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Davidrsy on September 14, 2009
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Academic word list sublist one
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Academic sublist 1 in english
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 analysis | the process of carefully examining the different parts of something |
| approach | a way of doing something |
| area | a part of a town, country or the world: |
| assessment | a judgment of how good, bad or important something is, test, exam |
| assume | to think that something is true although you are not really sure: |
| authority | a group of people that tell other people what they must do: the city authorities; an expert |
| available | ready for you to use, have or see: |
| benefit | something that is good or helpful; to be good or helpful for somebody: |
| concept | a principle or idea |
| consistent | always the same: |
| constitutional | following the laws of a country, a state or an organization |
| context | the words that come before and after another word or sentence: |
| contract | an official piece of paper that says that somebody agrees to do something: |
| create | to make something happen or exist: |
| data | facts or information: |
| definition | a group of words that tell you what another word means |
| derive | to come from something |
| distribution | the process of giving things out to several people, or spreading or supplying something |
| economic | connected with the way that people and countries spend money and make, buy and sell things: |
| environment | the air, water, land, animals and plants around us; everything around you |
| establish | to start something new: |
| derive | to get something from something else |
| estimate | a guess about the size or cost of something before you have all the facts and figures: |
| evidence | the facts, signs or objects that make you believe that something is true: |
| export | to sell things to another country: |
| factor | a fact or situation which influences the result of something |
| financial | connected with money: |
| formula | a group of letters, numbers or symbols that show a rule in mathematics or science: |
| formula | a list of the substances that you need to make something: |
| function | the natural purpose (of something) or the duty (of a person) |
| identify | to say or know who somebody is or what something is: |
| income | all the money that you receive for your work, for example: |
| indicate | to show that something is true, exists or will happen: |
| indicate | to make somebody notice something, especially by pointing to it: |
| individual | considered separately and not as part of a group: |
| interpretation | an explanation of something: |
| involve | to have something as a part: |
| involve | If you involve somebody in something, you make them take part in it: |
| issue | an important problem that people talk about: |
| labour | hard work that you do with your hands and body: |
| legal | allowed by the law: |
| legislation | a law or set of laws suggested by a government and made official by a parliament |
| major | very large, important or serious: |
| method | a way of doing something: |
| occur | to happen: |
| percent | in each hundred: % |
| period | an amount of time: |
| period | the time when a woman loses blood from her body each month |
| policy | the plans of a government or organization: |
| principle | a rule about how you should live: |
| principle | a rule or fact about how something happens or works: |
| procedure | a set of actions which is the official or accepted way of doing something |
| process | a number of actions, one after the other, for doing or making something: |
| require | to need something: |
| requirement | something that you need or that you must have |
| research | studying something carefully to find out more about it: |
| response | an answer to somebody or something |
| role | what a person does, for example in an organization or a relationship: |
| section | one of the parts of something: |
| sector | one of the areas into which the economic activity of a country is divided |
| significant | important ; with a special meaning |
| similar | the same in some ways but not completely the same: |
| source | a place where something comes from: |
| specific | exact and clear: |
| specific | particular: |
| structure | the way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in this way |
| theory | an idea that tries to explain something: |
| variable | likely to change often |
| variable | a number, amount or situation which can change |
| procedure | a medical operation |
| sector | an area of land or sea that has been divided from other areas and is controlled by a particular country |
| private sector | businesses and industries that are not owned or controlled by the government |
| public sector | businesses and industries that are owned or controlled by the government |
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