ACTIVITY 9 Academic Words

1) Adjustment
A small alteration or movement made to achieve a desired fit, appearance, or
result.
2) Administration
The process or activity of running a business, organization, etc.
3) Adults
A person who is fully grown or developed.
4) Advocate
A person who publicly supports or recommends a particular cause or policy.
5) Affect
Touch the feelings of (someone); move emotionally.
6) Aggregate
A whole formed by combining several (typically disparate) elements.
7) Aid
Help, typically of a practical nature.
8) Allocation
The action or process of allocating or distributing something.

9) Alternative
Relating to behavior that is considered unconventional and is often seen as a
challenge to traditional norms.
10) Ambiguous
open to more than one interpretation; having a double meaning.
11) Behalf
In the interests of a person, group, or principle.
12) Benefit an advantage or profit gained from something.
13) Bias
Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with
another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
14) Bond
A thing used to tie something or to fasten things together.
15) Brief
Concise in expression; using few words.
16) Bulk
The mass or magnitude of something large.
17) Capable
Having the ability, fitness, or quality necessary to do or achieve a specified
thing.
18) Capacity
The maximum amount that something can contain.
19) Categories
A class or division of people or things regarded as having particular shared
characteristics.
20) Ceases
bring or come to an end.
21) Challenge
A call to take part in a contest or competition,especially a duel.
22) Channel
A length of water wider than a strait, joining two larger areas of water, especially
two seas.
23) Chapter
A main division of a book, typically with a number or title.
24) Chart
Of great significance or value; likely to have a profound effect on success,
survival, or well-being.
25) Chemical
Relating to chemistry, or the interactions of substances as studied in chemistry.

26) Circumstances
A fact or condition connected with or relevant to an event or action.

27) Display
make a prominent exhibition of (something) in a place where it can be easily seen.

28) disposal
29) distinction
30) distortion
31) distribution
32) diversity
33) document
34) domain
35) domestic
36) dominant
37) draft
38) dramatic
39) duration
40) dynamic
41) negative
42) network
43) neutral
44) nevertheless
45) nonetheless
46) normal
47) norms
48) notion
49) notwithstanding
50) nuclear