Academic vocabulary: Group 49
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assurance - colleague - conventions - coordinate - core - criteria - deductions - harm - implement - investment - likewise - malicious - minority - nonetheless - overcome - primary - secure - seek - validity - violation
likewise | 1. | Sang-jae often asks how to express an idea correctly in English. I suggest you do ........... . |
nonetheless | 2. | Rescuers have not been able to locate the missing plane that went missing a week ago; ........... , they believe that the passengers may still be alive. |
colleague | 3. | He is a ........... of mine, but I don't know him very well. |
violation | 4. | The student was expelled for a ........... of the school's drugs policy. |
harm | 5. | People who suffer from depression or high levels of stress are more likely to ........... themselves with addictive habits. |
overcome | 6. | She was able to ........... the severe problems of her childhood and lead a happy, fulfilled life. |
secure | 7. | Many websites that students visit are not ........... . They either collect unauthorized information or download harmful viruses or other malicious software. |
malicious | 8. | The student was suspended for spreading ........... rumors about a teacher. |
seek | 9. | Many students ........... information on Google without knowing how to filter the results by date or reading level. |
primary | 10. | The ........... language of many ESL students at FIS is Korean or Japanese. |
investment | 11. | Most students find that an ........... in learning vocabulary pays off later in good examination results. |
conventions | 12. | Written language has several ........... . One of these is that the main words of titles are capitalized. |
deductions | 13. | Scientists and detectives make ........... based on their examination of evidence or data. |
coordinate | 14. | Teachers of the same subjects at FIS often meet to ........... their teaching methods and content. |
validity | 15. | Your deduction has no ........... if you do not say how you arrived at it and what data you used. |
criteria | 16. | Your ESL writing grade is based on several ........... which include content, clarity and grammar. |
minority | 17. | Only a ........... of teachers at FIS can speak more than two languages. |
core | 18. | You have written a lot about immigration, but you haven't analysed the ........... issue of its advantages and disadvantages for the receiving nation. |
implement | 19. | The company wanted to ........... longer working hours, but had to back down when the workers went on strike. |
assurance | 20. | I give you my ........... that I will not make the same mistake again. |
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