AWL 2 (with pictures)
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myersale Plus on January 15, 2012
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Vocabulary from the Academic Word List, Sublists 3 and 4 combined. (with pictures)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
apparent | ![]() obvious to the mind or senses |
approximate | ![]() guessed or estimated based on available information |
attribute | to believe that something is the result of a particular situation, event, or person's actions |
commit | ![]() the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action |
compensate | ![]() to change or remove the bad result of something |
component | ![]() one of the different parts that a machine or piece of equipment consists of |
consent | ![]() permission to do something |
constrain | ![]() to limit someone's freedom to do what they want |
convene | ![]() to arrange a formal meeting, or to gather for a meeting |
coordinate | ![]() to organize the different parts of a job or plan so that the people involved work together effectively |
corporate | ![]() relating to large companies, or to a particular large company |
correspond | to be the same as something else, or very much like it |
deduce | to know something as a result of considering the information or evidence that you have |
demonstrate | ![]() to show clearly that something is true or that it exists |
despite | in spite of, notwithstanding |
domestic | of or involving the home or family |
emerge | ![]() to come out of something or out from behind something |
ethnic | ![]() relating to a group of people who have the same culture and traditions |
grant | ![]() to allow someone to have or do what they want |
hence | a way of starting a sentence, clause, or phrase, showing how it is related to what has just been said: Crime is on the increase; hence the need for more police. |
hypothesis | an idea that attempts to explain something but has not yet been tested or proved to be correct |
implement | ![]() the process of putting something into practice |
implicate | to show or suggest that someone is involved in something illegal or morally wrong |
impose | ![]() to introduce something such as a new law or new system, and force people to accept it |
occupy | ![]() if someone occupies a room, building, area of land, seat, bed, or other place during a period of time, they use it |
output | ![]() the amount of something that a person, organization, system etc produces |
parallel | ![]() 1) lines that are parallel are the same distance apart at every point along their whole length 2) happening at the same time or in the same way but separately |
parameter | a limit that affects how something can be done |
principal | ![]() 1) main, or most important 2) head of a school or other educational establishment |
prior | happening, existing, or done before a particular time |
promote | 1) to support or encourage something2) to help something develop |
regime | ![]() a government that controls a country, especially in a strict or unfair way |
resolve | ![]() to solve a problem, or to find a satisfactory way of dealing with a disagreement |
retain | to keep someone or something |
status | ![]() the legal position of a person, country etc |
subsequent | happening or coming after something else |
undertake | to agree to be responsible for a job or a project and do it |
immigrate | ![]() to come into a country because you want to live there |
imply | to suggest that you think something without saying it directly |
instance | an example of something happening |
justify | ![]() to show that there is a good reason for something, especially something that other people think is wrong |
negate | ![]() to make something have no effect |
outcome | the final or possible result of a process, meeting, activity etc. |
proportion | ![]() the relationship between two or more quantities or parts of a whole |
scheme | ![]() a plan that is developed by a government or large organization in order to provide a particular service for people |
sequence | ![]() a set of related things that happen or are arranged in a particular order |
specify | ![]() to explain something in an exact and detailed way |
sufficient | ![]() as much as is needed; good enough |
technique | ![]() a method of doing something using a special skill that you have developed |
valid | ![]() correct or accepted by most |
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