High school vocab review

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• an advocate or supporter of a particular idea or cause

• secular

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

• proponent

• disastrous or catastrophic

• Intelligent Design

• a particular philosophy or view of life

• wolrdview

• not connected with religious or spiritual matters

• cataclysmic

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• study of ancient life, fossils, geology

• speculation

• defense of the faith

• apologetics

• study of similarities and differences in body structures

• paleontology

• rebuild or recreate

• reconstruct

• forming a theory without firm evidence

• comparative anatomy

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• ability to put up with difficulty/strain

• remedied
• fixed

• religious dissenters
• requiring specific attention to detail

• endurance
• those, in disagreement, leaving a church

• dichotomy
• contrast

• painstakingly

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• without anyone knowing

• thagomizers
• crafty, done in secret

• unbeknownst
• an event that destroys everything

• scrutinized
• spikes on a dinosaurs tail

• underhanded
• looked at very closely

• catastrophic

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• bending a limb or joint

• flexion

• respectable and admirable

• mud-slinging

• throwing accusations at one another

• meticulous

• confused, out of order

• exemplary

• very precise and exact

• discombobulated

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• very productive

• industrious

• one who helps others, usually donations

• humanitarian

• surrounded by or completely consumed

• philanthropist

• one who uses their resources to help

• prolific

• hardworking and intelligent

• immersed

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• the study of plant fossils

• paleobotany
• the study of spore and pollen fossils

• encroaching

• put into practice

• abounding
• to intrude/slowly get close to

• palynology
• the have an extra amount of something

• implemented

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• to come together

• resonance chamber

• modest, not bold

• anthropology

• an area used to make sound travel

• debilitating

• study of human society

• unassuming

• very physically limiting

• converged

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• announced or publicized

• transcends

• mental condition occurring after trauma

• heralded

• the application of scientific methods to solve crimes

• vendetta

• goes beyond or surpasses

• forensic science

• revenge or feud

• PTSD: post-traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder

• committed to doing something

• traipsing

• unable to communicate through words

• genera

• increases quickly or in large amounts

• exponentially

• plural of genus, animal classification

• obliged

• to wander through an area

• language barriers