Specialist Academic Vocabulary, Set 3 (C1–C2)

The ___ of the regulatory framework prevented companies from adapting to rapidly changing market conditions.

Policy planners must consider multiple ___ before committing to a single course of action.

The ___ shape of the Earth causes complications in flat-map projections used for navigation.

The report was accompanied by a ___ document containing the full statistical tables and raw data.

The pharmaceutical company ___ up with a university research group to develop the vaccine.

The road will be ___ closed to allow essential maintenance work to be carried out overnight.

The announcement of the redundancies ___ a formal grievance process that lasted several months.

The architect was described as a ___ designer whose concepts were decades ahead of contemporary practice.

In formal logic, the ___ of a symbol is its literal referent, as opposed to its connotation.

The research team was housed in laboratories ___ to the main hospital building.

The ___ of delegates from twenty-three nations passed a resolution condemning the use of chemical weapons.

The expedition team used ___ shelters that could be packed into a single bag.

It is now virtually ___ that a Western democracy could survive without a free press.

The defence lawyer argued ___ that the evidence had been misinterpreted by the prosecution.

Few researchers had previously ___ data sets of this complexity and volume.