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Academy: An official organization that encourages the development of literature, art, science. College where students are taught a particular skill. (Military academy, dance academy) Adjust: To gradually become familiar with a new situation. To change or move something slightly to improve it or make it more suitable for a particular purpose. Alter: To change something. Amend: To correct or make small changes to something written or spoken. Aware: Having or showing realization, perception, or knowledge about something. Capacity: The amount of space a container has to hold something. Someone’s ability to do something. Challenge: Something that tests strength, skill or ability. When someone refuses to accept that something is right or legal. When someone tries to win something. Clause: A part of a written law or legal document covering a particular subject of the whole law. A group of words that contains subject and verb but which is only part of a sentence. Compound: A substance containing atoms from two or more elements. A combination of two or more parts. To make a difficult situation worse by adding more problems. Conflict: A state of disagreement or argument between people, groups or countries.

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Academy: An official organization that encourages the development of literature, art, science. College where students are taught a particular skill. (Military academy, dance academy)

Adjust: To gradually become familiar with a new situation.To change or move something slightly to improve it or make it more suitable for a particular purpose.

Alter: To change something.

Amend: To correct or make small changes to something written or spoken.

Aware: Having or showing realization, perception, or knowledge about something.

Capacity: The amount of space a container has to hold something.Someone’s ability to do something.

Challenge:Something that tests strength, skill or ability.When someone refuses to accept that something is right or legal.When someone tries to win something.

Clause: A part of a written law or legal document covering a particular subject of the whole law.A group of words that contains subject and verb but which is only part of a sentence.

Compound: A substance containing atoms from two or more elements.A combination of two or more parts.To make a difficult situation worse by adding more problems. Conflict: A state of disagreement or argument between people, groups or countries.

Contact: Communication with other person. Keep in contact.

Decline: A decrease in the quality, quantity, importance. Say no.Discrete: Clearly separate.

Draft: Piece of writing, when people join to the army.

Enable: To make possible for someone to do something.

Energy: Physical and mental strength.

Enforce: To make people obey a rule, force someone to do something.

Entity: Something that exists as a complete unit.

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Equivalent: Having the same value, purpose.

Evolve

Expand: To become larger in size, volume.

Expose: To show something that is usually covered or hidden. Expose to something dangerous, to tell the truth.

External: Outside part. Foreign, independent.

Facilitate: To make it easier.

Fundamental: Most basic and important part.

Generate: To produce or cause something.

Generation: All people about the same age.

Image:Public opinion, idea in mind, picture, what you see.Liberal

Margin: Margin of errorMedical: MentalModifyMonitorNetwork:Notion: Idea, belief or opinion.Objective: Something that you’re trying to achieve.Prime: Most important, the best quality.PsychologyPursueRatio: Relationship between two amounts.RejectRevenueStable: StyleSubstituteSustain: make something continueSymbolTargetTransitTrend: TendencyVersion Welfare: help benefit Whereas

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AtheismDormant: temporarily devoid of external activity. Asleep, inactive.Emulate: imitateEngrossing: taking up the attention completely.Expounded: to defend with argument. Explain.Feigned: fictitious, not genuine or real.Inevitable: Quota: Proportional part of share.RehabilitationRiffling: Riveted: to secure with a rivetVistas: