Academic vocabulary: Group 48
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accuse - allege - assent - averse - deteriorate - detriment - disturb - entitle - exaggerate - expel - fallacy - fluctuate - forego - frustrate - invisible - magnify - precaution - recur - sane - stipulate
| deteriorate | 1. | Your grades will continue to ........... unless you start working harder. |
| fluctuate | 2. | His opinions ........... sometimes he thinks science is the most interesting subject and sometimes the most boring. |
| recur | 3. | Please make sure your dangerous behaviour does not ........... . |
| invisible | 4. | The air in this room is ........... , but we know it's here otherwise we'd die. |
| accuse | 5. | If you ........... a student of plagiarism, you must have strong evidence. |
| stipulate | 6. | The rules of the school ........... that you must leave your mobile phone in your locker and not bring it to class. |
| allege | 7. | The teachers ........... that the school administration is secretly planning to increase working hours. |
| fallacy | 8. | It is a ........... to think that you can put off working until the week before the exam and still pass it. |
| detriment | 9. | We must hope that her heavy involvement in the school's sporting programme will not be to the ........... of her studies. |
| forego | 10. | The students had to ........... the planned class picnic when the day started with heavy rain and wind. |
| entitle | 11. | Buying a lunch ticket in advance will ........... you to a free drink. |
| magnify | 12. | The fact that he can only speak a little English is sure to ........... his already severe learning problems. |
| exaggerate | 13. | Do not ........... You're only 10 years old. You couldn't have read thousands of books! |
| expel | 14. | If a student is caught with drugs in the building, the school will ........... him or her. |
| assent | 15. | You will need to get your parents' ........... for your attendance at the sex education classes. |
| precaution | 16. | The school has installed emergency buttons in each classroom as a ........... against intruders. |
| frustrate | 17. | Badly- behaved students often ........... the learning of other students in the class. |
| sane | 18. | The school cafeteria has made the ........... decision not to offer hamburgers, hot dogs and French fries to the younger students . |
| averse | 19. | Most teachers are ........... to students wearing hats or chewing gum in the classroom. |
| disturb | 20. | This will be a reading lesson. Please do not ........... it by trying to talk. |
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