Advanced English Reading and Comprehension

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EXERCISE

Academic vocabularyUsing a dictionary, complete the following chart with the
correct part of speech and deinition of each of the academic words in the reading text.
If a word has multiple meanings, match the deinition to the context in which the word
is used in the text.
Word Part of speech Deinition


  1. acknowledge

  2. commission

  3. conirm

  4. constraint

  5. core

  6. couple

  7. crucial

  8. explicit

  9. ideology

  10. input

  11. intervene

  12. model

  13. notion

  14. persistent

  15. pose

  16. rationality

  17. simulate

  18. underlying

  19. uniformity

  20. unrestrained

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