Academic vocabulary: Group 60

advance - affect - avoid - background - decision - distance - explain - global - indicate - institution - lecture - legal - measure - particular - prepare - purchase - region - similar - store - topic
indicate 1. You must ........... at the top of the page how many words you wrote.
institution 2. Harvard is probably the most famous education ........... in the USA.
prepare 3. If you have to give a speech you must ........... for it carefully. First write out speech cards, then practise at home with your parents.
particular 4. She has no ........... difficulties with English, but she just seems to be learning very slowly.
decision 5. The school has made the difficult ........... to ban the wearing of religious symbols in the classroom.
advance 6. The German army planned to ........... as far as Moscow, but were then stopped by the severe Russian winter.
affect 7. If you fail the last test, this will seriously ........... your overall grade for the year.
topic 8. The ........... I liked best in ESL class this year was Cultural Differences.
global 9. ........... warming is a problem that we will hear more and more about.
lecture 10. The teacher gave me a ........... about the need to be in class on time with all my materials.
similar 11. The school had ........... exam results to last year, with the exception except that mathematics scores were a little higher.
background 12. With her ........... it is not surprising that she has had problems in her new school.
explain 13. I like teachers who can ........... clearly what we have to do.
measure 14. It is not always easy to ........... student progress.
distance 15. The ........... from Frankfurt to Oberursel is about 12 kilometers.
store 16. This is the room where we ........... the science equipment ready for use in the classroom.
avoid 17. I ........... the cafeteria at lunchtime. It's too crowded and noisy.
legal 18. The parents took ........... advice when the school expelled their daughter for repeated plagiarism.
purchase 19. The school plans to ........... a new computer for each of its teachers.
region 20. The school is located in the wooded ........... to the north west of Frankfurt.
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