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    This document provides a list of academic vocabulary words organized from basic to intermediate to advanced levels that could be used when discussing increases, decreases, or changes in rates or amounts. Some basic terms include "show", "increase", and "fall" while more advanced terms include "reveal", "exponentially", and "plunge". The document also provides examples of sentence structures for comparing amounts or rates at different time periods.

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    This document provides a list of academic vocabulary words organized from basic to intermediate to advanced levels that could be used when discussing increases, decreases, or changes in rates or amounts. Some basic terms include "show", "increase", and "fall" while more advanced terms include "reveal", "exponentially", and "plunge". The document also provides examples of sentence structures for comparing amounts or rates at different time periods.

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    This document provides a list of academic vocabulary words organized from basic to intermediate to advanced levels that could be used when discussing increases, decreases, or changes in rates or amounts. Some basic terms include "show", "increase", and "fall" while more advanced terms include "reveal", "exponentially", and "plunge". The document also provides examples of sentence structures for comparing amounts or rates at different time periods.

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    ACADEMIC VOCABULARY

    BASIC INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED


    Show (v) Reveal (v)
    Rise (v)
    Increase (v) Climb (v)
    Grow (v)
    Rise (n)
    Increase (n)
    Growth (n)
    Fall (v/n0
    Decrease (v /n) Decline (v/n)
    Drop (v/n)
    Rapid (adj)
    Considerable (adj)
    Sharp (adj) Dramatic (adj)
    Exponential (adj)
    Marked (adj)
    Rapidly (adv)
    Considerably (adv)
    Sharply (adv) Dramatically (adv)
    Exponentially (adv)
    Markedly (adv)
    Slide away
    Fall sharply Decrease dramatically
    Plundge (v)
    Gradual (adj) Steady (adj)
    Gradually (adv) Steadily (adv)
    Birth rate Fertility
    Approximately (adv)
    About (adv) Somewhere in the vicinity
    of
    Just (adv) Only (adv) A negligible/ a mere
    Popular (adj) Widely enjoyed
    *favourite (adj) Preferred (adj)
    Likewise (adv)
    Similarly (adv)
    However (adv) Yet (adv)
    In stark contrast,
    By contrast
    however..

     Significant structure:
    - In stark contrast
    - by far the most significant change to take place during this period was
    - at … percent compared to ….(number) percent
    Ex: at 26 percent compared to 21 percent a
    decade earlier.
    - Account for ….percent slip/go up to ….
    Ex: Eating out – which was the second most widely enjoyed pastime in 1985,
    accounting for 23 percent of respondents – slipped to a mere 8 percent in 1995

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