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Academic Word List 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| access | the right or opportunity to use or look at something / the method or possibility of getting near to a place or person |
| adequate | enough |
| annual | yearly |
| apparent | able to be seen or understood / seeming to exist or be true |
| approximate | Not exact |
| attitudes | a feeling or opinion about someone or something |
| attribute | regard something as being caused by something else / a characteristic or quality that someone or something has |
| civil | related to the ordinary life of citizens rather than military, legal, or religious |
| code | a set of rules or principles |
| commit | to do something illegal or wrong / a promise |
| communication | to share information with others by writing, speaking, body movements, or other signals |
| concentrate | to focus attention or effort on a particular task or activity |
| confer | |
| contrast | the difference between two or more things |
| cycle | to happen in a particular order, one event following another |
| debate | to discuss or argue something formally / to consider something; deliberate |
| despite | to not be prevented by something |
| dimensions | a measurement of something’s height, length, or width |
| domestic | |
| emerged | to appear by coming out of something or out from behind something / to come to the end of a difficult period or experience |
| error | mistake |
| ethnic | relating to a particular race of people |
| goals | aim or purpose |
| grant | money given, usually by the government, to an organization or person for a special purpose |
| hence | |
| hypothesis | an explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation |
| implement | to put a decision, plan or agreement into effect |
| implicate | to show that someone is involved in something bad, usually a crime |
| impose | to force something, such as a decision, on someone else |
| integrate | to mix with another society or group, often changing to adapt to this / combining things to become more effective |
| internal | occurring inside someone or something else |
| investigate | to discover the truth about something (often a crime) through careful examination |
| job | work / difficult activity or problem |
| label | words or phrases used to describe the characteristics of someone or something / a piece of paper used to give information about the thing it is attached to |
| mechanism | a part of a machine, or a set of parts that work together / a way of doing something that is planned |
| obvious | clear; easy to see or understand |
| occupy | fill or take up a space or time / reside or have one’s place of business in (a building) |
| option | one thing that can be chosen from a set of possibilities |
| output | |
| overall | taking everything into account |
| parallel | . when the distance between things is the same all along their length / a similarity between two things |
| parameters | a set of limits about how something must happen or be done |
| phase | a stage in a process of development or series of events |
| predict | to say or guess what is going to happen in the future, usually based on some knowledge or experience |
| principal | the most important |
| prior | happening before something else |
| professional | |
| project | planned work that takes a period of time and is intended to achieve a particular aim |
| promote | to encourage people to buy, use, like, do, or support something |
| regime | a particular government or a system or method of government, usually viewed in a disapproving way by other governments |
| resolve | to solve or end a problem or difficulty |
| retain | keep |
| series | a number of similar or related events or things that follow one after another |
| statistics | a numerical fact / information based on a study of the number of times something happens or is present |
| status | relative social or professional position |
| stress | mental or emotional tension or strain caused by difficult circumstances |
| subsequent | happening after something else |
| sum | the total of things when added together or something when considered as a whole |
| summary | a short, clear description that gives the main facts or ideas about something |
| undertake | a commitment to begin something that will be hard or difficult |
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NoelleBordelon