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AWL Sublist #1
Academic Word List - Sublist #01 - 60 Entery
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| analyze | to examine or think about something carefully in order to understand it |
| approach | to move closer to someone or something; to ask someone for something when you are not sure if s/he will do what you want |
| area | a particular part of a place, city, country, etc; a particular subject or type of activity |
| assess | to make a judgment abut a person or situation after thinking carefully about it; to calculate the quality, amount, or value of something |
| assume | to think that something is true although you have no proof; take control, power, or a particular position; to start having a particular quality or appearance |
| authority | the power someone has because of his/her official position; someone who is respected because of his/her knowledge about a subject |
| available | if something is available, you can have it, buy it, or use it |
| benefit | the money or other advantages you get from something such as insurance or the government or as part of your job; advantage, improvement or help that you get from something |
| concept | an idea of how something is, or how something should be done |
| consist | to be made of or contain particular things or people |
| constitute | if several parts constitute something, they form it together |
| context | the situation, events, or information that are related to something, and that help you understand it; the words and sentences that come before and after a word that can help you understand its meaning |
| contract | a legal written agreement between two people, companies, etc that says what each will do; to get a contagious illness; to become smaller or tighter |
| create | to make something new exist or happen; to invent or design something |
| data | information or facts |
| define | to explain the exact meaning of a particular word or idea |
| derive | to get something such as happiness, strength or satisfaction from someone or something; to develop or come from something else |
| distribute | to give something such as medicine or food to each person in a large group |
| economy | the way that money, businesses, and products are organized in a particular country, area, etc.; the careful use of money, time, products, etc. so that nothing is wasted |
| environment | the land, water, and air in which people, animals, and plants live; the situations, things, people, etc. that affect the way in which people live and work |
| establish | to start something such as a company, system, situation, etc., especially one that will exist for a long tine; to begin a relationship, conversation, etc., with someone; to find out facts that will prove something is true |
| estimate | to judge the value, size, etc. of something |
| evident | easily noticed or understood |
| export | the business of selling goods to another country |
| factor | one of several things that influence or cause a situation |
| finance | the control of how money is spent, especially for a company or government |
| formula | a method or set of principles that you use in order to solve a problem or to make sure that something is successful |
| function | to work in a particular way or in the correct way; the usual purpose of a thing, or the job that someone usually does; a large party or ceremonial event |
| identify | to recognize and name someone or something |
| income | the money that you earn from working or making investments |
| indicate | to show that something exists or is likely to be true |
| individual | considered separately from other people or things in the same group |
| interpret | to change words spoken in one language into another; translate |
| involve | to include or affect someone or something |
| issue | a subject or problem that people discuss; a magazine, newspaper, etc. printed for a particular day, week, month, or year |
| labor | work, especially work using a lot of physical effort; the process in which a baby is born by being pushed from its mother's body |
| legal | allowed, ordered, or approved by law; relating to the law |
| legislate | to make a law about something |
| major | very large or important, especially when compared to other things or people of a similar kind |
| method | a planned way of doing something |
| occur | to happen, especially without being planned first; to exist or be present in a particular place |
| percent | equal to a particular amount in every hundred |
| period | a length of time (in a particular person's life, in history, in a sports game, etc.) |
| policy | a way of doing things that has been officially agreed and chosen by a political party, business, or organization |
| principle | a moral rule or set of ideas about what is right and wrong, that influences how you behave; the basic idea that a plan or system is based on; a rule that explains the way something works |
| proceed | to continue to do something that has already been planned or started |
| process | a series of actions, developments, or changes that happen naturally; a series of actions that someone does to achieve a particular result |
| require | to need something |
| research | serious study of a subject that is intended to discover new facts about it |
| respond | to react to something that has been said or done |
| role | the position, job, or function, of someone or something has in a particular situation or activity |
| section | one of the parts that an object, group, place, etc. is divided into |
| sector | a part of an area of activity, especially of business, industry, or trade |
| significant | noticeable or important |
| similar | almost the same but not exactly the same |
| source | the thing, place, person, etc. that you get something from; the cause of a problem, or the place where it starts; a person place, or document that you get information from |
| specific | detailed and exact |
| structure | The way something is set up or organized; organization |
| theory | an idea that explains how something works, why something happens, etc., especially something that has not yet been proven true |
| vary | if several things of the same type vary, they are all different from each other |
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