Academic vocabulary: Group 55

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harsh - inevitable - marginal - opponent - perk - persist - petition - petty - pioneer - prone - proposition - prosecute - prosper - rash - recollect - remedy - resume - seminar - slump - submit

marginal	1.	There was a ........... improvement in his efforts in the last semester, but not enough to increase his grade.
submit	2.	Remember that you need to ........... your assignment by Friday last lesson.
slump	3.	There has been a considerable ........... in her work since she came back from Italy.
seminar	4.	A ........... at a university is the equivalent of a lesson at school.
resume	5.	We will ........... our discussion of these topic when all students are present.
remedy	6.	Germany has not been able to find a ........... to the problem of youth unemployment in the big cities.
recollect	7.	I don't ........... handing in your assignment. Are you sure you submitted it?
rash	8.	The school made the ........... decision to prohibit students from speaking their own language at break and lunch.
proposition	9.	A group of students went to the headmaster with a ........... for giving them more privileges.
prosecute	10.	The police have decided not to ........... the mother for abandoning her baby outside of the supermarket.
prosper	11.	Children ........... when they are not under constant pressure from their parents to be best in the class.
prone	12.	He is ........... to jumping straight into a piece of writing without properly understanding the writing task.
pioneer	13.	She is a ........... in the field of cosmetic surgery for people with facial disfigurements.
harsh	14.	The school took the ........... but understandable decision to expel the boy for bringing a toy gun to the classroom.
perk	15.	One ........... of being a senior is that you are allowed to go off campus at lunchtime.
persist	16.	If you ........... in various kinds of academic dishonesty, you will be asked to leave the school.
opponent	17.	She is a strong ........... of the plan to build a huge supermarket opposite the school.
inevitable	18.	If a student stays up very late every evening doing homework, it is ........... that he or she will fall sick.
petition	19.	Not many people have signed the ........... to allow students to bring their pets to school. I'm not sure it was a serious proposal anyway.
petty	20.	Young people often get into arguments or fights about ........... issues.

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