Academic vocabulary: Group 21
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atmosphere - attach - compensation - correspond - decade - despite - distinct - domestic - exact - guarantee - hence - insight - interior - layer - preliminary - profession - rare - route - willing - worth
decade | 1. | It can take as much as a ........... or more of hard study in a foreign language to become as fluent as a native speaker of that language. |
preliminary | 2. | My ........... impression of him is that he is very intelligent and that his poor behaviour is because of boredom. |
insight | 3. | She had a flash of ........... that she was going to fail her exams unless she started working. |
domestic | 4. | Most children take a share of ........... duties such as washing the dishes. |
atmosphere | 5. | It is important for teachers to create a positive learning ........... in the classroom. |
interior | 6. | The ........... of the new science building is not finished yet, but from the outside it looks great! |
distinct | 7. | There is a ........... difference between learning your first language and learning a second one. |
compensation | 8. | The factory worker was awarded €30,000 ........... for losing his arm in an accident. |
rare | 9. | It is very ........... for a student to learn English so quickly. But she has! |
correspond | 10. | I don't understand it. His test scores do not ........... to what I know he knows |
hence | 11. | The student was caught plagiarizing for the third time. ........... , she was asked to leave the school. |
attach | 12. | Many people ........... pictures to the emails they send. |
exact | 13. | We have not yet been able to find out the ........... reason why he attacked the teacher. |
worth | 14. | It's not ........... asking him. He doesn't know enough about computers. |
route | 15. | My ........... to work every day takes me past my old school. |
profession | 16. | The teaching ........... is usually not attractive to those are still pupils themselves. This choice of career is normally made much later. |
willing | 17. | I am very ........... to help you after school if you have problems with your work. |
layer | 18. | There is a ........... of meaning in the story that you have not written about. |
guarantee | 19. | The teacher said that he could not ........... to grade all the papers by the next lesson. |
despite | 20. | She came to school yesterday ........... feeling very unwell. |
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