1. Word of the Week appropriate 1. To set apart for a specific use: appropriating funds for education. 2. To take possession of or make use of exclusively for oneself, often without permission: Lee appropriated my unread newspaper and never returned it. [Middle English appropriat, from Late Latin appropritus, past participle of approprire, to make one's own : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin proprius, own; see per 1 in Indo-European roots.] Your challenge: Can you use this word in any of your lessons this week? All the words of the week come from Academic Word Lists. These lists are the most frequent words used in texts. If you know how to use these words you will improve your academic expression and ability to read complex texts.

2. Word of the Week Your challenge: Can you use this word in any of your lessons this week? All the words of the week come from Academic Word Lists. These lists are the most frequent words used in texts. If you know how to use these words you will improve your academic expression and ability to read complex texts. consequence 1. Something that logically or naturally follows from an action or condition. See Synonyms at effect. 2. The relation of a result to its cause. 3. A logical conclusion or inference. 4. Importance in rank or position: scientists of consequence. 5. Significance; importance: an issue of consequence. Synonyms: effect, importance.

3. Word of the Week Perceive (v) 1. To become aware of directly through any of the senses, especially sight or hearing. 2. To achieve understanding of; apprehend. [Middle English perceiven, from Old French perceivre, from Latin percipere : per-, per- + capere, to seize; see kap- in Indo-European roots.] Synonym :see Your challenge: Can you use this word in any of your lessons this week? All the words of the week come from Academic Word Lists. These lists are the most frequent words used in texts. If you know how to use these words you will improve your academic expression and ability to read complex texts.

4. Word of the Week resource 1. Something that can be used for support or help: The local library is a valuable resource. 2. An available supply that can be drawn on when needed. Often used in the plural. 3. The ability to deal with a difficult or troublesome situation effectively; initiative: a person of resource. 4. Means that can be used to cope with a difficult situation. Often used in the plural: needed all my intellectual resources for the exam. 5. a. resources The total means available for economic and political development, such as mineral wealth, labor force, and armaments. b. resources The total means available to a company for increasing production or profit, including plant, labor, and raw material; assets. Your challenge: Can you use this word in any of your lessons this week? All the words of the week come from Academic Word Lists. These lists are the most frequent words used in texts. If you know how to use these words you will improve your academic expression and ability to read complex texts.

5. Word of the Week conduct (v) 1. To direct the course of; manage or control. 2. To lead or guide. 3. Music To lead (an orchestra, for example). 4. To serve as a medium for conveying; transmit: Some metals conduct heat. 5. To comport (oneself) in a specified way: She conducted herself stoically in her time of grief. v.intr.1. To act as a conductor. 2. To lead. n.1. The way a person acts, especially from the standpoint of morality and ethics. 2. The act of directing or controlling; management. Synonyms: accompany, conduct, direct, manage, control, steer Your challenge: Can you use this word in any of your lessons this week? Word of the Week has a new focus and from now on, the words come from university Academic Word Lists. These lists are the most frequent words used in texts. If you know how to use these words you will improve your academic expression and ability to read complex texts.

6. Word of the Week potential (n) 1. Capable of being but not yet in existence; latent: a potential problem. 2. Having possibility, capability, or power. 3. Grammar Of, relating to, or being a verbal construction with auxiliaries such as may or can; for example, it may snow. n.1. The inherent ability or capacity for growth, development, or coming into being. 2. Something possessing the capacity for growth or development. 3. Grammar A potential verb form. 4. Physics The work required to move a unit of positive charge, a magnetic pole, or an amount of mass from a reference point to a designated point in a static electric, magnetic, or gravitational field; potential energy. Your challenge: Can you use this word in any of your lessons this week? All the words of the week come from Academic Word Lists. These lists are the most frequent words used in texts. If you know how to use these words you will improve your academic expression and ability to read complex texts.

7. Word of the Week survey 1. To examine or look at comprehensively. 2. To inspect carefully; scrutinize: "Two women were surveying the other people on the platform" 3. To determine the boundaries, area, or elevations of (land or structures on the earth's surface) by means of measuring angles and distances, using the techniques of geometry and trigonometry. 4. Chiefly British To inspect and determine the structural condition of (a building). 5. To conduct a statistical survey on. Your challenge: Can you use this word in any of your lessons this week? All the words of the week come from Academic Word Lists. These lists are the most frequent words used in texts. If you know how to use these words you will improve your academic expression and ability to read complex texts.