Academic vocabulary: Group 56
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annual - appear - base - committee - facilities - final - force - function - image - join - participate - potential - power - record - release - status - structure This page XX theory - various
committee | 1. | The school established a ........... to discuss the introduction of a bilingual programme. |
release | 2. | Please ........... that spider from the box. It will die if you keep it in there. |
facilities | 3. | The school's ........... have been improved recently with the addition of a second library and media centre. |
power | 4. | The student council can offer suggestions, but it has no ........... to make changes happen. |
status | 5. | Some subjects in our school have a higher ........... than others. Everyone wants to take science, but few want to study a second language. |
participate | 6. | You should ........... a little more in class discussions. This will help to improve your spoken English. |
structure | 7. | The ........... of your writing is not at all clear to me. |
function | 8. | The ........... of the arteries is to transport oxygen around the body. |
join | 9. | If you want to ........... the chess club, please sign your name on the list below. |
appear | 10. | The President will ........... on TV this evening to talk about the riots in the capital city. |
various | 11. | There are ........... ways that you can improve your English. Probably the best is to do plenty of reading. |
image | 12. | To learn a new word, it often helps to make an ........... of it in your mind. |
theory | 13. | Many a ........... that was once believed by everyone later proves to be false - e.g. that the sun goes around the earth. |
potential | 14. | He has the ........... to be a professional soccer player. He is only 11 but he is already better than anyone else in the school. |
force | 15. | The school cannot ........... its teachers to give up smoking, but it can tell them not to smoke inside the building. |
base | 16. | School need to ........... their curricula on the needs of the students who attend them. |
record | 17. | There is no ........... of you having paid for the trip. Are you sure? |
annual | 18. | The government will today publish its ........... report on crime statistics. |
final | 19. | The ........... question in the test was the most difficult. |
summary | 20. | Please write a ........... of the most important causes of the French Revolution |
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