Middle school vocab review

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• true or most basic meaning

• figurative

• gradual changes over time

• evolution

• being everywhere, all the time

• omnipresence

• something that prompts disagreements

• literal

• word used with an imaginative meaning

• controversial

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• rebuild

• curator

• guess about something

• speculation

• study of ancient fossils/geology/bones

• paleontology

• stands out, exceptional

• reconstruct

• manages a museum or zoo

• remarkable

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• fixed

• remedied

• to add on to

• perceived

• understood to be

• renditions

• respected

• supplemented

• different versions

• regarded

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• to be launched into something new

• catastrophic

• turning out differently than expected

• irony

• crafty, done in secret

• propel

• away from

• underhanded

• event that destroys everything

• astray

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• postgraduate degree

• hypothosized

• awkward situation due to conflict

• debacle

• made an educated guess

• flexion

• respectable and admirable

• exemplary

• bending a limb at the joint

• doctorate

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• well-known for negative reasons

• depiction

• person helping others through donations

• notorious

• show or describe artistically

• encountered

• hard working and intelligent

• industrious

• experienced

• philanthropist

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• person who wanted slavery to end

• encroaching

• person using their resources for others

• asset

• something that benefits a situation

• abolitionist

• to have an extra amount of something

• abounding

• intrude/slowly get close to something

• humanitarian

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• very physically limiting

• debilitating

• difficulty, hardship

• resevoir

• a long, painful process

• vendetta

• prolonged bitter conflict

• adversity

• area of land that stores something

• tedious

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• to dig into, experience

• impeded

• capable of doing something

• PTSD: post traumatic stress disorder

• interfered with

• heralded

• mental condition occurring after trauma

• delve

• recognized, pronounced

• competently

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• increases quickly or in large amounts

• traipsing

• committed to doing something

• exponentially

• to wander through an area

• obliged

• will not give in or weaken

• unrelenting

• well-known or attracting attention

• prominent