Academic Word List Set 2

Academic Word List 2 – Hover Over the Words to See Definitions

Accommodate To provide with something needed; to adapt or adjust. , Accumulate To gather or acquire an increasing number of something. , Acknowledge To accept or admit the existence or truth of something. , Allocate To distribute resources or duties for a particular purpose. , Approximate Close to the actual, but not completely accurate or exact. , Attribute To regard something as being caused by someone or something. , Capable Having the ability, fitness, or quality necessary to do something. , Civil Relating to ordinary citizens and their concerns, distinct from military. , Communicate To share or exchange information, news, or ideas. , Compile To collect information from different sources and put it together. , Concentrate To focus one’s attention or mental effort on a particular object or activity. , Contrast The state of being strikingly different from something else. , Cycle A series of events that are regularly repeated in the same order. , Deduce To arrive at a conclusion by reasoning. , Demonstrate To clearly show the existence or truth of something by giving proof. , Derive To obtain something from a specified source. , Emphasis Special importance, value, or prominence given to something. , Ensure To make certain that something happens. , Exclude To deny someone access to or bar them from a place, group, or privilege. , Framework A structure for supporting or enclosing something; a system of ideas. .