Academic vocabulary: Group 31
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absent - accordingly - adhere - arbitrary - attain - behave - evident - evolve - fault - formulate - interfere - margin - mixture - obligation - react - refuse - revise - royal - trigger - undertake
evolve | 1. | It is interesting to think about how teaching will ........... under the influence of digital technologies. |
interfere | 2. | He has a heavy accent but this does not ........... with understanding what he means. |
mixture | 3. | The test will be a ........... of reading comprehension passages and short writing texts. |
undertake | 4. | Teachers ........... to improve student scores in standardized tests by doing 5 minutes practice at the start of every lesson. |
revise | 5. | The third stage of the writing process is when you ........... your work. This means that you make any necessary changes to its structure or content. |
margin | 6. | The ........... between success and failure is often very small. |
accordingly | 7. | Those are the rules of the school and I expect you to behave ........... . |
attain | 8. | If you work harder, you will ........... a better grade next term. |
refuse | 9. | I ........... to sit next to John any more. He never lets me work. |
behave | 10. | Standing on the table is certainly no way to ........... in the cafeteria! |
formulate | 11. | I often find it difficult to ........... my advice so that the ESL beginners in the class can understand me. |
fault | 12. | It is not really her ........... that she comes late to school so often. She lives a long way away, and often gets stuck in a traffic jam. |
obligation | 13. | All children below the age of 16 have the ........... to attend school. |
evident | 14. | It is ........... that she has a talent for languages. She has learned English very quickly this year. |
arbitrary | 15. | The pass / fail grade is not ........... . It was set at 45% after much thought and discussion. |
royal | 16. | The ........... family is expected to drive past the school tomorrow morning. The children will be standing by the road waving flags. |
absent | 17. | If you are ........... much more often, you are in danger of failing the class. |
trigger | 18. | Bright flashing lights ........... headaches in some people. |
adhere | 19. | If you do not ........... to the rules of the school, you will be asked to leave. |
react | 20. | The teacher look like she was going to ........... angrily when I came late, but fortunately for me, she didn't! |
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