Academic Words Flashcards
Benefit
Give an advantage or have a good effect
Illustrate
Explain or make something clear by giving examples
Instructions
Information or advice that tells you how to do something
Signify
Express a wish, feeling, or opinion by doing something
Attribute
A good or useful quality that something has
Cooperate
Work together in order to get a job done
Emerge
Appear after being hidden
Role
The position, job, or function someone or something has in a group
Convince
Make someone feel certain that something it’s true
Drama
A play for the theater, television or radio
Exclude
Not allow someone to enter a place or do something
Organization
A group that has been formed for a particular purpose
React
Behave in a particular way because of what someone has done or said to you
Conclude
Decide after considering all of the information
Factor
One of several things that influence or cause a situation
Identical
Exactly the same
Investigate
Try to find out the truth
Research
Serious study of a subject that is intended to discover new facts about it
Achievement
Something important that you succeed in doing through skill and hard work
Adapt
Change or behavior or ideas to fit a new situation
Affect
Make someone feel strong
Affect
Make someone feel strong emotions
Impact
Impact the effect that an event or situation has on someone or something
Motivation
The reason why a person wants to do something
Aspect
One of the parts or features of a situation, idea, or problem
Challenge
Something exciting or difficult, requiring sill and effort to do
Community
The people that live in the same area, town or city or who have something in common
Discrimination
The practice of treating one group of people differently from another in an unfair way
Participation
The act of taking part in something
Period
A particular length of time in history
Decline
Decrease in quality, quantity, or importance
Individual
One person
Influence
Have an effect on the way someone develops, behaves or thinks
Vary
Be different from another
Communicate
Express thoughts or feelings
Culture
Art, beliefs, or behavior of a particular group of people
Perspective
A way of thinking about something that is influenced by the type of person you are
Symbol
A picture, person, object, etc, that represents a particular quality, idea or organization
Tradition
A belief, custom, or way of doing something that has existed for a long time
