Academic vocabulary: Group 38
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absorb - accelerate - apparatus - commodity - confident - conscious - defeat - dense - drain - fare - habit - inhibit - isolate - loose - profound - prohibit - remedy - retire - threaten - tolerate
accelerate | 1. | If you push down on the right pedal in your car, you will ........... . |
loose | 2. | He has only ........... control of basic verb grammar. He quite often chooses the wrong tense or forgets the -s ending. |
drain | 3. | You will ........... students of their ability to think for themselves if you never set them challenging questions. |
threaten | 4. | The problems of drug-taking at the school ........... to get out of control. |
absorb | 5. | The teacher spoke so fast that it was difficult to ........... all the information he was giving. |
confident | 6. | I am ........... that you will do well in the examinations. |
profound | 7. | My science teacher has a ........... knowledge of nuclear physics. |
habit | 8. | My teacher has the ........... of telling us the homework in the last minute of the lesson. It's not good. |
inhibit | 9. | Being forced to speak before they are ready can ........... some adults' enjoyment and success in learning a language. |
isolate | 10. | The teacher had to ........... the boy from the rest of the class. His bad behaviour was disrupting their learning. |
commodity | 11. | Respect is not a ........... . You have to earn it; you cannot buy it. |
conscious | 12. | Are you ........... of the fact that you may fail the course |
defeat | 13. | There is no shame in ........... if you have tried your best. |
fare | 14. | ESL students ........... better in classrooms where the teacher is aware of their special needs. |
tolerate | 15. | I will not ........... students laughing at the mistakes of other students. |
remedy | 16. | The nurse gave me a ........... for my headache. |
prohibit | 17. | Strict laws in Germany ........... the opening of shops on a Sunday. |
retire | 18. | Three teachers are going to ........... at the end of the school year. |
dense | 19. | This book has much ........... text that will make it difficult for ESL students. |
apparatus | 20. | At the end of the lesson please put the ........... back in the storeroom. |
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