Sublist8Exercises

1)Collocations.Readthesesentencesandchoosethemostsuitablepreposition.

a) Thediseaseisaccompaniedwith/by/fromahightemperature.
b) Ithelpschildrendevelopanappreciationof/for/inpoetryanddrama.
c) Wemustbehaveinconformityof/to/withlocalcustoms.
d) Theremustbenodeviationfrom/in/tothenormalprocedure.
e) Thefilmindustrythrivesontheexploitationto/of/inwomen.
f) Thefluctuationof/on/ininterestratesisveryworrying.

2)Choosethecorrectpartofspeechofthewordinbrackets,addingaffixesifnecessary,tocompletethefollowing
sentences.

a) Weexpectedacompletely_______________responsefromthegovernment,butthisresponseisvery
confusing.
AMBIGUITY
b) Couldyouhelpme_______________oneortwopoints?
CLARITY
c) Thedecisionwill_______________leadtopoliticaltensions.
INEVITABILITY
d) The_______________costsofincreasingsuperannuationmustbeconsidered.
PROSPECT
e) Thepressconferencehadtobe_______________untilJuly29thduetoaclashofdates.
SCHEDULE
f) Forecastsfortheeconomicarebeing_______________downwards.
REVISION

3)Choosewordsfromtheboxtocompletethetext.Youmayhavetochangethepartofspeech.

currency

tensions

widespread

commodity

fluctuate

dramatic

inevitable

Economicconditionscontinuetobeof_____________concerntomanyanalystsaroundtheworld,whocannot
seeanyimprovements,particularlyinthe___________market.Thedollarhasbeenunstableforseveralweeks.
___________inthetroubledMiddleEastarecausingthehighprices,particularlyin_____________suchasoil,
aspokesmansaidtoday,andthisiswhywehaveseenthe_____________ofrecentweeks.The_____________
increaseinthepriceofabarrelofoilishavingaknockoneffectaroundtheworld.Transportprovidershaveto
paymoreforpetrolandthiswill_____________affectcustomers,shesaid.

SublistEightthislistofwordscontainstheeighthmostfrequentwordsintheAcademiccorpus

abandon

deviation

plus

accompanied

displacement

practitioners

accumulation

dramatic

predominantly

ambiguous

eventually

prospect

appendix

exhibit

radical

appreciation

exploitation

random

arbitrary

fluctuations

reinforced

automatically

guidelines

restore

bias

highlighted

revision

chart

implicit

schedule

clarity

induced

tension

conformity

inevitably

termination

commodity

infrastructure

theme

complement

inspection

thereby

contemporary

intensity

uniform

contradiction

manipulation

vehicle

crucial

minimised

via

currency

nuclear

virtually

denote

offset

widespread

detected

paragraph

visual

VocabularyANSWERSbasedonSublistEightoftheAcademicWordList

1)Collocations.Readthesesentencesandchoosethemostsuitablepreposition.

a) Thediseaseisaccompaniedwith/by/fromahightemperature.
b) Ithelpschildrendevelopanappreciationof/for/inpoetryanddrama.

c) Wemustbehaveinconformityof/to/withlocalcustoms.

d) Theremustbenodeviationfrom/in/tothenormalprocedure.
e) Thefilmindustrythrivesontheexploitationto/of/inwomen.
f) Thefluctuationof/on/ininterestratesisveryworrying.

2)Choosethecorrectpartofspeechofthewordinbrackets,addingaffixesifnecessary,tocompletethefollowing
sentences.

a) Weexpectedacompletelyunambiguousresponsefromthegovernment,butthisresponseisvery
confusing.
AMBIGUITY
b) Couldyouhelpmeclarifyoneortwopoints?
CLARITY
c) Thedecisionwillinevitablyleadtopoliticaltensions.
INEVITABILITY
d) Theprospectivecostsofincreasingsuperannuationmustbeconsidered.
PROSPECT
e) ThepressconferencehadtoberescheduleduntilJuly29thduetoaclashofdates.
SCHEDULE
f) Forecastsfortheeconomicarebeingreviseddownwards.
REVISION

3)Choosewordsfromtheboxtocompletethetext.Youmayhavetochangethepartofspeech.

currency

tensions

widespread

commodity

fluctuate

dramatic

inevitable

Economicconditionscontinuetobeofwidespreadconcerntomanyanalysts,whocannotseeanyimprovements,
particularlyinthecurrencymarket.Thedollarhasseenbeenunstableforseveralweeks.TensionsintheMiddle
Eastarecausingthehighprices,particularlyincommoditiessuchasoil,aspokesmansaidtoday,andthisiswhy
wehaveseenthefluctuationsofrecentweeks.Thedramaticincreaseinthepriceofabarrelofoilishavinga
knockoneffectaroundtheworld.Transportprovidershavetopaymoreforpetrolandthiswillinevitablyaffect
customers,shesaid.