Test of Academic Vocabulary (Nation, 2001)

Snea Thinsan, adapted from Nation, I.S.P. (2001). Learning Vocabulary in Another Language. Cambridge:CUP

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  1. "Written agreement"

    2. Your answer:
    area
    evidence
    role
    definition
    method
    contract

  2. "Way of doing something"

    3. Your answer:
    definition
    method
    area
    contract
    evidence
    role

  3. "Reasons for believing something is or is not true"

    4. Your answer:
    role
    contract
    area
    definition
    evidence
    method

  4. "Safety"

    5. Your answer:
    security
    institute
    construction
    feature
    region
    impact

  5. "Noticeable part of something"

    6. Your answer:
    construction
    institute
    impact
    region
    security
    feature

  6. "Organization which has a special purpose"

    7. Your answer:
    impact
    institute
    region
    construction
    security
    feature

  7. "Plan"

    8. Your answer:
    option
    exposure
    integration
    debate
    stability
    scheme

  8. "Choice"

    9. Your answer:
    debate
    exposure
    scheme
    integration
    option
    stability

  9. "Joining something into a whole"

    10. Your answer:
    stability
    debate
    exposure
    integration
    option
    scheme

  10. "Male or female"

    11. Your answer:
    implementation
    access
    psychology
    license
    gender
    orientation

  11. "Study of the mind"

    12. Your answer:
    psychology
    license
    gender
    orientation
    access
    implementation

  12. "Entrance or way in"

    13. Your answer:
    license
    orientation
    gender
    psychology
    access
    implementation

  13. "Collecting things over time"

    14. Your answer:
    motivation
    phenomenon
    edition
    guarantee
    accumulation
    media

  14. "Promise to repair a broken product"

    15. Your answer:
    guarantee
    media
    motivation
    phenomenon
    accumulation
    edition

  15. "Feeling a strong reason or need to do something"

    16. Your answer:
    phenomenon
    accumulation
    edition
    guarantee
    media
    motivation

  16. "End"

    17. Your answer:
    exploitation
    adult
    termination
    schedule
    infrastructure
    vehicle

  17. "Machine used to move people or goods"

    18. Your answer:
    adult
    exploitation
    infrastructure
    schedule
    termination
    vehicle

  18. "List of things to do at certain times"

    19. Your answer:
    schedule
    termination
    vehicle
    infrastructure
    adult
    exploitation

  19. "Change"

    20. Your answer:
    alter
    coincide
    specify
    deny
    devote
    release

  20. "Say something is not true"

    21. Your answer:
    alter
    coincide
    deny
    devote
    release
    specify

  21. "Describe clearly and exactly"

    22. Your answer:
    deny
    specify
    coincide
    release
    devote
    alter

  22. "Keep out"

    23. Your answer:
    survive
    indicate
    exclude
    facilitate
    design
    convert

  23. "Stay alive"

    24. Your answer:
    exclude
    facilitate
    design
    convert
    indicate
    survive

  24. "Change from one thing into another"

    25. Your answer:
    indicate
    survive
    convert
    design
    exclude
    facilitate

  25. "Make smaller"

    26. Your answer:
    estimate
    mediate
    identify
    bond
    channel
    minimize

  26. "Guess the number or size of something"

    27. Your answer:
    minimize
    mediate
    identify
    bond
    channel
    estimate

  27. "Recognizing and naming a person or thing"

    28. Your answer:
    channel
    mediate
    bond
    minimize
    estimate
    identify

  28. "Last"

    29. Your answer:
    professional
    explicit
    rigid
    final
    sole
    negative

  29. "Stiff"

    30. Your answer:
    explicit
    final
    negative
    rigid
    sole
    professional

  30. "Meaning 'no' or 'not'"

    31. Your answer:
    explicit
    sole
    professional
    final
    rigid
    negative

  31. "Happening after

    32. Your answer:
    reluctant
    subsequent
    analogous
    potential
    objective
    predominant

  32. "Most important"

    33. Your answer:
    objective
    reluctant
    potential
    analogous
    subsequent
    predominant

  33. "Not influenced by personal opinions"

    34. Your answer:
    analogous
    subsequent
    predominant
    objective
    potential
    reluctant

  34. "Next to"

    35. Your answer:
    supplementary
    adjacent
    controversial
    global
    neutral
    abstract

  35. "Added to"

    36. Your answer:
    controversial
    global
    neutral
    supplementary
    adjacent
    abstract

  36. "Concerning the whole world"

    37. Your answer:
    abstract
    controversial
    global
    neutral
    adjacent
    supplementary

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