Academic Word List Exercises - Sublist 8a (Words 1-10)

Here we move on to practice exercises for the academic word list sublist 8a.

In the first exercise you check your knowledge of the words, and in the second exercise you practice usage of the words in a gap fill.

These are words 1 - 10 from sublist 8a.

Abandon
Accompany
Accumulate
Ambiguous
Append
Appreciate
Arbitrary
Automate
Bias
Chart

Exercise 1

Which of the above AWL words do you know? Match the definitions to the word:

1. expressing something that has more than one possible meaning, sometimes on purpose

2.  to go with someone to a particular place, often a social event

3. something happening through chance rather than reasoning or a plan

4. the act of favouring one particular side unfairly, based on personal opinion

5. a drawing used to show information in a simple way, usually with lines or curves showing amounts / a detailed map of an area of water

6. to add something to the end of a piece of writing or a document

7. to leave a person, place or thing, usually permanently / to stop doing an activity before it is finished

8. to make a process operate by computers or machines rather than humans in order to reduce time and cost

9. to be grateful for something someone has done for you

10. to collect a large number of things over a long period of time / to gradually increase in number or amount

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Academic Word List Sublist 8a - Correct answers:



Exercise 2

Choose which word will fit in the gap:

1. Moving house is going to be a nightmare! I’ve so many things over the last 15 years I don’t know what I am going to do with it all.

2. The people that were chosen by the company to go on the training seemed very . They should have picked people who had been employed the longest but it was completely random.

3. There were several footnotes to the article.

4. I asked my best friend to me to the theatre. I knew she would like the play and I don’t like to go alone.

5. Even though the IELTS teacher has told the student many times how to write about a bar , she still makes a lot of basic errors.

6. Jane was by her mother when she was a baby because she could not cope with caring for her.

7. I the fact that he came to see me when I was ill in hospital. Many other people I know did not come to visit.

8. The government’s response to the issue has been a bit . It is not really clear what they intend to do.

9. Since the car industry has become , thousands of jobs have been lost.

10. The newspapers in my country are very against left wing parties. They always have stories that support those on the right.

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Academic Word List Exercises Sublist 8a - Correct answers:



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