Academic vocabulary: Group 57
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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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