AWL Practice Exercises
Sublist 1f: Words 51-60
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 51 - 60 from sublist 1 :
Role
Section
Sector
Significant
Similar
Source
Specific
Structure
Theory
Vary
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. Salary scales
choose one
role
section
sector
significant
similar
source
specific
structure
theory
vary
between states. They are never the same.
2. Experts are trying to track down the
choose one
role
section
sector
significant
similar
source
specific
structure
theory
vary
of the contamination in the water supply. At the moment they are not sure where it has come from.
3. Does the restaurant have a non-smoking
choose one
role
section
sector
significant
similar
source
specific
structure
theory
vary
.
4. Schools play an important
choose one
role
section
sector
significant
similar
source
specific
structure
theory
vary
in society.
5. There has been a
choose one
role
section
sector
significant
similar
source
specific
structure
theory
vary
increase in the number of female students in recent years.
6. The grammatical
choose one
role
section
sector
significant
similar
source
specific
structure
theory
vary
of his sentences is very good.
7. The virus attacks
choose one
role
section
sector
significant
similar
source
specific
structure
theory
vary
cells in the brain.
8. The new government's policy is to reduce the role of the public
choose one
role
section
sector
significant
similar
source
specific
structure
theory
vary
. Private business will now play a much more important role.
9. I bought some new shoes which are very
choose one
role
section
sector
significant
similar
source
specific
structure
theory
vary
to a pair I had before.
10. He has a
choose one
role
section
sector
significant
similar
source
specific
structure
theory
vary
that the hole was caused by a meteorite.
Score =
Academic Word List Exercises 2 - Correct answers:
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