Middle school vocab review

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• true or most basic meaning

• omnipresence

• word used with an imaginative meaning

• literal

• something that prompts disagreements

• evolution

• being everywhere, all the time

• controversial

• gradual changes over time

• figurative

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• manages a museum or zoo

• paleontology

• stands out, exceptional

• remarkable

• study of ancient fossils/geology/bones

• reconstruct

• rebuild

• curator

• guess about something

• speculation

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• different versions

• regarded

• to add on to

• perceived

• respected

• remedied

• fixed

• supplemented

• understood to be

• renditions

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• away from

• underhanded

• to be launched into something new

• propel

• event that destroys everything

• irony

• crafty, done in secret

• catastrophic

• turning out differently than expected

• astray

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• bending a limb at the joint

• hypothosized

• respectable and admirable

• debacle

• postgraduate degree

• flexion

• awkward situation due to conflict

• exemplary

• made an educated guess

• doctorate

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• show or describe artistically

• philanthropist

• well-known for negative reasons

• depiction

• experienced

• industrious

• hard working and intelligent

• notorious

• person helping others through donations

• encountered

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• something that benefits a situation

• humanitarian

• intrude/slowly get close to something

• abolitionist

• person who wanted slavery to end

• encroaching

• person using their resources for others

• asset

• to have an extra amount of something

• abounding

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• difficulty, hardship

• tedious

• prolonged bitter conflict

• vendetta

• area of land that stores something

• resevoir

• very physically limiting

• adversity

• a long, painful process

• debilitating

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• to dig into, experience

• PTSD: post traumatic stress disorder

• recognized, pronounced

• heralded

• mental condition occurring after trauma

• competently

• capable of doing something

• impeded

• interfered with

• delve

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• increases quickly or in large amounts

• unrelenting

• committed to doing something

• traipsing

• well-known or attracting attention

• obliged

• to wander through an area

• prominent

• will not give in or weaken

• exponentially