Middle school vocab review

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• true or most basic meaning

• controversial

• something that prompts disagreements

• evolution

• gradual changes over time

• omnipresence

• word used with an imaginative meaning

• literal

• being everywhere, all the time

• figurative

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• study of ancient fossils/geology/bones

• speculation

• guess about something

• paleontology

• manages a museum or zoo

• curator

• rebuild

• reconstruct

• stands out, exceptional

• remarkable

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• different versions

• remedied

• fixed

• supplemented

• understood to be

• regarded

• respected

• renditions

• to add on to

• perceived

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• crafty, done in secret

• propel

• turning out differently than expected

• underhanded

• event that destroys everything

• irony

• away from

• catastrophic

• to be launched into something new

• astray

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• respectable and admirable

• hypothosized

• postgraduate degree

• exemplary

• bending a limb at the joint

• debacle

• awkward situation due to conflict

• doctorate

• made an educated guess

• flexion

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• well-known for negative reasons

• encountered

• hard working and intelligent

• notorious

• show or describe artistically

• industrious

• experienced

• philanthropist

• person helping others through donations

• depiction

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• intrude/slowly get close to something

• humanitarian

• person who wanted slavery to end

• abolitionist

• something that benefits a situation

• asset

• person using their resources for others

• abounding

• to have an extra amount of something

• encroaching

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• difficulty, hardship

• adversity

• a long, painful process

• debilitating

• prolonged bitter conflict

• resevoir

• very physically limiting

• tedious

• area of land that stores something

• vendetta

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• mental condition occurring after trauma

• PTSD: post traumatic stress disorder

• capable of doing something

• impeded

• recognized, pronounced

• competently

• interfered with

• delve

• to dig into, experience

• heralded

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• to wander through an area

• exponentially

• committed to doing something

• unrelenting

• will not give in or weaken

• traipsing

• increases quickly or in large amounts

• obliged

• well-known or attracting attention

• prominent