High school vocab review

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• an advocate or supporter of a particular idea or cause

• proponent

• not connected with religious or spiritual matters

• Intelligent Design

• a particular philosophy or view of life

• secular

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

• wolrdview

• disastrous or catastrophic

• cataclysmic

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• defense of the faith

• comparative anatomy

• forming a theory without firm evidence

• apologetics

• rebuild or recreate

• speculation

• study of ancient life, fossils, geology

• paleontology

• study of similarities and differences in body structures

• reconstruct

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• contrast

• religious dissenters
• requiring specific attention to detail

• endurance
• ability to put up with difficulty/strain

• painstakingly
• fixed

• remedied
• those, in disagreement, leaving a church

• dichotomy

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• without anyone knowing

• underhanded
• an event that destroys everything

• scrutinized
• looked at very closely

• catastrophic
• spikes on a dinosaurs tail

• thagomizers
• crafty, done in secret

• unbeknownst

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• throwing accusations at one another

• discombobulated

• respectable and admirable

• exemplary

• bending a limb or joint

• flexion

• confused, out of order

• mud-slinging

• very precise and exact

• meticulous

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• hardworking and intelligent

• immersed

• one who helps others, usually donations

• industrious

• surrounded by or completely consumed

• humanitarian

• very productive

• philanthropist

• one who uses their resources to help

• prolific

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• the study of spore and pollen fossils

• encroaching

• the study of plant fossils

• palynology
• to intrude/slowly get close to

• abounding
• the have an extra amount of something

• paleobotany
• put into practice

• implemented

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• study of human society

• converged

• to come together

• unassuming

• very physically limiting

• anthropology

• modest, not bold

• resonance chamber

• an area used to make sound travel

• debilitating

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• announced or publicized

• vendetta

• mental condition occurring after trauma

• heralded

• goes beyond or surpasses

• transcends

• the application of scientific methods to solve crimes

• PTSD: post-traumatic stress disorder

• revenge or feud

• forensic science

post-traumatic stress disorder

• unable to communicate through words

• genera

• plural of genus, animal classification

• traipsing

• increases quickly or in large amounts

• language barriers

• committed to doing something

• obliged

• to wander through an area

• exponentially