Middle school vocab review

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• something that prompts disagreements

• evolution

• being everywhere, all the time

• literal

• gradual changes over time

• figurative

• word used with an imaginative meaning

• controversial

• true or most basic meaning

• omnipresence

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• stands out, exceptional

• reconstruct

• study of ancient fossils/geology/bones

• remarkable

• manages a museum or zoo

• curator

• rebuild

• speculation

• guess about something

• paleontology

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• fixed

• perceived

• understood to be

• regarded

• to add on to

• remedied

• respected

• renditions

• different versions

• supplemented

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• away from

• catastrophic

• to be launched into something new

• propel

• crafty, done in secret

• underhanded

• event that destroys everything

• irony

• turning out differently than expected

• astray

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• postgraduate degree

• hypothosized

• bending a limb at the joint

• doctorate

• awkward situation due to conflict

• flexion

• made an educated guess

• debacle

• respectable and admirable

• exemplary

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• well-known for negative reasons

• encountered

• person helping others through donations

• depiction

• experienced

• philanthropist

• hard working and intelligent

• industrious

• show or describe artistically

• notorious

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• intrude/slowly get close to something

• humanitarian

• something that benefits a situation

• abolitionist

• to have an extra amount of something

• asset

• person using their resources for others

• encroaching

• person who wanted slavery to end

• abounding

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• area of land that stores something

• debilitating

• prolonged bitter conflict

• vendetta

• difficulty, hardship

• resevoir

• very physically limiting

• tedious

• a long, painful process

• adversity

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• interfered with

• PTSD: post traumatic stress disorder

• capable of doing something

• delve

• to dig into, experience

• heralded

• mental condition occurring after trauma

• competently

• recognized, pronounced

• impeded

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• committed to doing something

• unrelenting

• increases quickly or in large amounts

• prominent

• to wander through an area

• traipsing

• well-known or attracting attention

• exponentially

• will not give in or weaken

• obliged