Academic Word List: Group 5

a thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person

• monitor

• challenge

• medical  

Answer explanation

- monitor: electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions

- challenge: a call to engage in a contest or fight

make more intense, stronger, or more marked

• modify

• conflict  

• compound  

Answer explanation

- modify: add a modifier to a constituent

- conflict: go against, as of rules and laws

a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests

• decline  

• conflict  

• energy  

Answer explanation

- decline: a downward slope or bend

- energy: forceful exertion

render visible, as by means of MRI

• facilitate  

• expose  

• image  

Answer explanation

- facilitate: be of use

- expose: disclose to view as by removing a cover

compel to behave in a certain way

• substitute  

• expose  

• enforce  

Answer explanation

- substitute: put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items

- expose: to show, make visible or apparent

authorize officially

• facilitate  

• network  

• licence  

Answer explanation

- facilitate: be of use

- network: communicate with and within a group

a vague idea in which some confidence is placed

• energy  

• notion  

• draft  

Answer explanation

- energy: forceful exertion

- draft: a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle)

used of the first or originating agent

• aware  

• stable  

• prime  

Answer explanation

-  aware: (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception

- stable: not taking part readily in chemical change

of or relating to the chin- or liplike structure in insects and certain mollusks

• external  

• mental  

• objective  

Answer explanation

- external: coming from the outside

- objective: undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena

an ironclad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac

• monitor  

• substitute  

• decline  

Answer explanation

- substitute: an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced

- decline: a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state