Middle school vocab review

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• something that prompts disagreements

• literal

• word used with an imaginative meaning

• controversial

• being everywhere, all the time

• evolution

• gradual changes over time

• omnipresence

• true or most basic meaning

• figurative

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• rebuild

• remarkable

• manages a museum or zoo

• reconstruct

• guess about something

• curator

• study of ancient fossils/geology/bones

• paleontology

• stands out, exceptional

• speculation

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• different versions

• remedied

• respected

• perceived

• fixed

• regarded

• understood to be

• renditions

• to add on to

• supplemented

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• to be launched into something new

• propel

• event that destroys everything

• underhanded

• crafty, done in secret

• irony

• away from

• astray

• turning out differently than expected

• catastrophic

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• postgraduate degree

• doctorate

• made an educated guess

• hypothosized

• awkward situation due to conflict

• exemplary

• respectable and admirable

• debacle

• bending a limb at the joint

• flexion

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• well-known for negative reasons

• encountered

• experienced

• notorious

• show or describe artistically

• depiction

• person helping others through donations

• philanthropist

• hard working and intelligent

• industrious

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• intrude/slowly get close to something

• asset

• person who wanted slavery to end

• abounding

• something that benefits a situation

• humanitarian

• person using their resources for others

• abolitionist

• to have an extra amount of something

• encroaching

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• prolonged bitter conflict

• resevoir

• area of land that stores something

• vendetta

• difficulty, hardship

• debilitating

• very physically limiting

• tedious

• a long, painful process

• adversity

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• to dig into, experience

• delve

• mental condition occurring after trauma

• heralded

• interfered with

• impeded

• capable of doing something

• competently

• recognized, pronounced

• PTSD: post traumatic stress disorder

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• will not give in or weaken

• exponentially

• to wander through an area

• traipsing

• committed to doing something

• unrelenting

• increases quickly or in large amounts

• obliged

• well-known or attracting attention

• prominent