Middle school vocab review

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• something that prompts disagreements

• omnipresence

• word used with an imaginative meaning

• figurative

• gradual changes over time

• evolution

• true or most basic meaning

• controversial

• being everywhere, all the time

• literal

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• rebuild

• paleontology

• guess about something

• reconstruct

• study of ancient fossils/geology/bones

• curator

• stands out, exceptional

• remarkable

• manages a museum or zoo

• speculation

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• to add on to

• perceived

• understood to be

• regarded

• respected

• renditions

• different versions

• supplemented

• fixed

• remedied

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• event that destroys everything

• catastrophic

• to be launched into something new

• irony

• turning out differently than expected

• propel

• crafty, done in secret

• underhanded

• away from

• astray

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• postgraduate degree

• doctorate

• awkward situation due to conflict

• hypothosized

• respectable and admirable

• exemplary

• made an educated guess

• flexion

• bending a limb at the joint

• debacle

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• show or describe artistically

• encountered

• well-known for negative reasons

• industrious

• experienced

• depiction

• hard working and intelligent

• notorious

• person helping others through donations

• philanthropist

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• something that benefits a situation

• abolitionist

• intrude/slowly get close to something

• asset

• to have an extra amount of something

• humanitarian

• person using their resources for others

• encroaching

• person who wanted slavery to end

• abounding

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• difficulty, hardship

• debilitating

• prolonged bitter conflict

• resevoir

• very physically limiting

• adversity

• area of land that stores something

• vendetta

• a long, painful process

• tedious

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• mental condition occurring after trauma

• impeded

• interfered with

• competently

• capable of doing something

• delve

• to dig into, experience

• heralded

• recognized, pronounced

• PTSD: post traumatic stress disorder

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• committed to doing something

• exponentially

• will not give in or weaken

• unrelenting

• well-known or attracting attention

• prominent

• to wander through an area

• obliged

• increases quickly or in large amounts

• traipsing