Middle school vocab review

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• word used with an imaginative meaning

• controversial

• true or most basic meaning

• evolution

• something that prompts disagreements

• literal

• being everywhere, all the time

• omnipresence

• gradual changes over time

• figurative

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• stands out, exceptional

• curator

• rebuild

• remarkable

• guess about something

• reconstruct

• study of ancient fossils/geology/bones

• speculation

• manages a museum or zoo

• paleontology

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• respected

• perceived

• to add on to

• remedied

• different versions

• supplemented

• fixed

• regarded

• understood to be

• renditions

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• event that destroys everything

• catastrophic

• crafty, done in secret

• propel

• to be launched into something new

• irony

• turning out differently than expected

• underhanded

• away from

• astray

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• made an educated guess

• exemplary

• postgraduate degree

• hypothosized

• awkward situation due to conflict

• doctorate

• respectable and admirable

• debacle

• bending a limb at the joint

• flexion

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• experienced

• notorious

• hard working and intelligent

• industrious

• show or describe artistically

• depiction

• person helping others through donations

• philanthropist

• well-known for negative reasons

• encountered

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• to have an extra amount of something

• abolitionist

• intrude/slowly get close to something

• asset

• something that benefits a situation

• humanitarian

• person who wanted slavery to end

• encroaching

• person using their resources for others

• abounding

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• area of land that stores something

• tedious

• prolonged bitter conflict

• vendetta

• a long, painful process

• resevoir

• difficulty, hardship

• adversity

• very physically limiting

• debilitating

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• to dig into, experience

• PTSD: post traumatic stress disorder

• capable of doing something

• delve

• interfered with

• heralded

• mental condition occurring after trauma

• impeded

• recognized, pronounced

• competently

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• increases quickly or in large amounts

• traipsing

• well-known or attracting attention

• prominent

• to wander through an area

• exponentially

• committed to doing something

• obliged

• will not give in or weaken

• unrelenting