Top Class Words Part I

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Top Class Words Part I

• Introducing 30 of the 60 Most Used
• Academic Vocabulary
• www2.gsu.edu/eslhpb/aegweb/exercises/x1/x1-A/voca
  bulary_sixty.html

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General Approaches to Vocabulary Expansion

• Read Widely
• Use Words You Already Know
• Look for Millionaire Words to Replace
  Chump-Change Words

The movie was very good.
The movie was thrilling and inspiring.
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Analysis, Approach, and Area

• 1 Write an analysis at least one paragraph in
  length.
• 2 This new approach is called multiculturalism.
• 3 This formula gives the area of a circle of
  radius r.... Research in this Research in this
  area is progressing rapidly

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Assess, Assume, and Authority

• 4. Some facts would support such an assessment. 
• 5. Assume that one semester's tuition costs 1000
  and that you make a single payment at the start
  of the term.
• 6. He denied the authority of civil government to
  regulate religious behaviors.

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Available, Benefit, Concept

• 7 The balance in the supplies account, before
  adjustment, represents the amount of supplies
  available. 
• 8 I think we should give people we disagree with
  the benefit of the doubt.
• 9 Piaget's concept of egocentrism is important in
  child psychology

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Consistent, Constitutional, Context

• 10 This is consistent with the facts that are
  known about his life.
• 11 Federalism - the constitutional division of
  powers between the national government and the
  states - is central to the workings of American
  government.
• 12 Genes exert their effects in an environmental
  context. 

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Contract, Create, Data

• 13 He signed a contract.
• 14 Humans manipulate and create language.
• 15 This illustration describes the data for each
  experiment.

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Definition, Derived, Distribution

• 16 By definition, the amount of an asset that has
  expired is expense. 
• 17 Morphine is a painkilling drug derived from
  the opium plant.
• 18 Political practice has altered the
  distribution of power.

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Economic, Environment, Established

• 19 In schools students learn to support their
  nation's economic and political system.
• 20 The government acts to protect the
  environment. 
• 21 The Dutch East India Company established
  outposts in Africa and a flourishing sugar
  industry in Brazil.

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Estimate, Evidence, Export

• 22 Executives estimate that the company has
  earned three-fourths of the total fee during the
  current year
• 23 Core values are evident in most everyday
  activities, serving both to direct and bind 
  together members of a society. 
• 24 Both Japan and now also Korea export lots of
  cars to the U.S.

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Factors, Finance, Formula

• 25 Factors such as flat retail sales, low
  consumer confidence levels, and conservative
  buying contributed to a drop in the company's
  gross margin.
• 26 Government regulates a wide range of human
  activity, including agriculture, transportation,
  finance, product safety, labor-relations, and the
  workplace. 
• 27 The technique shown can be used to develop a
  general formula for finding the distance between
  two points in a plane. 

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Functions, Identified, Income

• 28 Ethnocentrism functions to enhance morale and
  solidarity among members of a society. 
• 29 Sociologists have identified a hidden
  curriculum in our schools. 
• 30 Accounting has concepts and principles to
  guide the measurement  of business income.

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Approaches to Vocabulary Expansion

• Build Words with a Vocabulary Plan
• Would You Like to See the Rest of the Top 60
  Academic Vocabulary?