Academic vocabulary: Group 51

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accumulation - adaptation - clarity - consecutive - deviate - disposal - exploitation - guidelines - implicit - infrastructure - inherit - objective - perception - revision - simulate - solely - tension - termination - tutorial - ultimately

disposal	1.	No completely safe method has yet been found for the ........... of nuclear waste.
solely	2.	He is ........... responsible for the impossible situation in which we now find ourselves.
ultimately	3.	You have worked hard throughout the year but ........... your grade will be based on your examination results.
tutorial	4.	Please book a ........... at the Writing Center to discuss the organisation of your composition.
simulate	5.	It is often helpful for younger students to ........... being put under peer pressure. They are then prepared to resist it when it really happens.
inherit	6.	The new government will ........... a large number of problems from its predecessor.
objective	7.	This is an ........... report; you are not expected to include your own thoughts or opinions.
perception	8.	An important, but not the only, source of our knowledge comes from ........... .
adaptation	9.	This film is an ........... of the original novel by Charles Dickens.
termination	10.	The teacher's continual absences lead to the ........... of his contract with the school.
exploitation	11.	If we do not stop the ........... of the rainforest, it is possible that it will cease to exist a hundred year from now.
revision	12.	Your writing contains several structural problems and is in need of ........... before you turn it in for grading.
implicit	13.	Your thesis is ........... in your introduction paragraph, but you need to rewrite it as a clear, explicit statement.
tension	14.	There was a lot of ........... in the city after two bombs had exploded on consecutive days.
consecutive	15.	You are in detention for being late to class on three ........... days.
clarity	16.	The grammar of your writing is good but there were problems with its ........... . Many sentences were difficult to understand.
accumulation	17.	The ........... of money is a major preoccupation for many people.
infrastructure	18.	Much of the town's ........... was destroyed in the war and has not yet been rebuilt.
deviate	19.	You will have many problems if you ........... from the regulations we put in place for this project.
guidelines	20.	Students who do not follow the ........... of the assignment or examination question often find that their grade is lower than expected.

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