The "Academic Word List" is one of several vocabulary lists that does not connect directly with a single particular piece of literature. Instead, it includes ten units of sets of words most frequently found in school text books of all types. (If you're wondering where this word list came from, it was devloped by Averil Coxhead, of Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand.)
I'm going to post half of the first set of the word list. I'd like you to look over that list, pick a word, look it up in a dictionary, and then post the word & its meaning. Please choose a word that has not been picked already by another blogger. (HINT: If you do not have a dictionary, you can use an online one! Try this: http://www.merriam-webster.com)
This way, we all get to increase our vocabulary skills by working together! Be sure to check this post often, as new words and definitions will be added by the bloggers.
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analysis
approach
area
assessment
assume
authority
available
benefit
concept
consistent
constitutional
context
contract
create
data
definition
derived
distribution
economic
environment
established
estimate
evidence
export
factors
financial
formula
function
identified
income
10 comments:
Derived- 1)[Transitive and intransitive verb] to obtain something from a source, or come from a source
2) [Logic- transitive verb] to reach a conclusion about something by reasoning.
3) [Linguistics- intransitive verb] to develop from another word or a source word or term.
4) [Linguistics- transitive verb] form a word or term from another, or state that a word or term developed from another
create-
Transitive Verb:
1)To bring into existance to invest with a new
2)To invest with a new form, office, or rank
3)Cause, occasion
4)To produce through imaginative skill
Intransitive Verb:
1)To make or bring into existence something new
2)To set up a scoring opportunity in basketball
formula
1) a fixed form of words, esp.a conventional expression
2) a conventional rule for doing something
3) a prescription or recipe
4) fortified milk for a baby
5) a set of symbols expressing a mathematical rule, fact
Export
Transitive verb
1. To carry away : remove
2. To carry or send (as a commodity), to some other place (as another country)
Intransitive verb
1. To export something abroad
Geraldine G.
Concept
noun - a general notion or idea
adjective - conceptual
adverb - conceptually
Economic (adj)
Of or relating to the production, development, and management of material wealth, as a country, household, or business enterprise.
Indira H.
Assume ~
1 a: to take up or in : receive b: to take into partnership, employment, or use
2 a: to take to or upon oneself : undertake assume responsibility b: put on, don c: to place oneself in assume a position
3: seize, usurp assume control
4: to pretend to have or be : feign assumed an air of confidence in spite of her dismay
5: to take as granted or true : suppose I assume he'll be there
6: to take over (the debts of another) as one's own.
Alicia. T
estimate
1archaic a: esteem b: appraise
2 a: to judge tentatively or approximately the value, worth, or significance of b: to determine roughly the size, extent, or nature of c: to produce a statement of the approximate cost of
3: judge, conclude
Luz Croce
constitutional - of, relating to, or entering into the fundamental makeup of something : essential
Melissa Lobsinger
The word I picked is:
established
meaning to make firm such as adding a law.
First, I found out that there were two different types of established a noun and a verb. I chose the verb.
SHENEA WALKER
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