High school vocab review

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• not connected with religious or spiritual matters

• cataclysmic

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

• proponent

• an advocate or supporter of a particular idea or cause

• Intelligent Design

• a particular philosophy or view of life

• secular

• disastrous or catastrophic

• wolrdview

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• study of ancient life, fossils, geology

• speculation

• forming a theory without firm evidence

• apologetics

• defense of the faith

• reconstruct

• rebuild or recreate

• paleontology

• study of similarities and differences in body structures

• comparative anatomy

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• contrast

• remedied
• those, in disagreement, leaving a church

• painstakingly
• ability to put up with difficulty/strain

• endurance
• requiring specific attention to detail

• dichotomy
• fixed

• religious dissenters

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• crafty, done in secret

• underhanded
• looked at very closely

• thagomizers
• without anyone knowing

• catastrophic
• an event that destroys everything

• unbeknownst
• spikes on a dinosaurs tail

• scrutinized

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• confused, out of order

• discombobulated

• respectable and admirable

• mud-slinging

• throwing accusations at one another

• meticulous

• bending a limb or joint

• exemplary

• very precise and exact

• flexion

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• one who uses their resources to help

• industrious

• one who helps others, usually donations

• humanitarian

• hardworking and intelligent

• immersed

• surrounded by or completely consumed

• prolific

• very productive

• philanthropist

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• the study of plant fossils

• implemented
• the have an extra amount of something

• abounding
• put into practice

• encroaching

• the study of spore and pollen fossils

• palynology
• to intrude/slowly get close to

• paleobotany

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• to come together

• anthropology

• study of human society

• converged

• very physically limiting

• debilitating

• an area used to make sound travel

• unassuming

• modest, not bold

• resonance chamber

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• the application of scientific methods to solve crimes

• vendetta

• goes beyond or surpasses

• PTSD: post-traumatic stress disorder

• revenge or feud

• forensic science

• mental condition occurring after trauma

• heralded

• announced or publicized

• transcends

post-traumatic stress disorder

• committed to doing something

• obliged

• increases quickly or in large amounts

• traipsing

• to wander through an area

• exponentially

• plural of genus, animal classification

• genera

• unable to communicate through words

• language barriers