ACADEMIC WORD LIST

1. ACADEMIC WORD LIST circumstance, coordinate, ensure

2. Circumstance (n/.v) Pronunciation: CIRcumstance • Definitions: • (n).1. A condition or fact attending an event and having some bearing on it; a determining or modifying factor. • 2. A condition or fact that determines or must be considered in the determining of a course of action. • 3. The sum of determining factors beyond wilful control. Often used in the plural: a victim of circumstance • 4. circumstances Financial status or means: • 5. Detail accompanying or surrounding an event, as in a narrative or series of events. • 6. Formal display; ceremony: the pomp and circumstance of a coronation. • 7. A particular incident or occurrence tr.v . To place in particular circumstances or conditions; situate.

3. Idioms: under no circumstances In no case; never. under/inthe circumstances Given these conditions; such being the case Synonyms: at occurrence surroundings, context, environment location, contingency, dependence (uncertainty); causation Antonyms: decision, decree, plan Word family words: cir·cum·stanced(v), cir·cum·stanc·ing(v), cir·cum·stanc·es (n) Sentences: - Work that will begin on Monday if circumstances permit. -“Prior came of a good family, much reduced in circumstances" (George Sherburn). -Your arrival was a fortunate circumstance.

4. Coordinate(n/adj/v) Pronunciation: coordinate • Definitions: noun.1. One that is equal in importance, rank, or degree. • 2. coordinates A set of articles, as of clothing or luggage, designed to match or complement one other, as in style or color. • 3. Mathematics Any of a set of two or more numbers used to determine the position of a point, line, curve, or plane in a space of a given dimension with respect to a system of lines or other fixed references. • 4. Of or relating to a university in which men and women are taught by the same faculty but in single-sex classes or on single-sex campuses. • 5. coordinatesInformal Directions: Give me some coordinates so I can find my way. adj. (-t, -t) 1. Of equal importance, rank, or degree: coordinate offices of a business. • 2. Of or involving coordination. • 3. Of or based on a system of coordinates. • 4. Grammar Having equal syntactic status: coordinate phrases. • v. (-t) co·or·di·nat·ed, co·or·di·nat·ing, co·or·di·nates • v.tr.1. To place in the same order, class, or rank. • 2. To harmonize in a common action or effort: coordinating the moving parts of a machine; coordinate the colors of a design. v.intr.1. To be coordinate: The generators coordinate so that one is always running. • 2. To work together harmoniously: a nursing staff that coordinates smoothly. • 3. To form a pleasing combination; match: shoes that coordinate with the rest of the outfit. • 4. Grammar To link (syntactically equivalent units) together

5. Synonyms: like, parallel, same Antonyms: different, dissimilar, unequal, unparallel Word family words: co·ordi·nate·ly (-t-l) adv. co·ordi·nate·ness (-t-ns) n. co·ordi·native adj. co·ordi·nator n. Sentences: -The stakes also can be frighteningly high, as when emergency workers can't coordinate a disaster response effort. -These marine mammalscoordinate their fishing efforts with local people. -The speed of the alleged waves iscoordinate dependent.

6. Ensure() Pronunciation: ensure Definitions:vb(tr) • 1.(may take a clause as object) to make certain or sure; guarantee • 2. to make safe or secure; protect Synonyms: guarantee, secure, make sure, confirm, warrant, certify protect, defend, safeguard, guard, make safe Antonyms: ignore, break, renege, neglect Word family words:ensurer (n) ensured, ensures, ensuring Sentences: • This victory will ensure his happiness. • Our precautions ensured our safety.