High school vocab review

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• a particular philosophy or view of life

• proponent

• an advocate or supporter of a particular idea or cause

• cataclysmic

• disastrous or catastrophic

• secular

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

• Intelligent Design

• not connected with religious or spiritual matters

• wolrdview

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• rebuild or recreate

• reconstruct

• study of similarities and differences in body structures

• apologetics

• defense of the faith

• speculation

• study of ancient life, fossils, geology

• paleontology

• forming a theory without firm evidence

• comparative anatomy

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• those, in disagreement, leaving a church

• dichotomy
• ability to put up with difficulty/strain

• religious dissenters
• fixed

• painstakingly
• contrast

• endurance
• requiring specific attention to detail

• remedied

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• an event that destroys everything

• catastrophic
• crafty, done in secret

• unbeknownst
• looked at very closely

• underhanded
• spikes on a dinosaurs tail

• thagomizers
• without anyone knowing

• scrutinized

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• bending a limb or joint

• meticulous

• throwing accusations at one another

• exemplary

• very precise and exact

• discombobulated

• respectable and admirable

• flexion

• confused, out of order

• mud-slinging

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• hardworking and intelligent

• humanitarian

• one who helps others, usually donations

• industrious

• surrounded by or completely consumed

• philanthropist

• very productive

• immersed

• one who uses their resources to help

• prolific

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• put into practice

• encroaching

• the study of plant fossils

• palynology
• the have an extra amount of something

• paleobotany
• the study of spore and pollen fossils

• abounding
• to intrude/slowly get close to

• implemented

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• to come together

• converged

• very physically limiting

• resonance chamber

• modest, not bold

• debilitating

• an area used to make sound travel

• anthropology

• study of human society

• unassuming

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• revenge or feud

• vendetta

• goes beyond or surpasses

• forensic science

• the application of scientific methods to solve crimes

• heralded

• mental condition occurring after trauma

• PTSD: post-traumatic stress disorder

• announced or publicized

• transcends

post-traumatic stress disorder

• plural of genus, animal classification

• language barriers

• to wander through an area

• traipsing

• committed to doing something

• obliged

• increases quickly or in large amounts

• exponentially

• unable to communicate through words

• genera