1.ACADEMIC STUDY AND CAMPUS LIFE VOCABULARY
 

Complete the sentences with words and expressions from the box.
 

a, The professor uses a … to give the class an overview of the entire course.

b, She had the freedom to take three … courses last term.

c, Students can … the test if they want a better grade.

d, The organization is offering five $5,000 … .

e, The students were given a homework … which was impossible to do.

f, She's planning to give a series of … on modern art.

g, We had a party to celebrate her … from high school.


 

2.VERBS ASSOCIATED WITH CHANGE

• abandon (If you abandon an activity or piece of work, you stop doing it before it is finished.)

The scheme's investors, fearful of bankruptcy, decided to abandon the project.

• adjust (When you adjust to a new situation, you get used to it by changing your behaviour or your ideas.)

We are preparing our fighters to adjust themselves to civil society.

• alter (If something alters or if you alter it, it changes.)

Little had altered in the village.

• decline (If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.)

The number of staff has declined from 217,000 to 114,000.

• develop (When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.)

It’s hard to say at this stage how the market will develop.

• diminish (When something diminishes, or when something diminishes it, it becomes reduced in size, importance, or intensity.)

The threat of nuclear war has diminished.

• evolve (If something evolves or you evolve it, it gradually develops over a period of time into something different and usually more advanced.)

This is a tiny airline which eventually evolved into Pakistan International Airlines.

• modify (If you modify something, you change it slightly, usually in order to improve it.)

The club members did agree to modify their recruitment policy.

• refine (If something such as a process, theory, or machine is refined, it is improved by having small changes made to it.)

Surgical techniques are constantly being refined.

• shift (If someone's opinion, a situation, or a policy shifts or is shifted, it changes slightly.)

The emphasis should be shifted more towards Parliament.

• transform (To transform something or someone means to change them completely and suddenly so that they are much better or more attractive.)

The spread of the Internet and mobile telephony have transformed society.

• vary (To vary is to change, to cause something to change or to differ in some way from something or someone else.)

Even at the same place thunderstorms vary greatly in intensity and duration.

Words expressing similarity and difference
 

Words describing cause and effect