AWL Practice Exercises
Sublist 1b: Words 11-20
These pages provide you with practice with the academic word list - the most common words found in academic texts.
This will help you with your reading, writing, speaking, and listening. These are words 11 - 20 from sublist 1 .
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Exercise 1
Which of the above AWL words do you know? Match the definitions to the word:
Exercise 2
Choose which word will fit in the gap:
1. The
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was/were collected by various researchers.
2. The institute
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most of its money from foreign investments. It gets only a small amount from domestic investments.
3. Women
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about 10% of Parliament. Men make up the remaining 90%.
4. Tourism contributes millions of pounds to the country's
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It has helped prevent the country from going into recession.
5 . In this dictionary 'reality' is
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as 'the state of things as they are, rather than as they are imagined to be'.
6. They could take legal action against you if you break (the terms of) the
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7. Certain chemicals have been banned because of their damaging effect on the
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8. The Bible says that God
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the world.
9. It is important to see all the fighting and bloodshed in his plays in historical
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10 . The books will be
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free to local schools. They are given out for free because schools do not have much money to spend.
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Academic Word List Exercises 2 - Correct answers:
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