Pretest 7a. Academic Word List VII. adapt, advocate, comprehensive,
comprise, confirm, contrary, convert, differentiate, dispose, phenomenon,
extract, finite, hierarchy, innovate, prohibit, simulate, submit, successor,
thesis, ultimate
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After a long series of mistakes, the ______________ result was that
the project failed. a) adapt b) simulate c) comprehensive
d) ultimate e) phenomenon
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After moving to a new city, she had to _____________ to a new school,
and new ways of doing things. a) submit b) adapt
c) simulate d) innovate e) differentiate
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Your research paper should start with a ______________ that you will
set out to prove or disprove through your research. a) comprehensive
b) phenomenon c) successor d) hierarchy e) thesis
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The band was ______________(ed) of four members: bass, drums, and two
guitars. a) comprise b) differentiate c) advocate
d) comprehensive e) dispose
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Tomorrow we will have a _________________ exam that will test everything
we should have covered by now. a) comprise b) ultimate
c) comprehensive d) confirm e) finite
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There is only a ____________ amount of oil in the Earth; once it's gone,
it's gone... a) comprise b) ultimate c) comprehensive
d) confirm e) finite
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...and at the rate we are _____________(ing) it from the ground, that
won't be more than in about 100 years. a) prohibit b) extract
c) dispose d) convert e) innovate
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She wasn't sure of the social _________________ at her new school; she
could never remember which groups were supposedly cooler than others.
a) comprehensive b) differentiate c) successor d) hierarchy
e) phenomenon
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One of the reasons that you can't eat outside any more is that you seem
unable to _____________ of your trash properly. a) prohibit b)
extract c) dispose d) submit e) comprise
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The president nominates a person to the Supreme Court, but the Senate
has to _________ his choice. a) comprise b) contrary
c) comprehensive d) confirm e) submit
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Reports of UFOs were a very common _____________ in the 1950's.
a) adapt b) simulate c) comprehensive d) ultimate
e) phenomenon
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Everybody agreed that his __________(ive) plan was the simplest, and
yet the cleverest, of all. a) submit b) adapt c) simulate
d) innovate e) differentiate
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San Luis Obispo was one of the first cities in the country to _________
smoking indoors in bars and restaurants. a) prohibit b)
extract c) dispose d) submit e) contrary
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To __________ partial weightlessness, astronauts often train underwater.
a) prohibit b) extract c) dispose d) simulate e)
innovate
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The dying dictator has not yet named a ___________. Nobody is sure who
will rule after he is dead. a) comprehensive b) phenomenon
c) successor d) hierarchy e) thesis
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___________ to popular belief, dogs do not really have a consciousness,
and do not think as people do. Really, they don't. a) advocate
b) phenomenon c) dispose d) submit e) contrary
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I hope you know how to __________ a fraction into a decimal. Otherwise,
you won't pass this class. a) prohibit b) extract
c) dispose d) convert e) innovate
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If you are color blind, it usually doesn't mean that you see the world
in black and white. It just means that you can't __________ between some
colors, such as red and green. a) submit b) adapt
c) simulate d) innovate e) differentiate
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Please _________ your 600 words by the end of the period tomorrow.
a) comprise b) contrary c) comprehensive d) confirm
e) submit
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Your lawyer is supposed to act as your ______________ in the courtroom,
and plead your case. a) advocate b) phenomenon c)
successor d) submit e) contrary