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  • A test that can REVEAL a student’s skills and knowledge.
    to show or make known
  • Doctors worried that there would not be enough VACCINE for everyone who needed it.
    a substance which contains a weak form of the bacteria or virus that causes a disease and is used to protect people from that disease
  • My keys were here a minute ago but now they’ve VANISHed.
    to disappear suddenly, especially in a way that cannot be easily explained
  • During her REIGN, Elizabeth I was very successful as female ruler and policy maker.
    a period of time in which a person is a king/queen
  • The novel has PROVOKEd fierce debate in Turkey.
    to cause a reaction
  • Fish EVOLVEd from prehistoric sea creatures.
    if an animal or plant evolves, it changes gradually over a long period of time
  • She and her sister are always COMPETING for attention.( COMPETE)
    to try to be better than sth/sb else
  • The learning needs of the two groups are quite DISTINCT from each other. One group needs to improve their listening, while the other group should study more vocabulary.
    clearly different or belonging to a different type
  • He saw her and RETREATed, too shy to speak to her.
    to withdraw and not do sth
  • America wants to MAINTAIN its position as a world power.
    to keep
  • Conservationists are trying to save the whale from EXTINCTION.
    when a particular type of animal or plant stops existing
  • Poverty and poor housing CORRELATE with a shorter life expectancy.
    to show a relationship between, closely connected
  • DRASTIC changes are needed if environmental catastrophe is to be avoided.
    extreme or noticeable
  • They also suspect that the move against wolves is part of a wider campaign against PREDATORS.
    an animal that kills and eats other animals
  • Others think that iron was DEPOSITed onto the planet while it was still forming.
    to leave sth in a place
  • I don’t understand how the two ideas RELATE. They seem to be totaly different.
    if two things relate, they are connected in some way