Vocabulary Quiz on Common Terms

Academic Word List Sublist 4

• Access: The means or opportunity to approach or enter a place.
• Adequate: Satisfactory or acceptable in quality or quantity.
• Annual: Occurring once every year.
• Apparent: Clearly visible or understood; obvious.
• Approximate: Close to the actual, but not completely accurate or exact.
• Attitude: A settled way of thinking or feeling about something.
• Attribute: Regard something as being caused by; a quality or feature regarded as a characteristic.
• Civil: Relating to ordinary citizens and their concerns, as distinct from military or ecclesiastical matters.
• Code: A system of words, letters, figures, or symbols used to represent others, especially for purposes of secrecy.
• Commit: Perpetrate or carry out (a mistake, crime, or immoral act); transfer something to a state or place where it can be kept or preserved.
• Communicate: Share or exchange information, news, or ideas.
• Concentrate: Focus all one's attention on a particular object or activity.
• Confer: [with object] grant (a title, degree, benefit, or right); have discussions; exchange opinions.
• Contrast: The state of being strikingly different from something else.
• Cycle: A series of events that are regularly repeated in the same order.
• Debate: A formal discussion on a particular matter, in which opposing arguments are put forward.
• Despite: Without being affected by; in spite of.
• Dimension: A measurable extent of a particular kind, such as length, breadth, depth, or height.
• Domestic: Relating to the running of a home or to family relations.
• Emerge: Move out of or away from something and become visible.
• Error: A mistake.
• Ethnic: Relating to a population subgroup (within a larger or dominant national or cultural group) with a common national or cultural tradition.
• Goal: The object of a person's ambition or effort; an aim or desired result.
• Grant: Agree to give or allow (something requested).
• Hence: As a consequence; for this reason.
• Hypothesis: A supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence.
• Implicate: Show (someone) to be involved in a crime; convey (a meaning) indirectly.
• Impose: Force (an unwelcome decision or ruling) on someone.
• Integrate: Combine (one thing) with another to form a whole.
• Internal: Of or situated on the inside.
• Investigate: Carry out a systematic or formal inquiry to discover and examine the facts of (an incident, allegation, etc.) so as to establish the truth.
• Job: Paid position of regular employment.
• Label: A small piece of paper, fabric, plastic, or similar material attached to an object giving information about it.
• Mechanism: A system of parts working together in a machine; a piece of machinery
• Obvious: Easily perceived or understood; clear, self-evident, or apparent.
• Occupy: Reside or have one's place of business in (a building).
• Option: A thing that is or may be chosen.
• Output: The amount of something produced by a person, machine, or industry.
• Overall: Taking everything into account.

Academic Word List Sublist 5

• Academic: Associated with academia or an academy.
• Adjustment: The act of making something different.
• Alter: Cause to change.
• Amendment: A statement that is added to a proposal or document.
• Aware: Conscious of; bearing in mind.
• Capacity: The maximum production possible; ability to perform or produce.
• Challenge: A demanding or stimulating situation.
• Clause: (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence.
• Compounds: Substances formed by the joining of elements through chemical bonding.
• Conflict: A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests.
• Consultation: A conference between two or more people to consider a particular question.
• Contact: The state or condition of touching or of being near.
• Decline: A negative slope/downward slope or bend.
• Discretion: The trait of judging wisely and objectively.
• Draft: Preliminary version of a written work.
• Enable: Render capable or able for some task.
• Energy: The ability to do work.
• Enforcement: The act of enforcing or compelling to obey something.
• Entities: Something that exists, whether it be a person, being or organization.
• Equivalent: Equal in amount or value.
• Evolution: A process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage.
• Expansion: The act of increasing in size or volume or quantity or scope.
• Exposure: Presentation to view in an open or public manner.
• External: Happening or located outside or beyond some limits.
• Facilitate: Make easier.
• Fundamental: Serving as an essential component.
• Generated: Produced, prepared.
• Generation: A coming into existence.
• Image: A visual representation of something.
• Liberal: Generous-- giving freely or, a person who favors a progressive political philosophy.
• Licence: A legal document giving official permission to do something.
• Logic: A system of reasoning.
• Marginal: Just barely adequate or within a lower limit.
• Medical: Relating to the study or practice of medicine.
• Mental: Involving the mind or an intellectual process.
• Modified: Changed in form or character.
• Monitoring: The act of observing something (and sometimes keeping a record of it).
• Network: An interconnected system of things or people.
• Notion: A general inclusive concept; goal or purpose.
• Objective: A course introducing a new situation or environment.
• Orientation: A way of regarding situations or topics etc.
• Perspective: A way of regarding situations or topics etc.
• Precise: Sharply exact or accurate or delimited.
• Prime: The time of maturity when power and vigor are greatest.
• Psychology: The science of mental life.
• Pursue: Go in search of or hunt for.
• Ratio: The relative sizes of two quantities.
• Rejected: Cast off as valueless.
• Revenue: The entire amount of income before any deductions are made.
• Stability: The quality of being free from change or variation.
• Styles: Ways of doing or presenting things.
• Substitution: The act of putting one thing or person in the place of another.
• Sustainable: Capable of being continued.
• Symbolic: Serving as a visible symbol for something abstract.
• Target: The goal intended to be attained.
• Transition: The act of passing from one state or place to the next.
• Trend: The popular taste at a given time.
• Version: A work that has been recast in a new form.
• Welfare: Something that aids or promotes well-being.
• Whereas: A transitional word used to show direct contrast.

Academic Word List Sublist 6

• Abstract: A concept or idea not associated with any specific instance.
• Accurate: Correct.
• Acknowledged: Generally accepted.
• Aggregate: The whole amount.
• Allocation: The act of distributing by allotting or apportioning.
• Assigned: Appointed to a post or duty.
• Attached: Fastened together.
• Author: Writer or creator.
• Bond: A connection that fastens things together.
• Brief: Concise and succinct.
• Capable: Having the requisite qualities for.
• Cited: Mentioned.
• Cooperative: Willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement.
• Discrimination: Unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice.
• Display: Something shown to the public.
• Diversity: Noticeable differences among multiple parties or bodies
• Domain: Territory over which rule or control is exercised.
• Edition: Something a little different from others of the same type.
• Enhanced: Increased or intensified in value or beauty or quality.
• Estate: Everything you own.
• Exceed: Be or do something to a greater degree.
• Expert: A person with special knowledge or skill.
• Explicit: Precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable.
• Federal: National.
• Fees: Monies charged for a service.
• Flexibility: The quality of being adaptable, variable or flexible.
• Furthermore: In addition.
• Gender: The classification of being male or female.
• Ignored: Paid no attention to.
• Incentive: A positive motivational influence.
• Incidence: The relative frequency of occurrence of something.
• Incorporated: Formed or united into a whole.
• Index: An alphabetical listing of names and topics along with page numbers where they are discussed.
• Inhibition: Restraint.
• Initiatives: Enterprises, ventures, business opportunities.
• Input: Any stimulating information or event.
• Instructions: Steps or rules to be followed.
• Intelligence: The ability to comprehend.
• Interval: The distance between things.
• Lecture: Teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class).
• Migration: The movement of persons from one country or locality to another.
• Minimum: The smallest possible quantity.
• Ministry: The office, duties, or work of a minister.
• Motivation: The psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal.
• Neutral: Not supporting or favoring either side in a war, dispute, or contest.
• Nevertheless: Despite anything to the contrary.
• Overseas: In a place across an ocean.
• Preceding: Coming before in time or order.
• Presumption: An assumption that is taken for granted.
• Rational: Consistent with or based on or using reason.
• Recovery: Return to an original state.
• Revealed: No longer hidden.
• Scope: An area in which something acts or operates or has control.
• Subsidiary: A company that is completely controlled by another company.
• Tape: A long thin piece of cloth or paper.
• Trace: Follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something.
• Transformation: The act of changing in form or shape or appearance.
• Transport: Move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands.
• Underlying: In the nature of something though not readily apparent.
• Utility: A company that performs a public service.