Academic vocabulary: Group 8
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approximately - assess - assignment - claim - comprehensive - concept - estimate - expand - facilitate - generation - introduce - lack - limit - manner - pursue - recommend - solve - stage - strategy - yet
assess | 1. | Most students agree that teachers need to ........... them on how much they have learned. |
solve | 2. | Did anyone manage to ........... question 11? |
limit | 3. | This line on the playground is the ........... to where you are allowed to go as a grade 7 student. |
lack | 4. | Your writing shows a basic ........... of care or thought. |
concept | 5. | Some students may find it difficult to understand the ........... of democracy. |
strategy | 6. | The best ........... in learning a new language is to find a girlfriend or boyfriend who speaks it! |
stage | 7. | Now that you have revised your work, the next ........... of the writing process is to edit it for errors of grammar or spelling. |
generation | 8. | In many families precious objects like jewelry or photographs are handed down from one ........... to the next. |
expand | 9. | Metals ........... when heated. |
facilitate | 10. | My father's company is going to ........... our move to Germany by employing an agent to help us find a house here. |
manner | 11. | It's not winning or losing that is important in school sport, but the ........... in which you do it. |
approximately | 12. | There are ........... 350 students in high school. I'm not sure of the exact number. |
yet | 13. | She said she studied hard for the test, ........... she got a very low score. |
recommend | 14. | If you want to improve in English, I ........... that you read plenty of books for pleasure. |
estimate | 15. | I ........... that at least 80% of the students will pass with the top grade. |
comprehensive | 16. | You have written a very clear and ........... report. Well done! |
pursue | 17. | That's the third time she's been late in the last week. I think I need to ........... the matter with her parents. |
claim | 18. | They ........... that they did the work independently of each, but I don't believe them. |
introduce | 19. | The library is going to ........... a new electronic system for checking out books. |
assignment | 20. | This ........... is due on September 23. |
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