Academic Writing_ Academic words

The less formal equivalent of facilitate is....

• similarly

• reduce

• make easier

• illustrate

If you disseminate knowledge, you .....

• Answer all the questions addressed to you

• spread or give out something

• gain it

• forget all you knew

What is a formal alternative of the underlined word in a sentence:

"Notwithstanding some members' objections, I think we must go ahead with the plan."

• Also

• However

• Because of

• Despite

What word is missing?

"It's impossible to .............................. these results without knowing more about the research methods employed".

• evaluate

• omit

• enhance

• evoke

What are the synonyms of "evoke"?

• Draw out, get

• trigger, prompt,

• Help, make it easy

• Support, confirm,

If you mitigate something, you.....

• employ or utilize something

• add prove to an account or a piece of information

• make something less harmful, unpleasant, or bad

• make something worth

Discrepancy means...

• a difference between two things that should be the same

• a similarity between two things that should be the same

The synonyms of utilize are...

• support, confirm

• combine, blend

• worsen, get bad

• use, employ

Subsequently is a linking word and used instead of.....

• because of, due to

• And, also

• later, afterward

• hence, as a reason

What word is missing?

Poor health is accepted as an attribute of normal ageing. ........................., youth is depicted as a time of vitality and good health.

• Conversely

• Likewise,

• Invariably

• Furthermore