Academic vocabulary: Group 57

acquisition - ascertain - assistance - commit - consumer - discretion - distinction - distribute - equate - eradicate - ethnic - evaluation - financial - immoral - option - scarce - security - succinct - superior - variable
scarce 1. Minerals that are very ........... like diamonds and rubies are usually very expensive.
eradicate 2. The school is trying to ........... bullying but cannot prevent day-to-day low-level unpleasantness between students.
succinct 3. Your answer is very ........... , but contains all the relevant information needed.
financial 4. Frankfurt is the ........... center of Germany.
variable 5. Her work is of ........... quality; sometimes mediocre and sometimes excellent.
distribute 6. Please ........... this worksheet to all 10th graders in the class.
security 7. The school spends a lot of money on ........... systems designed to protect students and teachers.
acquisition 8. SLA stands for second language ........... , which is the theory of how students acquire or learn their second language.
commit 9. He was imprisoned for a crime that he did not ........... .
ascertain 10. The school has not yet been able to ........... who vandalised the girls' toilets
consumer 11. Advertising tries to persuade the ........... to buy something that he or she doesn't really need.
evaluation 12. Your report contains many relevant facts but has no ........... of the principal reasons for the problem.
assistance 13. You should always ask for your teacher's ........... if there is something you do not understand or cannot do.
immoral 14. It is ........... to keep a large sum of money that you find on the street.
distinction 15. It is almost impossible to make a ........... between the twins. They look almost identical.
equate 16. Some people say that you cannot ........... abortion and murder since a foetus is not yet a human.
option 17. If you plagiarize once more then I have no ........... but to report you to the principal.
ethnic 18. The major cities of the world all have a large number of ........... groups.
discretion 19. Teachers are permitted to let students leave early at their ........... .
superior 20. In my opinion Dickens' later novels are ........... to those he wrote as a young man.
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