Advanced English Reading and Comprehension

The Human Genome Project: Writing the book of life 21

9. The military government was criticized in the media for its of basic
   human rights to its citizens.
   a. denial
   b. denied
   c. deny


10. What is the number of students who will be attending college next
    year?
    a. estimation
    b. estimated
    c. estimate

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EXERCISE

Nonacademic vocabulary Match each nonacademic word or phrase in column 1

with its deinition in column 2. Then, indicate each item’s part of speech (n., v., or adj.).

1. abuse


2. accomplish


3. alleviation


4. embark


5. engineer


6. issue


7. preeminent


8. sophisticated


9. stigmatization
   10. susceptibility

a. highly developed and complex

b. an important topic or problem to be resolved

c. the wrong use of something

d. the state of being easily harmed or afected

e. better than all others

f. achieve or complete something successfully

g. design and build

h. treatment of something as unworthy

i. begin a new project or course of action

j. the reduction of pain or severity