Academic vocabulary: Group 26
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admit - advise - apparent - automatic - considerable - crucial - emerge - flexible - identical - interval - journey - phenomenon - phrase - retreat - suitable - symbol - temporary - ultimate - uniform - vital
| flexible | 1. | The teacher is not at all ........... . Once she has set the date of a test, nothing will make her change it. |
| phrase | 2. | If you want to know whether an ........... is common or not, look it up in Google. |
| temporary | 3. | My stay in Germany will be ........... . I'm am returning to the UK next month. |
| advise | 4. | I ........... you to prepare more carefully for tests. |
| journey | 5. | I went on a long ........... last year. First I travelled to Japan, then I flew to Brazil. After that I sailed to California before coming home. |
| uniform | 6. | A ........... teaching methodology will not be successful in a class with many different nationalities and abilities. |
| ultimate | 7. | The ........... goal of teaching is to teach students how to teach themselves. |
| suitable | 8. | An orange pencil is not a ........... tool to do your homework with. |
| admit | 9. | After much debate the school has decided to ........... students with physical disabilities. |
| automatic | 10. | Many shops these days have ........... doors. They open as soon as you approach. |
| considerable | 11. | If you want to start a business you need a ........... amount of money. |
| vital | 12. | If you want too be successful in an English language school or university it is ........... that you learn academic words such as those on this website. |
| interval | 13. | There will be an ........... of 20 minutes in the middle of the school play. |
| identical | 14. | We faced an ........... problem over 10 years ago and couldn't solve it then, either. |
| emerge | 15. | It started to ........... after much questioning that the reasons for his bad behaviour were problems at home. |
| retreat | 16. | The school decided to ........... when the angry parent said that he would contact his lawyer. |
| symbol | 17. | The ........... of the Olympic Games is five overlapping rings. |
| apparent | 18. | It is ........... that you made no effort to learn the words for the test. |
| crucial | 19. | It is ........... that you hand in the essay on time. If you don't, you will fail the course. |
| phenomenon | 20. | A ........... of nature is the way a stick seems to break when it is looked at under water. |
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