Middle school vocab review

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• being everywhere, all the time

• figurative

• true or most basic meaning

• omnipresence

• gradual changes over time

• controversial

• something that prompts disagreements

• evolution

• word used with an imaginative meaning

• literal

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• study of ancient fossils/geology/bones

• curator

• stands out, exceptional

• paleontology

• guess about something

• reconstruct

• rebuild

• speculation

• manages a museum or zoo

• remarkable

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• understood to be

• renditions

• fixed

• supplemented

• different versions

• remedied

• to add on to

• regarded

• respected

• perceived

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• away from

• underhanded

• crafty, done in secret

• irony

• to be launched into something new

• astray

• turning out differently than expected

• catastrophic

• event that destroys everything

• propel

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• bending a limb at the joint

• hypothosized

• made an educated guess

• doctorate

• postgraduate degree

• exemplary

• awkward situation due to conflict

• debacle

• respectable and admirable

• flexion

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• hard working and intelligent

• philanthropist

• person helping others through donations

• notorious

• well-known for negative reasons

• depiction

• experienced

• encountered

• show or describe artistically

• industrious

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• intrude/slowly get close to something

• encroaching

• person who wanted slavery to end

• abolitionist

• person using their resources for others

• humanitarian

• something that benefits a situation

• abounding

• to have an extra amount of something

• asset

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• very physically limiting

• tedious

• difficulty, hardship

• adversity

• area of land that stores something

• resevoir

• a long, painful process

• vendetta

• prolonged bitter conflict

• debilitating

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• mental condition occurring after trauma

• heralded

• recognized, pronounced

• delve

• to dig into, experience

• impeded

• interfered with

• PTSD: post traumatic stress disorder

• capable of doing something

• competently

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• to wander through an area

• prominent

• committed to doing something

• traipsing

• increases quickly or in large amounts

• exponentially

• will not give in or weaken

• unrelenting

• well-known or attracting attention

• obliged