Academic Word List
Sublist 1 Group 6:
varies
context
authority
labor
export
requires
income
significant
percentage
distribute
varies – (v) to change or be different according to the situation (syn: changes)
Your heart rate varies between resting and exercising.
context – (n) the situation in which something happens and that helps you to understand it (syn: circumstance)
You can sometimes understand the meaning of a word by using context clues from your book.
authority – (n) either the power to give orders to people or the person who has the power to give orders to people (syn: boss)
Your parents are in authority over you.
labor – (v) to work hard (syn: work)
A construction worker labors all day long.
(n) hard physical work (syn: hard work)
The labor was too hard for the grandma.
export – (v) to sell and send goods to another country
(syn: sell overseas)
The United States exports food to India.
(n) a product that is sold to another country
Grain is a huge export of the United States.
requires – (v) to need something; or to make somebody do or have something, especially because it is necessary according to a particular law or set of rules (syn: need)
All children in America ages 5 to 16 are required to go to school.
income – (n) the money that a person, a region, a country, etc. earns from work, from investing money, from business, etc (syn: salary)
Your parents earn an income from their jobs that helps your family buy food, shelter, and clothing.
significant – (n) large or important enough to have an effect or to be noticed (syn: important or main)
A significant number of teenagers play video games.
percentage – the number, amount, rate of something, expressed as if it is part of a total which is 100; a part or share of a whole (fraction of 100)
Ten of 100 is 10 percentage points.
distribute - to spread something, or different parts of something, over an area or to various people (syn: give out)
Please distribute the test to each of the students.