Academic vocabulary: Group 4
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assume - attempt - average - demonstrate - enable - enhance - entire - error - examine - express - figure - finance - independent - instruction - loss - property - recently - responsibility - seek - significant
| attempt | 1. | If you don't make the basketball team this year, you should ........... it again next year when you are in grade 8. |
| demonstrate | 2. | The science teacher planned to ........... how water evaporates more quickly in hot temperatures. |
| enhance | 3. | Learning lots of academic words will ........... your chances of success in school. |
| assume | 4. | I ........... his strange behaviour recently is the result of his parents' divorce. |
| property | 5. | This computer is the ........... of the school. |
| figure | 6. | When I typed in the term 'English as a Second Language' in Google, I got more than 20 million hits. That's a huge ........... . |
| average | 7. | The ........... student at our school spends about 90 minutes doing homework every evening. |
| examine | 8. | If you want to ........... very small objects, you will need a good microscope. |
| significant | 9. | Your work has shown a ........... improvement in recent weeks. |
| seek | 10. | Students who ........... advice about university courses should make an appointment with the counselor. |
| loss | 11. | She will be a great ........... to the school when she retires next month. She has been a wonderful teacher here for many years. |
| responsibility | 12. | The main ........... of a teacher is to teach. |
| express | 13. | This is an excellent piece of work. You ........... your ideas very clearly. |
| independent | 14. | The aim of teaching is to help students become ........... learners. |
| finance | 15. | All large companies have departments to take care of ........... . |
| instruction | 16. | The school offers basketball ........... in the vacation. |
| recently | 17. | Your work has got much better ........... . |
| error | 18. | There is only one ........... in your writing. You put: He play tennis instead of He plays tennis. |
| enable | 19. | The information that you receive in today's lesson will ........... you to complete your project on nuclear energy. |
| entire | 20. | We spent the ........... lesson talking about the past continuous tense. It was so boring. |
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