Academic vocabulary: Group 25

adapt - approve - assure - battle - bond - boundary - commit - derive - diagnosis - elect - expense - fairly - harm - ideal - import - invest - magnitude - neither - restrict - revenue
revenue1.Most of the school's ........... comes from the school fees paid by the companies who send their employees to work in Germany.
boundary2.The ........... to the school grounds is the stream. You must not cross it.
import3.Each year the school has to ........... many of its textbooks from the USA or England-
magnitude4.I don't think she realises the ........... of the task she has set herself.
fairly5.She has made ........... good progress this year, but I still think she could have done better if she had tried harder.
ideal6.The ........... solution to this problem would be for everyone to say sorry and then just forget the whole thing.
assure7.The head teacher could not ........... parents that there would be no increase in school fees.
derive8.Telephone and telegraph ........... from the Greek words meaning far speak and far write.
restrict9.After problems in the computer labs the school has decided to ........... entry to grade 12 students only.
battle10.I'm in a ........... with John's parents. They want me to give him more homework, but I know he won't do it.
commit11.Do not ........... the serious error of believing you can pass the course without doing the coursework.
invest12.The school is planning to ........... a lot of money in a new arts and technology block.
bond13.There is usually a close ........... between students of the same nationality at an international school.
approve14.Do you think that the school will ........... the suggestion to increase the number of holidays?
diagnosis15.It is too early to make an accurate ........... of her problems in learning English.
harm16.She will ........... her chances of graduating unless she starts to attend school more regularly.
adapt17.Some students find it difficult to ........... to a new school in a new country.
neither18. ........... of the history classes he teaches this year has made very good progress.
expense19.The school wanted to set up a new computer lab, but the ........... would have been too high.
elect20.I am hoping that the students will ........... a non-native speaker onto the school council.
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