Academic vocabulary: Group 37
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accumulate - appoint - assemble - cease - cooperate - devote - dimension - episode - hardly - hesitate - infer - inquire - legitimate - passive - persist - prompt - rotate - slight - straightforward - supervise
| slight | 1. | He has a ........... chance of getting in to Oxford University if he gets top scores in all his exams. |
| cooperate | 2. | In this next task you need to ........... with the person sitting next to you. |
| infer | 3. | From the quality of the writing I can only ........... that someone helped him. His work is usually nowhere near as good. |
| dimension | 4. | The issue is of a ........... that cannot be solved by the school alone. |
| assemble | 5. | Please ........... in the cafeteria after lunch. |
| inquire | 6. | Where can I ........... about the teaching job I saw in the newspaper? |
| accumulate | 7. | If you learn a few new words every day, your vocabulary will soon ........... . |
| devote | 8. | The twins ........... most of the weekend to their fishing hobby. |
| hesitate | 9. | Many people ........... before eating raw fish for the first time. They are not sure what it will taste like. |
| straightforward | 10. | It was a very ........... test. Everyone got 100%. |
| prompt | 11. | You will not get a ........... reply to your email. He is very busy at the moment. |
| supervise | 12. | We need one more teacher to ........... the cafeteria at lunch times. |
| legitimate | 13. | If your parents want too take you out of school during term time, they must have a ........... reason. |
| persist | 14. | He has generally improved his writing but his problems with spelling ........... . |
| hardly | 15. | There are ........... any teachers at the school who cannot speak at least two languages. |
| appoint | 16. | Due to a rapid increase in the number of students the school needs to ........... 4 new teachers. |
| rotate | 17. | If you ........... the globe by 360°, you will return to your starting point. |
| passive | 18. | She is so ........... in German class. It's no wonder that she can hardly speak a word of the language. |
| cease | 19. | If your disruptive behaviour does not ........... , you are in danger of being expelled. |
| episode | 20. | Our teacher showed us an ........... of The Simpsons in ESL class yesterday. |
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