Academic Words Flashcards

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Benefit

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Give an advantage or have a good effect

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Illustrate

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Explain or make something clear by giving examples

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Instructions

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Information or advice that tells you how to do something

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Signify

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Express a wish, feeling, or opinion by doing something

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Attribute

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A good or useful quality that something has

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Cooperate

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Work together in order to get a job done

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Emerge

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Appear after being hidden

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Role

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The position, job, or function someone or something has in a group

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Convince

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Make someone feel certain that something it’s true

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Drama

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A play for the theater, television or radio

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Exclude

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Not allow someone to enter a place or do something

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Organization

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A group that has been formed for a particular purpose

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React

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Behave in a particular way because of what someone has done or said to you

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Conclude

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Decide after considering all of the information

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Factor

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One of several things that influence or cause a situation

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Identical

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Exactly the same

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Investigate

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Try to find out the truth

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Research

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Serious study of a subject that is intended to discover new facts about it

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Achievement

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Something important that you succeed in doing through skill and hard work

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Adapt

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Change or behavior or ideas to fit a new situation

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Affect

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Make someone feel strong

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Affect

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Make someone feel strong emotions

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Impact

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Impact the effect that an event or situation has on someone or something

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Motivation

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The reason why a person wants to do something

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Aspect

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One of the parts or features of a situation, idea, or problem

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Challenge

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Something exciting or difficult, requiring sill and effort to do

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Community

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The people that live in the same area, town or city or who have something in common

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Discrimination

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The practice of treating one group of people differently from another in an unfair way

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Participation

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The act of taking part in something

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Period

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A particular length of time in history

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Decline

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Decrease in quality, quantity, or importance

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Individual

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One person

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Influence

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Have an effect on the way someone develops, behaves or thinks

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Vary

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Be different from another

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Communicate

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Express thoughts or feelings

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Culture

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Art, beliefs, or behavior of a particular group of people

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Perspective

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A way of thinking about something that is influenced by the type of person you are

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Symbol

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A picture, person, object, etc, that represents a particular quality, idea or organization

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Tradition

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A belief, custom, or way of doing something that has existed for a long time