Academic vocabulary: Group 28
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anticipate - collapse - contrary - defend - destroy - diagram - explicit - frequent - impose - incident - logical - merely - overlap - passage - pure - restore - reward - strain - strive - thereby
| restore | 1. | Could you please ........... this book to its proper place on the shelf. |
| collapse | 2. | Many buildings ........... during earthquakes and kill the people inside. |
| frequent | 3. | Her mother is a ........... visitor to the school. In fact she comes two or three times a week! |
| defend | 4. | The headmaster was unable to ........... his proposal to lengthen the school day. |
| logical | 5. | The most ........... reason for her poor test scores is that she didn't prepare herself well enough. |
| overlap | 6. | The picture ........... the writing, which makes it difficult to read. |
| merely | 7. | She ........... has to start attending school regularly. That will solve all her problems. |
| incident | 8. | There was an unpleasant ........... on the playground yesterday when a fight started between two groups of students. |
| thereby | 9. | She said sorry to the teacher and ........... avoided a detention. |
| reward | 10. | If you work hard all lesson, I will ........... you by letting you go to lunch five minutes early. |
| passage | 11. | This ........... in your writing doesn't make sense. What are you trying to say? |
| diagram | 12. | The ........... was unclear. It had been hand-drawn and then copied using weak ink. |
| strain | 13. | Teachers fear that the problems in the Middle East may ........... the relationship between some of the Arab and Israeli students at the school. |
| impose | 14. | The school has decided to ........... a ban on smoking anywhere on campus. This also applies to teachers. |
| destroy | 15. | Some young people ........... their lives when they become addicted to drugs.. |
| contrary | 16. | She says she's not a very good pianist, but I know that the ........... is true and she's just being modest. |
| explicit | 17. | I gave you ........... instructions not to open the box. Why did you disobey me? |
| strive | 18. | She said that she will ........... to do better next trimester, but I'm not sure I believe her. |
| pure | 19. | It was ........... luck that he got a good grade in the test. He hadn't studied for it at all. |
| anticipate | 20. | The government does not ........... an improvement in unemployment figures until the beginning of the new year. |
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