Academic Wordlist Sublist 3

when you depend on or trust in something or someone

The region's ______ on tourism is unwise. 

He's completely ______ on his wheelchair to get about. 

to need a particular thing or the help and support of someone or something in order to continue, to work correctly, or to succeed:

The success of this project ____ on everyone making an effort. 

to take something or someone away from somewhere, or off something.

The men came to ______ the rubbish from the backyard. 

a model or a diagram, an abstract, a concept of something

The scheme also includes detailed instructions on land ________. 

forming or following in a logical order

Many patients have prolonged survival with _______ therapies

a particular order in which related things follow each other

The flowers mature in ________, starting with the oldest at the top. 

For something (often abstract) to change or move

Public opinion had _______ sharply to the left following the war. 

a period of work time in a factory, hospital or other place where some people work during the day and some work at night

A 12-hour _______. 

to explain something in an exact and detailed way

To make a claim, you must ______ the date when the article was lost. 

as much as is needed, enough

There is now _______ evidence to prove this claim.
Three open sprinklers were found to be _______ to stop even the most rapidly developing fire. 

a piece of work that has to be done

Your first _____ will be to type these letters. 

having to do with the practical, industrial, or mechanical arts or the applied sciences

For _______ reasons the concert must be postponed. 

a practical method or art applied to some particular task.

She applied a new _______ of playing the guitar. Now, she is one of the most famous guitar players of the world. 

having legal force

Is this contract/ticket/agreement still ______?

the state, quality, or fact of being valid in law or in argument, proof, authority, etc

This research seems to give/lend some ______ to the theory that the drug might cause cancer. 

a single book that is part of a collection; also a bibliographic identifier for a sequence of periodicals.

The collected works of James Thurber, now numbering 25 ______ represent a high standard of literary excellence, as every schoolboy knows. 

a quantity, bulk, mass, or amount

The San Diego freeway in California has the heaviest ______ of traffic in the world. 

a large quantity

Using the server to generate large ______ of email from a database is an example of an activity that is not allowed. 

the degree, strength, or loudness of sound

How do I adjust the ______ of the audio? 

that you can use or do instead of sth else

The motorway was closed so we had to find an ______route.

Different to what is usual or traditional

_______ medicine 

the facts and events that affect what happens in a particular situation

Police said there were no suspicious ________ surrounding the boy's death.

the amount of money that you have

The company has promised to repay the money when its financial _______ improve. 

as the result of a particular situation

It's not an ideal solution, but it's the best we can do in the ________.

never; not for any reason

Under _________ should you enter my office. 

to say what you think or feel about sth

Several people ______ on how ill David looked. Page 2/19 www.sprachenzentrum.uzh.ch 

something that you say or write that gives your opinion or feeling about sth 

The chancellor was not available for ______.

a spoken description on the radio or television of sth as it is happening

A football ______ does not require an extensive vocabulary range 

give (someone) something, typically money, in recognition of loss, suffering, or injury incurred; recompense 

The government should _______ the farmers for the loss of their crop due to the unseasonal rains

reduce or counteract (something unwelcome or unpleasant) by exerting an opposite force or effect

His occasional courtesies did not _______ for his general rudeness. 

part, element, constituent of something 

The bacteria excrete cellulose, the basic _______ of our forests. 

agreement, assent 

Even the rare free vote requires the ______ of the party in power. 

An opinion held by all or most, general agreement 

We have been trying very hard to forge a _______ that no nuclear weapons should be allowed on the Korean Peninsula. 

rather large or great in size, distance, extent; worthy of respect, attention

We took a ______ length of time to decide. 

not changing, remaining the same; going on all the time, continual, persistent

In other words, if an ideal gas is compressed and kept at _____ temperature, the work done in compressing it is completely converted into heat and transferred to the surrounding heat sink. 

forced

The evidence was so compelling that he felt ______ to accept it.

to restrict or limit sb/sth

Research has been ______ by a lack of funds.

strict control over the way that you behave or are allowed to behave

At last we could relax and talk without _______.