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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