Academic Word List I

A recent ________ suggest that the country will experience 2% surge in economy within 10 years.

The __________ animal trade has been a significant factor in the decline of the wild orangutan population.

The __________ of avocados in local grocery stores depends on the growing season in California.

The icy roads were definitely a contributing __________ in the car accident.

Nelson Mandela once observed that only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into __________.

Immigrants often seek areas of their newly adopted country that are __________ in some way to their original homeland.

Health officials are __________ water samples to find out exactly what it is that has made over 20 people in the town sick in the last 2 weeks.

You have to _______________ the remark in the overall discussion to fully understand what was meant

Highly unequal income _______________ remains a serious problem in Brazil.

Earthquakes _______________ in the world about once every hour.