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Academic Word List Sublist 9

Here we move on to practice exercises for the academic word list sublist 9, words 11 - 20.

Words 11-20

  • Commence
  • Compatible
  • Concurrent
  • Confine
  • Controversy
  • Converse
  • Device
  • Devote
  • Diminish
  • Distort

Exercise 1

Which of the above AWL words do you know? Match the definitions to the word:

1. to reduce or be reduced in importance or size

2. to limit a person, activity, or problem in some way

3. to begin something

4. disagreements or arguments about something that is important to or affects many people

5. an object or machine that has been invented for a specific purpose

6. to change something from its original, usual, natural, or intended condition, meaning, or shape

7. happening or existing at the same time

8. to give a large amount of your effort or time doing something, or to a person or something you believe in

9. existing, living together, or working successfully with something or someone else

10. the opposite

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Academic Word List Sublist 9b - Correct answers:




Exercise 2

Choose which word will fit in the gap:

1. Banning the Russian team from the 2016 Olympics was a decision. It caused significant friction between Russia and some other countries.

2. A recording is used to keep a record of all the police interviews.

3. At the conference there will be 4 sessions running , so you will have to choose which one you wish to attend.

4. In the UK, you drive on the left-hand side of the road, but in the US the applies.

5. The actor’s popularity has over the years. Everybody used to know him, but few people do now.

6. The software that I bought was not with Windows 8. It will only operate with earlier versions of Windows.

7. Building work in October last year. It should be finished by December of this year.

8. I gave an interview to the newspaper but they everything I said. The message that comes across is completely different to what I meant.

9. He has always enjoyed helping people. He his life to helping several charities.

10. They closed ward 9 in the hospital. Someone had a contagious disease and they wanted to it to that part of the hospital so it would not spread.

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Academic Word List Exercises Sublist 9b - Correct answers:

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