literacy, Developing countries are prompting reading from a young age to improve ___ . (= the ability to read and write)., exerting, Environmental groups are ___ pressure on the government to pass a bill on carbon dioxide emissions. (= to use pressure/influence to make sth happen), forecast, Experts ___ that the economy would grow this year (= to predict sth), benchmark, His architectural design set the ___ for his colleagues to follow. (= sth used as a standard to compare other things with), insidious, It’s an ___ disease which causes a great deal of discomfort after a few years. (= of a disease, problem, etc.: spreading gradually and causing harm without being noticed), convoked, Management has ___ a meeting to discuss the company’s economic outlook for the coming quarter. (= to call a group of people together in order to be present at a meeting), social marker, Owing a car was a ___ of the upper class back in the 1920s. (= a distinctive feature of a social class), invasive, Patients are unconscious during any ___ medical procedure. (= involving cutting into sb’s body), spurted, Profits at the company ___ very rapidly during the boom; almost doubling. (= to increase or grow rapidly), milieu, She is more at ease in her natural ___ of the arts than with her husband’s scientist friends. (= the people, place and attitudes associated with a specific social situation), provoked, She ___ and teased her brother making him upset and argumentative. (= to sb to become angry), renowned, The artist is most ___ for his landscape paintings, but he also paints portraits. (= well-known by many for sth good), ceased, The company ___ manufacturing while its factory was being rebuilt. (= to stop), invoked, The developer ___ his right to renovate his property in his legal dispute with the council. (= to resort to a law so as to accomplish sth against sb), subvert, The dissident was sentenced to jail for trying to ___ the authority of the government. (= to sabotage a government or other established authority), eradicate, The gardener tried to ___ all the weeds from his garden but they kept growing back. (= to get rid of sth entirely), prominent, The plight of immigrant workers is a ___ feature that appear in all his novels. (= dominant; distinguishable), evokes, This movie always ___ memories of the time I lived in Barcelona. (= to produce memories), sprouted, Thousands of mushrooms ___ in the garden overnight; there were none there the day before. (= to begin to exist unexpectedly in large numbers), prior to, Tours of the castle are only available ___ 2 o’clock in the afternoon. (= before sth).

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