Word List
Year 11 Vocabulary List
Year 11 brings denser texts, more independent thinking, and stronger expectations around interpretation and evidence. This list supports the language students need to discuss complex ideas with confidence.
Good for
Year 11 students, teachers, and families preparing for senior secondary reading and writing demands.
Focus
Abstract concepts, evaluative language, academic reasoning, and disciplined critical vocabulary.
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absolution
noun
Meaning
Formal release from guilt or punishment.
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002
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academic
noun
Meaning
(usually capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
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003
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access
noun
Meaning
A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.
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004
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acculturation
noun
Meaning
The process of adopting the culture of another group.
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005
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acknowledged
verb
Meaning
To admit the knowledge of; to recognise as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in
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006
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acrimoniousness
noun
Meaning
The quality of being bitter and spiteful in manner.
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007
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adequate
verb
Meaning
To equalize; to make adequate.
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008
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adjustment
noun
Meaning
The action of adjusting something
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009
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agglomerate
verb
Meaning
To collect or form into a mass.
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010
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aggregate
noun
Meaning
A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.
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011
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agonistic
adjective
Meaning
Relating to conflict and opposition; combative.
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012
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allegiant
adjective
Meaning
Loyal and faithful.
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013
Word
allocation
noun
Meaning
The process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.
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014
Word
alter
verb
Meaning
To change the form or structure of.
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015
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ambiguousness
noun
Meaning
The state of having more than one possible meaning.
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016
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amenable
adjective
Meaning
Open and responsive to suggestion; cooperative.
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017
Word
amendment
noun
Meaning
An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
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018
Word
amoral
adjective
Meaning
Lacking a moral sense; not concerned with right or wrong.
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019
Word
amplify
verb
Meaning
To increase the strength, extent, or detail of something.
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020
Word
anarchism
noun
Meaning
The political belief that society should have no government.
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021
Word
annual
noun
Meaning
An annual publication; a book, periodical, journal, report, comic book, yearbook, etc., which is published serially once a year, which may or may not be in addition to regular weekly or monthly publication.
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022
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apparent
adjective
Meaning
Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye, eyely; within sight or view.
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023
Word
approximate
verb
Meaning
To estimate.
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024
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ardency
noun
Meaning
Intense enthusiasm or passion.
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025
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aristocratic
adjective
Meaning
Relating to the nobility or upper class.
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026
Word
arrogance
noun
Meaning
An exaggerated sense of one's own importance.
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027
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asseverate
verb
Meaning
To declare something solemnly.
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028
Word
assigned
verb
Meaning
To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
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029
Word
assuage
verb
Meaning
To make an unpleasant feeling less intense; to soothe.
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030
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atomisation
noun
Meaning
The process of dividing something into very small parts.
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031
Word
attached
verb
Meaning
To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
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032
Word
attitudes
noun
Meaning
The position of the body or way of carrying oneself.
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033
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attitudinal
adjective
Meaning
Relating to a person's attitude or disposition.
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034
Word
attributed
verb
Meaning
To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.
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035
Word
autarky
noun
Meaning
Economic self-sufficiency; independence from trade.
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036
Word
autocracy
noun
Meaning
A system of government by one person with absolute power.
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037
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aware
adjective
Meaning
Vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.
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038
Word
binary
adjective
Meaning
Consisting of or involving two things.
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039
Word
bond
noun
Meaning
Evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate. The rights of the holder are specified in the bond indenture, which contains the legal terms and conditions under which the bond was issued. Bonds are available in two forms: registered bonds, and bearer bonds.
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040
Word
bourgeoisie
noun
Meaning
The middle class, particularly in its materialistic tendencies.
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041
Word
brief
noun
Meaning
A writ summoning one to answer to any action.
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042
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bureaucracy
noun
Meaning
A system of government with complex procedures and rules.
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043
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capable
adjective
Meaning
Able and efficient; having the ability needed for a specific task; having the disposition to do something; permitting or being susceptible to something.
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044
Word
caricaturist
noun
Meaning
One who creates exaggerated portrayals to satirise.
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045
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cathartic
adjective
Meaning
Providing psychological relief through release of emotion.
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046
Word
channel
noun
Meaning
The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
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047
Word
chauvinism
noun
Meaning
Excessive belief in the superiority of one's own group.
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048
Word
chemical
noun
Meaning
Any specific chemical element or chemical compound or alloy.
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049
Word
cited
verb
Meaning
To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
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050
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civil
adjective
Meaning
Having to do with people and government office as opposed to the military or religion.
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051
Word
classical
noun
Meaning
One that is classical in some way; for example, a classical economist.
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052
Word
code
noun
Meaning
A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
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053
Word
commiseration
noun
Meaning
Sympathy and sorrow expressed for someone in misfortune.
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054
Word
commitment
noun
Meaning
The act or an instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust, especially:
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055
Word
commonwealth
noun
Meaning
An independent country or community; a group of states.
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056
Word
communication
noun
Meaning
The act or fact of communicating anything; transmission.
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057
Word
complaisant
adjective
Meaning
Willing to please others; agreeable.
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058
Word
compounds
noun
Meaning
An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined
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059
Word
concentration
noun
Meaning
The act, process or ability of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated.
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060
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conciliation
noun
Meaning
The act of settling a dispute or gaining goodwill.
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061
Word
conference
noun
Meaning
The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views.
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062
Word
confirmed
verb
Meaning
To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.
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063
Word
confiscation
noun
Meaning
The act of officially taking possession of something.
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064
Word
conflagration
noun
Meaning
An extensive and destructive fire.
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065
Word
conjuration
noun
Meaning
The act of making something appear by magic.
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066
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consanguinity
noun
Meaning
Relationship by blood; being related by common ancestry.
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067
Word
consonance
noun
Meaning
Agreement or compatibility; repetition of similar consonants.
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068
Word
consternation
noun
Meaning
A feeling of anxiety or dismay.
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069
Word
consultation
noun
Meaning
The act of consulting.
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070
Word
contact
noun
Meaning
The act of touching physically; being in close association.
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071
Word
contemptibility
noun
Meaning
The quality of deserving scorn or disrespect.
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072
Word
conundrum
noun
Meaning
A difficult problem with no easy solution.
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073
Word
cooperative
noun
Meaning
A type of company that is owned partially or wholly by its employees, customers or tenants.
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074
Word
cosmopolitan
adjective
Meaning
Familiar with and at ease in many cultures.
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075
Word
countervailing
adjective
Meaning
Opposing with equal force.
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076
Word
credulity
noun
Meaning
A tendency to be too ready to believe things.
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077
Word
cycle
noun
Meaning
An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
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078
Word
decline
noun
Meaning
Downward movement, fall.
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079
Word
definite
noun
Meaning
(grammar) A word or phrase that designates a specified or identified person or entity.
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080
Word
deny
verb
Meaning
To disallow or reject.
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081
Word
despite
noun
Meaning
Disdain, contemptuous feelings, hatred.
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082
Word
dimensions
noun
Meaning
A single aspect of a given thing.
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083
Word
discretion
noun
Meaning
The quality of being discreet or circumspect.
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084
Word
display
noun
Meaning
A show or spectacle.
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085
Word
disposal
noun
Meaning
An arrangement, categorization or classification of things.
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086
Word
diversity
noun
Meaning
The quality of being diverse or different; difference or unlikeness.
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087
Word
domain
noun
Meaning
A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization.
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088
Word
domestic
noun
Meaning
A house servant; a maid; a household worker.
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089
Word
edition
noun
Meaning
A written work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner.
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090
Word
enable
verb
Meaning
To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.
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091
Word
enforcement
noun
Meaning
The act of enforcing; compulsion.
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092
Word
enhanced
verb
Meaning
To lift, raise up.
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093
Word
entities
noun
Meaning
That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form.
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094
Word
equipment
noun
Meaning
The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
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095
Word
equivalent
noun
Meaning
Anything that is virtually equal to something else, or has the same value, force, etc.
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096
Word
error
noun
Meaning
The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
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097
Word
estate
noun
Meaning
The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person.
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098
Word
ethnic
noun
Meaning
An ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.
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099
Word
evolution
noun
Meaning
A change of position.
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100
Word
exceed
verb
Meaning
To be larger, greater than (something).
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101
Word
expansion
noun
Meaning
The act or process of expanding.
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102
Word
expert
noun
Meaning
A person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject.
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103
Word
exposure
noun
Meaning
The condition of being exposed, uncovered, or unprotected.
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104
Word
external
noun
Meaning
(chiefly in the plural) The exterior; outward features or appearances.
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105
Word
federal
noun
Meaning
A law-enforcement official of the FBI; a federal agent.
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106
Word
fees
noun
Meaning
(feudal law) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief.
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107
Word
file
noun
Meaning
A collection of papers collated and archived together.
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108
Word
finite
adjective
Meaning
Having an end or limit; (of a quantity) constrained by bounds; (of a set) whose number of elements is a natural number.
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109
Word
flexibility
noun
Meaning
The quality of being flexible; suppleness; pliability.
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110
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gender
noun
Meaning
Class; kind.
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111
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generated
verb
Meaning
To bring into being; give rise to.
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112
Word
grade
noun
Meaning
A rating.
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113
Word
granted
verb
Meaning
(ditransitive) to give (permission or wish)
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114
Word
identical
noun
Meaning
(usually pluralized) Something which has exactly the same properties as something else.
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115
Word
ignored
verb
Meaning
To deliberately not listen or pay attention to.
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116
Word
image
noun
Meaning
An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
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117
Word
implications
noun
Meaning
The act of implicating.
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118
Word
imposed
verb
Meaning
To establish or apply by authority.
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119
Word
incentive
noun
Meaning
Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages.
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120
Word
incidence
noun
Meaning
The act of something happening; occurrence.
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121
Word
incorporated
verb
Meaning
To include (something) as a part.
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122
Word
inhibition
noun
Meaning
The act of inhibiting.
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123
Word
initiatives
noun
Meaning
A beginning; a first move.
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124
Word
input
noun
Meaning
The act or process of putting in; infusion.
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125
Word
instructions
noun
Meaning
The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge.
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126
Word
integration
noun
Meaning
The act or process of making whole or entire.
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127
Word
intelligence
noun
Meaning
Capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to comprehend and learn.
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128
Word
interval
noun
Meaning
A distance in space.
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129
Word
intervention
noun
Meaning
The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
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130
Word
investigation
noun
Meaning
The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research, especially patient or thorough inquiry or examination
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131
Word
job
noun
Meaning
A task.
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132
Word
label
noun
Meaning
A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
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133
Word
lecture
noun
Meaning
A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
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134
Word
liberal
noun
Meaning
One with liberal views, supporting individual liberty (see Wikipedia's article on Liberalism).
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135
Word
licence
noun
Meaning
A legal document giving official permission to do something; a permit.
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136
Word
logic
noun
Meaning
A method of human thought that involves thinking in a linear, step-by-step manner about how a problem can be solved. Logic is the basis of many principles including the scientific method.
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137
Word
marginal
noun
Meaning
Something that is marginal.
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138
Word
mechanism
noun
Meaning
(within a machine or machinery) Any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power.
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139
Word
medical
noun
Meaning
A medical examination.
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140
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mental
adjective
Meaning
Of or relating to the mind or an intellectual process.
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141
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minimum
noun
Meaning
The lowest limit.
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142
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ministry
noun
Meaning
Government department, at the administrative level normally headed by a minister (or equivalent rank, e.g. secretary of state), who holds it as portfolio, especially in a constitutional monarchy, but also as a polity
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143
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modified
noun
Meaning
Any vehicle used in modified racing.
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144
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monitoring
verb
Meaning
To watch over; to guard.
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motivation
noun
Meaning
Willingness of action especially in behaviour.
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146
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network
noun
Meaning
A fabric or structure of fibrous elements attached to each other at regular intervals.
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147
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neutral
noun
Meaning
A nonaligned state, or a member of such a state.
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148
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notion
noun
Meaning
Mental apprehension of whatever may be known, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.
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149
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obvious
adjective
Meaning
Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.
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150
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option
noun
Meaning
One of a set of choices that can be made.
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151
Word
orientation
noun
Meaning
The determination of the relative position of something or someone.
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152
Word
output
noun
Meaning
Production; quantity produced, created, or completed.
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153
Word
overseas
adjective
Meaning
Abroad.
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154
Word
paralepsis
noun
Meaning
A rhetorical device of drawing attention to something by claiming to omit it.
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155
Word
parameters
noun
Meaning
A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
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156
Word
paronomasia
noun
Meaning
A play on words; punning.
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157
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peroration
noun
Meaning
The concluding part of a speech that summarises the main points.
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158
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perspicuity
noun
Meaning
The quality of being clear and easily understood.
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159
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phase
noun
Meaning
an academic term used in formal writing and discussion
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160
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picaresque
adjective
Meaning
Relating to episodic fiction about a rogue or low-born character.
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161
Word
platitude
noun
Meaning
A trite or unoriginal statement presented as though profound.
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162
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plutocracy
noun
Meaning
Government or control by the wealthy.
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163
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positivism
noun
Meaning
A philosophical theory holding that knowledge derives from observed facts.
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164
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preceding
verb
Meaning
To go before, go in front of.
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165
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precept
noun
Meaning
A general rule intended to regulate behaviour or thought.
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166
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precise
verb
Meaning
(NNES or European Union documents) To make or render precise; to specify.
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167
Word
predicted
verb
Meaning
To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge and reasoning; to prophesy a future event on the basis of mystical knowledge or power.
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168
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presumption
noun
Meaning
The act of presuming, or something presumed
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169
Word
prime
noun
Meaning
The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
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170
Word
principal
noun
Meaning
The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
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171
Word
prior
noun
Meaning
A high-ranking member of a monastery, usually lower in rank than an abbot.
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172
Word
probity
noun
Meaning
The quality of having strong moral principles; complete honesty.
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173
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professional
noun
Meaning
A person who belongs to a profession
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174
Word
promote
verb
Meaning
To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
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175
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psychology
noun
Meaning
The study of the human mind.
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176
Word
publication
noun
Meaning
The act of publishing printed or other matter.
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177
Word
pursue
verb
Meaning
To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase.
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178
Word
ratio
noun
Meaning
A number representing a comparison between two named things.
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179
Word
recovery
noun
Meaning
The act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost.
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180
Word
rejected
verb
Meaning
To refuse to accept.
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181
Word
release
noun
Meaning
The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).
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182
Word
revealed
verb
Meaning
To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.
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183
Word
revenue
noun
Meaning
The income returned by an investment.
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184
Word
scope
noun
Meaning
The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain.
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185
Word
series
noun
Meaning
A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.
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186
Word
solely
adverb
Meaning
Alone; exclusively.
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187
Word
speculative
adjective
Meaning
Characterized by speculation; based on guessing, unfounded opinions, or extrapolation.
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188
Word
stability
noun
Meaning
The condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change.
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189
Word
statistics
noun
Meaning
A mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation.
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190
Word
status
noun
Meaning
A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
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191
Word
stress
noun
Meaning
(Cause of) discomfort.
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192
Word
styles
noun
Meaning
Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.
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193
Word
submitted
verb
Meaning
To yield or give way to another.
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194
Word
subsidiary
noun
Meaning
A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company.
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195
Word
substitution
noun
Meaning
The act of substituting or the state of being substituted.
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196
Word
sum
noun
Meaning
A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
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197
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sustainable
adjective
Meaning
Able to be sustained.
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198
Word
symbolic
adjective
Meaning
Pertaining to a symbol.
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199
Word
tapes
noun
Meaning
Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
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200
Word
target
noun
Meaning
A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
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201
Word
theoretical
adjective
Meaning
Of or relating to theory; abstract; not empirical.
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202
Word
trace
noun
Meaning
An act of tracing.
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203
Word
trend
noun
Meaning
An inclination in a particular direction.
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204
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underlying
verb
Meaning
To lie in a position directly beneath.
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205
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undertaken
verb
Meaning
To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).
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206
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utility
noun
Meaning
The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
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207
Word
version
noun
Meaning
A specific form or variation of something.
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208
Word
voluntary
noun
Meaning
A short piece of music, often having improvisation, played on a solo instrument.
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209
Word
welfare
noun
Meaning
Health, safety, happiness and prosperity; well-being in any respect.
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whereas
noun
Meaning
A clause, as in legal documents, stating whereas.
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