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Academic Word List 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| academy | a school that teaches a particular subject or trains people for a particular job |
| adjust | to move or change something slightly so that it has the desired fit or appearance |
| alter | to change something, usually slightly, or to cause the characteristics of something to change |
| amend | to change the words of a text, especially a law or a legal document |
| aware | having knowledge or perception of a fact or situation |
| capacity | the ability to do a particular thing / the total amount that can be contained or produced |
| challenge | a difficult situation that needs to be overcome |
| clause | a particular part of a written legal document |
| compound | something that is composed of two or more elements |
| conflict | a serious disagreement or argument which usually lasts a long time |
| consult | to get advice or information from a person or book with specialist knowledge on something |
| contact | communication with another person, usually regularly by speaking or writing / the state of touching another person |
| decline | to refuse something / to become worse or lower |
| discrete | the quality of behaving or speaking in such a way as to avoid causing offence or revealing confidential information / individually separate and distinct |
| draft | a version of writing before the final piece |
| enable | to make possible |
| energy | the strength and power to be physically and mentally active / power derived from physical or chemical resources |
| enforce | to make people follow a law, or make people accept a particular situation |
| entity | something that exists separately from other things with an independent existence |
| equivalent | equal in amount, purpose, value, meaning etc |
| evolve | to develop gradually, or to cause something or someone to develop gradually |
| expand | . to increase in size, number, or importance, or to make something increase in this way |
| expose | to remove what is covering something so that it can be seen |
| external | of, on, for, or coming from the outside |
| facilitate | to make something possible or easier |
| fundamental | forming the base, from which everything else develops / more important than anything else |
| generate | to cause something to exist |
| generation | all the people of about the same age within a society or within a particular family |
| image | a picture in your mind or an idea of how someone or something is |
| liberal | respecting and allowing many different types of beliefs or behaviour |
| licence | to give someone official permission to have or do something |
| logic | a way of thinking and reasoning that is based on good judgement and validity |
| margin | the amount by which one thing is different from another |
| medical | relating to the science or practice of medicine |
| mental | relating to the mind, or involving the process of thinking |
| modified | make partial or minor changes to something, such as a plan, document, law or behaviour, to improve it |
| monitor | to watch and check a situation carefully for a period of time in order to discover something about it |
| network | a group or system of interconnected people or things |
| notion | an idea or belief |
| objective | aim or goal |
| orient | to aim something at someone or something, or make something suitable for a particular group of people |
| perspective | a particular way of considering or viewing something |
| precise | exact / accurate |
| prime | main or most important |
| psychology | the scientific study of the human mind and its functions / the influence of a particular person's character on their behaviour |
| pursue | to follow someone or something, usually to try to catch or kill them |
| ratio | the quantitative relation between two amounts, which expresses how much bigger one is than the other |
| rejected | to refuse to accept, use, or believe something or someone |
| revenue | the income that a government or company receives regularly |
| stable | firmly fixed or not likely to move or change |
| styles | typical way that something is done, especially by a person or group, or in a particular time or place |
| subsitute | to replace someone or something with an alternative |
| sustain | to continue for a long time / to suffer or experience some kind of danger or loss |
| symbol | a sign, object, or shape which represents something else |
| target | a specific level or situation someone aims to achieve |
| transit | the movement of goods or people from one place to another |
| trend | a general change or development in a situation or in the way that people are behaving |
| version | a particular form of something that is slightly different from other forms of the same thing |
| welfare | physical and mental health and happiness, especially of a person / assistance provided by the state for those who do not have enough money |
| whereas | but; compared with the fact that |
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