Academic Word List

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• Analyze study examine detail order discover
• Approach nearer space time quality amount
• Area part place piece land country
• Assess judge decide amount quality importance
• Assume accept true question proof
• Authority moral legal ability control
• Bought available able to be
• Benefit helpful good effect intended
• Concept principle idea a or
• Consist  to made formed specific things
• Constitute considered be to or
• Context situation exists explain the
• Contract legal document states explains formalagreement people groups
• Create make invent something to
• Data information facts numbers collected examined considered decision-making
• Meaning define word explain describe exact limits
• Derive something to get from
• Distribute give people spread supply
• Economy system trade industry wealth country made
• Establish start company organization continue long time  to
• Estimate guess calculate cost size
• Evidence makes true exists something
• Export send goods country sale
• Factor fact situation influences result
• Finance management supply money the
• Formula standard accepted making or
• Function natural purpose duty person
• Identify recognize prove person thing
• Income money earned work received frominvestments
• Show point make clear indicate
• Individual single person thing compared group set belong
• Interpret decide intended meaning to
• Activity involve situation involves thing part
• Issue subject problem people thinking talking
• Labor practical work involves hard physicaleffort
• Legal connected law with the
• Legislate government makes law a
• Major important bigger type more
• Method a particular way of
• Occur accidents unexpected events happen
• Percent shown symbol for or
• Period length time a of
• Policy set ideas plan situations agreed officially group
• Principle basic idea rule explains controls works
• Proceed continue planned to as
• Process series actions order achieve result
• Require make something to need
• Research  a detailed study subject order discover(new information
• Respond reaction to or something
• Role position purpose situation organization society relationship
• Section parts divided one of
• Sector areas economic activity country divided
• Significant important noticeable or
• Similar looking or being almost
• Source place starts the something
• Specific relating thing to one
• System arranged structure parts object organized
• Theory formal statement rules subject study based ideas
• Vary things type if different
• Live work environment air water land people animals
• Achieve succeed finishing reaching aim lot work effort
• Acquire to get something
• Administer control operation arrangement to
• Affect influence change or to
• Aspect part situation problem subject
• Assist to help
• Things category system dividing appearance quality type group
• Chapter separate parts book piece text divided number
• Formally special piece commission choose work
• Previous happening existing or before
• People community living area considered unit common interests
• Complex involving lot related parts
• Compute calculate answer amount machine
• Conclude  to end speech meeting piece writing
• Conduct  to organize perform activity
• Consequent happening result as of
• Construct  to build put parts form
• Consume fuel energy time large amounts
• Credit praise approval honour or
• Life general customs beliefs group people time culture
• Design make draw plans exampleclothes buildings
• Distinct noticeable exists clearly that
• Element part a of something
• Thing equate equal to consider
• Evaluate  to judge calculate quality importance amount
• Feature  a typical quality important part
• Final last
• Focus main central point attention interest
• Impact force action object hitting  a powerful effect
• Injure  to hurt physical harm person animal
• Institute organization people type scientific educational social work
• Invest put money effort time make profit advantage
• Item part list group things
• Journal magazine newspaper published regularlyabout subject written record
• Maintain continue existence to have
• Normal ordinary usual expected or
• Obtain buying working producing it
• Participate part involved activity in
• Perceive opinion belief to about
• Hope positive full confidence giving
• Potential conditions exist possible when
• Primary important main more than
• Purchase buy to something
• Range set similar things a
• Region area part world largeofficial country divided
• Regulate  to control making work
• Relevant connected happening discussed with
• Reside live home stay place
• Resource valuable possession quality country organization person
• Restrict limit movements actions limitsomething reduce size prevent
• Secure positioned fixed firmly correctly move fall break
• Seek  to find physical object
• Choose select small number things making careful decisions
• Site place built happened happening happen
• Situations strategy  a detailed plan achieving success war
• Survey examination opinions behaviour made people questions
• Text written words book magazine pictures
• Tradition belief principle acting people particularsociety group continued
• Transfer move place vehicle person group
• Alternative plan method one you
• Circumstance  a fact event makes situation
• Comment  something write expresses opinion
• Compensate pay money exchange lost damaged problem
• Component part combines form bigger
• Consent permission agreement or
• Considerable  large noticeable importance or
• Constant happening lot time a
• Constrain control limit to and
• Contribute give money order provide achieve people
• Convene bring group people meeting meet
• Coordinate  to make things workeffectively
• Core  the basic important part
• Corporate shared group single member
• Correspond match similar equal or
• Criteria standard judge decide deal
• Deduce reach answer decision thinking carefully facts
• Make demonstrate show clear to
• Document paper set written printed information official type
• Dominate control place person to
• Emphasis importance attention the particular
• Ensure  to make happen something
• Exclude prevent entering place taking part activity
• Framework supporting structure built  a system rules ideas
• Money fund amount saved collected provided purpose provide
• Illustrate draw pictures book magazine show meaning truth
• Immigrate live country to come
• Imply communicate idea feeling directly
• Initial beginning of or at
• Instance situation event fact generally
• Interact communicate react to with
• Justify  to give good reason
• Layer level material type rock gas thin sheetof
• Link connection people things ideas
• Locate place find discover exact position
• Maximize  to make great amount size importance
• Minor importance influence effect compared things type
• Negate  to effect cause something
• Outcome result effect action situation
• Partner  a person organization closely involved
• Philosophy reason understanding things nature real world existence
• Physical relating body to the
• Proportion number amount group part compared
• Book magazine publish make information people newspaper produce
• React  to act direct result
• Principal order importance first in
• Register put information official list record
• Rely depend trust or to
• Remove something or to take
• Scheme organized plan dishonest illegal bring good result
• Sequence series related things events order follow
• Sex state male female  physical activity people involving
• Shift move change position direction slightly
• Explain describe specify to or
• Sufficient  enough purpose for a
• Task piece work regularly unwillingly difficulty
• Methods technical  relating knowledge machines science industry relating
• Technique activity skill a way
• Technology study knowledge practical, especially industrial scientific discoveries
• Valid based truth reason accepted
• Importance worth  how important or
• Access  the method possibility place person
• Adequate satisfactory purpose enough or
• Annual happening year once every
• Apparent understood exist true to
• Approximate completely accurate close not
• Attitude  a feeling opinion behaving caused
• Attribute quality characteristic or a
• Relating people civil military religious ordinary country private
• System letters code words signs representa message secret
• Commit illegal considered wrong something
• Communicate share information speaking writing moving body signals
• Concentrate direct attention efforts activity subject problem
• Confer exchange ideas subject order reach decision action
• Things contrast obvious difference  to compare people order
• Predict event action happen future result knowledge experience
• Cycle group events happen order repeated series movements
• Debate discussion subject people part
• Error mistake a
• Ethnic relating race people to
• Goal aim purpose an or
• Grant amount money government person organization special purpose
• Reason explanation hence that is
• Taking notice influenced prevented despite
•  a dimension measurement particulardirection height length width part
• Domestic relating person's country to
• Emerge coming end difficult period experience
• Hypothesis idea explanation based knownfacts proved
• Implement start plan system to
• Implicate show involved crime partly responsible bad happened
• Force impose officially rule tax punishment obeyed received
• Integrate mix join society group people changing suit
• Internal existing happening inside person object organization place
• Investigate examine crime problem statement carefully discover truth
• Job regular work person earn money
• Label  a piece paper material information object attached
• Part mechanism machine set work planned system
• Obvious easy recognize understand to
• Occupy fill exist place period time
• Option thing chosen set possibilities freedom make choice
• Output amount produced person machine factory country
•  in general including people things group situation
• Parallel lines streets distancebetween length describe event situation
• Parameter  a set facts fixed limit establishes happen
• Phase stage series events process development
• Prior existing happening time or
• Professional relating work special training education qualities connect
• Project piece planned work activity finished period time
• Promote  to encourage people buy support
• Government regime  a system method
• Resolve  to solve end problem difficulty
• Retain continue to keep or
• Series number similar related events things
• Statistics information based study number times present numerical
• Status accepted official position social group amount respect
• Stress great worry caused difficult situation condition
• Subsequent happening after something else
• Amount sum money number numbersor added
• Summary short clear description main facts ideasabout
• Undertake  to begin long time difficult
• Academy organization intended protect develop art science language
• Adjust  to change slightly make correct effective suitable
• Change alter  to slightly characteristics
• Amend  to change words text law legal document
• Aware knowing exists knowledge experience thing
• Capacity total amount contained produced person organization ability
• Challenge situation faced great mental physical effort order
• Clause  a group words consisting subject finite form
• Compound consisting parts something of
• Conflict  an active disagreement people opposingopinions principles
• Consult information advice person book special knowledge subject
• Contact communication speaking writing regularly
• Decline  to gradually worse lower refuse
• Discrete clear independent shape form
• Pursue follow catch to or
• Draft piece text formal suggestion drawing itsoriginal state
• Make enable to someone able
• Power energy electricity oil work providing light heat
• Make enforce people obey law situationhappen accepted
• Entity exists things independent existence
• Equivalent  having amount purpose qualities
• Develop evolve  to gradually or
• Increase expand size number importance make
• Expose remove covering to what
• External coming of on for
• Facilitate make easier to something
• Fundamental forming base develops important
• Generate exist to cause something
• Generation people age society family
• Image  a picture mind idea
• Liberal  respecting allowing types beliefs behaviour
• License permission freedom or to
• Logic thinking reasonableand based good judgment
• Margin amount thing the by
• Medical related treatment illness injuries
• Mental  relating mind involving process thinking
• Modify change plan opinion law behaviour slightly improve
• Monitor  to watch check situation carefully period time
• Parts network  a large system consisting similar connected
• Notion belief idea a or
• Objective plan achieve based real facts influenced personal
• Orient discover position relation surroundings
• Perspective a particular way of
• Precise exact accurate and
• Prime main important quality or
• Psychology  the scientific study human mind works influences
• Ratio relationship groups amounts expresses bigger
• Reject  to refuse accept or
• Revenue income government company receives regularly
• Stable firmly fixed move change person mentally healthy
• Style  a typical person group place period
• Substitute thing person or to
• Sustain continue period time suffer experience damage loss
• Symbol sign shape object represent
• Object target  an shot shooting practice circle pattern
• Transit  the movement goods people place
• Trend  a general development change situation people behaving
• Version form slightly thing of
• Welfare state organization people money
• Compared fact whereas with the
• Adjacent touching very near next
• Albeit although
• Single assemble place bring parts group
• Collapse  to fall suddenly pressure strength support
• Colleague group people work of
• Compile collect information places arrange book report list
• Conceive imagine to something
• Convince persuade make someone to
• Depress  to feel unhappy hope
• Encounter meeting chance a especially
• Enormous extremely large
• Forthcoming happening soon
• Incline make feel slope angle
• Standards integrity quality honest strong moral principles refuse
• Intrinsic  being extremely important basic characteristic person thing
• Order invoke law achieve mentionsomething explain support opinion
• Levy amount money tax pay government organization
• Likewise in the same way
• Nonetheless despite what has just
• Notwithstanding fact thing mentioned despite
• Odd  strange unexpected or
• Ongoing continuing exist develop happening present moment
• Panel  a small group people chosen give advice
• Persist  if unpleasant feeling situation continues exist determined
• Pose  to problem difficulty cause
• Reluctance unwillingness an to do
• So-called show word describesomeone suitable correct
• Straightforward easy understand simple to
• Undergo  to experience unpleasant involves change
• Method whereby by which way
• Abstract existing idea feeling quality material object
• Accurate correct exact mistakes and
• Acknowledge accept admit recognize truth existence
• Aggregate formed adding amounts things
• Allocate  to give share total amount
• Assign give job piece work
• Attach fasten join connect to
• Author writer book article play person begins creates
• Bond close connection joining people
• Lasting short time words brief
• Capable things effectively skilfully achieve results
• Cite mention proof theory reason happened
• Cooperate act work purpose helpful asks
• Discriminate treat person group differently worse treatother skin
• Display arrange collection things public
• Diverse including types people things
• Area domain interest person control
• Edit make text film deciding removed order prepare
• Enhance improve quality amount strength
• Estate large area land country owned family organization
• Exceed greater number amount past allowed limit
• Expert person high level knowledge skill relating subject
• Explicit clear exact  showing talking sex violence detailed
• Federal  relating central government region countries
• Fee amount money paid piece work service
• Flexible change changed easily situation
• Addition importantly furthermore in more
• Gender  the physical and/or social condition male female
• Ignorant physical and/or social condition male female
• Incentive encourages person something that
• Incidence event rate an or
• Incorporate include part larger something
• Index alphabetical list printed back book showing page
• Inhibit slow process growth to
• Initiate  to begin cause something
• Input energy money information put system organization machine
• Instruct order formal to or
• Intelligent showing intelligence learn understand things easily
• Interval space points period events times
• Lecture  a formal talk subject group people students
• Migrate move place to from
• Minimum  the smallest amount number allowed
• Ministry britain countries department government led minister job
• Motive reason a for doing
• Neutral encourage helpany groups involved argument war features
•  despite referred nevertheless what has
• Overseas countries in from or
• Precede  to time space or
• Presume true to believe something
• Rational based clear thought reason
• Place rover person spends time travelling
• Reveal make show surprising previously secret hidden
• Scope range subject covered book programme discussion class
• Subsidy money part cost encourage happen
• Long narrow strip sounds tape material sticky side
• Find trace lost  to origin
• Transform change completely appearance character thing person improved
• Transport  the movement people goods place
• Underlie hidden strong influence to
• Utilize effective to use something
• Adapt  to change suit conditions
• Adult  person animal grown full size strength
• Advocate publicly support suggest idea development
• Aid  help support or
• Channel direct place situation to
• Chemical basic substance produced reaction involving atoms molecules
• Classic high quality standard things judged
• Comprehensive complete including and everything
• Parts comprise members or to
• Confirm make arrangement meeting phone writing  to prove
• Eliminate remove or to take
• Contrary  to prove belief opinion previously completely true
• Convert change formor character to
• Couple  two things similar people connected
• Period decade ten years a
• Definite fixed clear certain or
• Deny true to say that
• Differentiate show find difference things compared
• Dispose make feel someone to
• Dynamic lot ideas enthusiasm having
• Empirical based experienced theory on
• Equip provide person place objects purpose  give skills
• Extract remove to or take
• File store information careful to
• Finite limit end having a
• Foundation occasion organization state established structures surface ground
• Globe  a map world made shape ball attached
• Quality size importance grade level separate people things
• Promise guarantee happen written company repair change product
• Hierarchy system people things arranged importance
• Identical similar exactly the same
• Ideology set beliefs principles political system party organization
• Infer  to form opinion guess true information
• Innovate  to form opinion guess true information
• Insert put inside something to
• Intervene intentionally involved difficult situation order improve prevent
• Isolate separate things connected mixed
• Media internet newspapers magazines television considered group
• Mode operating living behaving a
• Paradigm model clear typical a
• Phenomenon exists felt tasted unusual interesting
• Priority important dealt things something
• Prohibit officially refuse prevent activity making impossible
• Publication act making information stories people printed electronic
• Quote  to repeat words written
• Release give freedom free movement
• Reverse change direction order position result opposite
• Real simulate make to do
• Sole single being one only
• Degree somewhat to some
• Submit give offer decision made
• Successor person thing or someone
• Survive  to continue live exist coming close dying
• Thesis main idea opinion theory person group piece
• Topic subject discussed written studied
• Transmit  to broadcast send carrysignals radio television pass
• Ultimate extreme important original final worst
• Unique existing type generally unusual special
• Visible  able to be seen
• Voluntary made willingly forced paid
• Abandon leave place thing person
• Accompany  to provided exist time
• Accumulate collect large number things long period time
• Ambiguous expressing meaning intentionally having
• Append add end piece writing
• Recognize good understand situation realize important
• Based arbitrary chance planned reason
• Work automate make process factory office operate machinesor
• Bias action supporting opposing person thing unfair allowing
• Chart drawing shows information simple lines curves amounts
• Clarify make clear easier understand giving details simpler
• Commodity substance product traded bought sold
• Complement make attractive combining to
• Conform behave usual standards behaviour expected group society
• Contemporary existing happening or now
• Fact contradict  (of people opposite statement wrong
• Crucial extremely important or necessary
• Currency money country time a
• Denote represent to something
• Detect notice partly hidden clear discover special method
• Deviate  to usual common behaving
• Displace force usual original position
• Drama play theatre television radio acting generally
• Eventual happening existing time end lot effort problems
• Exhibit show publicly to something
• Exploit helps to use something
• Fluctuate change continuously level thing
• Guideline  information intended advise people
• Highlight attract attention emphasize important
• Implicit  suggested communicated directly but
• Induce persuade to someone do
• Inevitable happen unable avoided prevented
• Infrastructure basic systems services transport powersupplies country organization
• Inspect carefully order discover information quality condition
• Intense extreme forceful feeling strong
• Manipulate control advantage unfairly dishonestly
• Minimize reduce level amount to
• Nucleus nuclear power produced atom divided joined
• Offset balance influence opposing great difference result
• Paragraph short part text consisting sentence beginning line
• Added plus to
• Practitioner involved skilled job activity
• Predominant noticeable important larger number
• Prospect possibility good happen future
• Radical believing expressing belief greator extreme social political
• Random happening chosen chance accordingto plan
• Reinforce make stronger to something
• Restore  to return earlier good conditionor position
• Revise idea piece writing order correct improve
• Schedule list planned activities things showing times dates
• Tense nervous worried unable relax forms verb show
• Terminate end stop to cause
• Theme main subject talk book film
•  as result action thereby a
• Uniform set clothes worn members organization group people
• Vehicle machine wheels engine transporting people goods land
• Place stopping via going through
• Virtual thing quality almost a
• Visual  relating to seeing
• Widespread existing happening places and/or people
• Accommodate  to provide place live stored
• Analogy comparison things similar features explain principle idea
• Anticipate  to imagine expect happen
• Assure  to imagine expect happen
• Attain  to reach succeed or
• Behalf representing
• Bulk large something or someone
• Cease  to stop something
• Coherent  if argument set ideas plan clearand carefully
• Coincide happen time to at
• Commence begin to something
• Compatible  able exist live work successfully
• Concurrent  happening existing time or
• Confine  to limit activity person problem
• Controversy  a lot disagreement argument affects important people
• Converse  the opposite
• Device object machine invented purpose
• Devote give time effort love person
• Diminish reduce reduced size importance
• Distort  to change usual original natural intended meaning
• Duration  the length time lasts
• Erode rub rubbed gradually to
• System ethic accepted beliefs contro ls behaviour based
• Format pattern plan arrangement a
• Found bring existence to something
• Inherent existing natural basic part
• Insight  (the ability clear deep suddenunderstanding complicated problem
• Integral important part a necessary
• Intermediate related things levels points
• Manual hands done with the
• Mature completely grown physically
• Mediate talk separate people groups involved disagreement agree
• Medium middle upper lower amount size degree
• Military relating belonging armed forces
• Minimal  very small amount in
• Mutual people groups feeling emotion thing
• Norm accepted standard behaving  things people agree
• Cover overlap partly edge part space
• Passive acting influence change situation allowing people control
• Portion part share larger a
• Preliminary coming important action event especiallyintroducing preparing
• Sphere  an object shaped round ball subject area
• Protocol system rules acceptable behaviour official ceremonies occasions
• Subordinate lower important position having
• Qualitative relating good bad to
• Supplement added order improve complete extra
• Refine make pure improve removing unwanted material
• Suspend stop active temporarily permanently hang
• Relax active calm happy part body becomeless stiff
• Team number people animals group
• Restrain control actions behaviour force order stop limit
• Temporary lasting needed long not
• Change revolution country governed political system violence war
• Gun trigger event situation causessomething bad start part
• Rigid stiff fixed bent moved  not changed persuaded
• Unify bring combine to together
• Route direction places method achieving
• Violate break act law agreement principle treated respect
• Scenario description actions events future
• Vision idea mental image ability

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