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Vocab Weeks 13-17
Academic Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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to discuss something with other people so that everyone can express her opinions and decide on something; to officially give someone an award, a degree, a right, etc. | confer |
to stop someone from doing something he wants to do; to prevent something from developing and improving | constrain |
a serious argument or disagreement among many people over a plan, decision, etc. over a long period of time | controversy |
to organize people or things so that they work together well or succeed; to make the parts of your body move and work well together; one of a set of numbers which gives the exact position of a point on a map, computer screen, etc. | coordinate |
belonging or relating to a big company or a group of companies acting together; shared by or involving all the members or a group | corporate |
the plural of criterion; a standard which is established so that a judgment or decision, especially a scientific one, can be made | criteria |
to make a judgment about something, based on the information that you have | deduce |
without being prevented by something; even though something else exists or is true | despite |
a part of a situation that affects the way you think about it; aspect; used in physics to describe the measurements of physical objects in length, time, etc.; the size of something, especially when this is given as its length, height, and width | dimension |
a piece of paper that has official information written on it; a piece of work that you write on a computer; to write about something, film it, photograph it, etc. in order to record information about it | document |
a servant who works in a house; happening or produced within one country and not involving any other countries; relating to family relationships and life at home; used in the house or home | domestic |
to appear or come out from somewhere; if facts emerge, they come out after being hidden or secret; to come out of a difficult experience, often with a new quality or position; to begin to be known or noticed | emerge |
to give someone something that they have asked for especially official permission to do something; an amount of mone goven to a person or organization, especially by the government, for a particular purpose | grant |
an idea that is suggested as an explanation for something, but that has not yet proven to be true | hypothesis |
a tool or an instrument, especially one used in farming or building; if you implement a plan, process, etc., you begin to make it happen | implement |