• immersed

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• to intrude/slowly get close to

• encroaching

• put into practice

• implemented
• the study of plant fossils

• paleobotany
• the study of spore and pollen fossils

• abounding
• the have an extra amount of something

• palynology

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• an area used to make sound travel

• resonance chamber

• to come together

• converged

• very physically limiting

• unassuming

• modest, not bold

• anthropology

• study of human society

• debilitating

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• revenge or feud

• vendetta

• the application of scientific methods to solve crimes

• forensic science

• mental condition occurring after trauma

• PTSD: post-traumatic stress disorder

• goes beyond or surpasses

• transcends

• announced or publicized

• heralded

post-traumatic stress disorder

• increases quickly or in large amounts

• genera

• unable to communicate through words

• obliged

• committed to doing something

• language barriers

• to wander through an area

• traipsing

• plural of genus, animal classification

• exponentially