Middle school vocab review

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• being everywhere, all the time

• evolution

• word used with an imaginative meaning

• figurative

• gradual changes over time

• controversial

• something that prompts disagreements

• omnipresence

• true or most basic meaning

• literal

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• rebuild

• speculation

• stands out, exceptional

• curator

• study of ancient fossils/geology/bones

• remarkable

• manages a museum or zoo

• paleontology

• guess about something

• reconstruct

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• respected

• perceived

• different versions

• regarded

• understood to be

• supplemented

• fixed

• renditions

• to add on to

• remedied

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• crafty, done in secret

• catastrophic

• to be launched into something new

• underhanded

• away from

• irony

• event that destroys everything

• propel

• turning out differently than expected

• astray

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• respectable and admirable

• doctorate

• bending a limb at the joint

• exemplary

• postgraduate degree

• flexion

• awkward situation due to conflict

• debacle

• made an educated guess

• hypothosized

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• show or describe artistically

• notorious

• well-known for negative reasons

• depiction

• person helping others through donations

• philanthropist

• hard working and intelligent

• encountered

• experienced

• industrious

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• to have an extra amount of something

• abounding

• something that benefits a situation

• humanitarian

• person using their resources for others

• asset

• intrude/slowly get close to something

• encroaching

• person who wanted slavery to end

• abolitionist

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• prolonged bitter conflict

• adversity

• difficulty, hardship

• resevoir

• a long, painful process

• vendetta

• area of land that stores something

• tedious

• very physically limiting

• debilitating

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• mental condition occurring after trauma

• PTSD: post traumatic stress disorder

• capable of doing something

• impeded

• to dig into, experience

• heralded

• recognized, pronounced

• competently

• interfered with

• delve

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• well-known or attracting attention

• obliged

• will not give in or weaken

• traipsing

• increases quickly or in large amounts

• prominent

• to wander through an area

• exponentially

• committed to doing something

• unrelenting