Academic Word List - Sublist 7

Adapt

To change your ideas or behaviour to deal with a new situation

Adult

Fully grown, or no longer a child

Advocate

To publicly support a policy or way of doing something

Aid

Money, food or other help given to people who need it, or help with doing something

Channel

A way of communicating or expressing something, a television station and its programmes

Chemical

A substance used in chemistry, or produced by a reaction between two substances

Classical

Following the original or traditional standard for something

Comprehensive

Including everything

Comprise

To form something, to consist of something

Confirm

To show or say that something is true, or to show or tell someone that something will definitely happen

Contrary

Completely different or opposed to something else

Convert

To change from one system to another

Couple

Two things or people of the same type, or a romantic partnership

Decade

A period of ten years

Definite

Clearly decided, specific, certain

Deny

To say that something is not true, to not allow someone to do or have something

Differentiate

To see or show a difference between things

Dispose

To get rid of something that you no longer need

Dynamic

Very lively and enthusiastic, with a lot of energy and determination, or constantly changing

Eliminate

To get rid of something not wanted or needed

Empirical

Based on real experience or results, not on theory

Equipment

The tools, machines or other things you need for a particular job

Extract

To remove something from something else

File

A set of documents containing information, or information stored on a computer and given a particular name

Finite

Existing only in limited numbers or amounts, or continuing for only a limited time or distance

Foundation

The most basic part of something from which

Global

Including or affecting the whole world, or all the parts of something

Grade

A level of quality of something, or the letter or number which tells you the quality of something

Guarantee

Something that makes something else certain to happen, a promise that something definitely will happen

Hierarchy

A system for organizing people or things according to their status, or the group of people who control an organization

Identical

Exactly the same

Ideology

A system of ideas and principles on which a political or economic system is based

Infer

To form an opinion based on the information you already have about a subject

Innovation

A new idea or piece of equipment, or the use of new ideas

Insert

To put something into something else

Intervention

A situation in which someone becomes involved in a problem, in order to influence what happens

Isolate

To keep someone or something in a place that is separate from others

Media

Radio, television, newspapers and the Internet, considered as a group.

Mode

A particular way of doing something, or one of a series of ways that a machine can be made to work

Paradigm

A typical example or model of something, a set of ideas used for understanding something in a particular subject

Phenomenon

An event or situation, especially one that is surprising or impressive

Priority

Something important that must be done first, or the importance that you give to something that must be done

Prohibit

To officially stop people from doing something

Publish

The process of making information available to the public to read, especially in book or magazine form

Quote

To say or write words that someone else has said or written

Release

To stop holding something, to let someone or something leave, to make information available

Reverse

To change something like a process or policy, so that it becomes the opposite of what it was. To change the direction of something to its opposite.

Simulate

To produce the features of something in a way that seems real, but is not

Solely

Involving nothing else except the person or thing mentioned

Somewhat

To some degree, but not to a large degree

Submit

To formally give something to another person for their decision, or to accept that someone else has power over you

Successive

Coming or happening one after another in a series

Survive

To continue to live or exist in a difficult situation

Thesis

A long piece of writing which is the end of a university degree course, or the theory someone uses to explain something

Topic

The subject that you write or speak about

Transmission

The process of sending electronic signals from one place to another, or sending something in general

Ultimately

After a process or activity has ended, or used to emphasize the main point of what you are saying

Unique

Very special or unusual, not the same as anything else

Visible

Able to be seen

Voluntary

Done because someone chooses to do it, not because they have to