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Academic Word List 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abandon | to leave a person, place or thing, usually permanently / to stop doing an activity before it is finished |
| accompany | to go with someone to a particular place, often a social event |
| accumulate | to collect a large number of things over a long period of time / to gradually increase in number or amount |
| ambiguous | expressing something that has more than one possible meaning, sometimes on purpose |
| append | to add something to the end of a piece of writing or a document |
| appreciate | to be grateful for something someone has done for you |
| arbitrary | something happening through chance rather than reasoning or a plan |
| automate | to make a process operate by computers or machines rather than humans in order to reduce time and cost |
| bias | the act of favouring one particular side unfairly, based on personal opinion |
| chart | a drawing used to show information in a simple way, usually with lines or curves showing amounts / a detailed map of an area of water |
| clarify | to make something easier or clear to understand by giving a simpler explanation or more details |
| conform | to behave according to the usual standards of behaviour that are expected by a group or society |
| commodity | a product or substance which can be bought, traded, or sold |
| complement | to make something else seem attractive or better by combining it with something else |
| contemporary | happening or existing now |
| contradict | to say the opposite of what someone else has said, indicating that one person must be wrong |
| crucial | Necessary or very important |
| currency | the money used in a country |
| denote | to represent something |
| detect | to discover or notice something, usually something hidden and using a special method to find it |
| deviation | to go in a different direction or to change from the usual way |
| displace | to force something or someone out of its usual or original place |
| drama | excitement or interest caused by a surprising or unexpected situation / a play (usually serious) performed by actors |
| eventually | happening at a later time or an end result |
| exhibit | to show |
| exploit | to use something for your own benefit, possibly in an unfair way |
| fluctuate | to move frequently between positions or levels |
| guidelines | information that explains how something should be done |
| highlight | the best or most interesting part of something |
| implicit | something suggested but not said directly |
| induced | |
| inevitably | |
| infrastructure | |
| inspection | |
| intensity | |
| manipulation | |
| minimised | |
| nuclear | |
| offset | |
| paragraph | |
| plus | |
| practitioners | |
| predominantly | |
| prospect | |
| radical | |
| random | |
| reinforced | |
| restore | |
| revision | |
| schedule | |
| tension | |
| termination | |
| theme | |
| thereby | |
| uniform | |
| vehicle | |
| via | |
| virtually | |
| widespread | |
| visual |
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