Academic vocabulary: Group 25
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adapt - approve - assure - battle - bond - boundary - commit - derive - diagnosis - elect - expense - fairly - harm - ideal - import - invest - magnitude - neither - restrict - revenue
revenue | 1. | Most of the school's ........... comes from the school fees paid by the companies who send their employees to work in Germany. |
boundary | 2. | The ........... to the school grounds is the stream. You must not cross it. |
import | 3. | Each year the school has to ........... many of its textbooks from the USA or England- |
magnitude | 4. | I don't think she realises the ........... of the task she has set herself. |
fairly | 5. | She has made ........... good progress this year, but I still think she could have done better if she had tried harder. |
ideal | 6. | The ........... solution to this problem would be for everyone to say sorry and then just forget the whole thing. |
assure | 7. | The head teacher could not ........... parents that there would be no increase in school fees. |
derive | 8. | Telephone and telegraph ........... from the Greek words meaning far speak and far write. |
restrict | 9. | After problems in the computer labs the school has decided to ........... entry to grade 12 students only. |
battle | 10. | I'm in a ........... with John's parents. They want me to give him more homework, but I know he won't do it. |
commit | 11. | Do not ........... the serious error of believing you can pass the course without doing the coursework. |
invest | 12. | The school is planning to ........... a lot of money in a new arts and technology block. |
bond | 13. | There is usually a close ........... between students of the same nationality at an international school. |
approve | 14. | Do you think that the school will ........... the suggestion to increase the number of holidays? |
diagnosis | 15. | It is too early to make an accurate ........... of her problems in learning English. |
harm | 16. | She will ........... her chances of graduating unless she starts to attend school more regularly. |
adapt | 17. | Some students find it difficult to ........... to a new school in a new country. |
neither | 18. | ........... of the history classes he teaches this year has made very good progress. |
expense | 19. | The school wanted to set up a new computer lab, but the ........... would have been too high. |
elect | 20. | I am hoping that the students will ........... a non-native speaker onto the school council. |
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