Rosetta Stone's Essential Academic Vocabulary: Lesson 19

These essential, high-frequency words will put you on the path to vocabulary success. Simply start a practice session, and you'll be on your way to stronger reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills!

Explore the complete collection of Rosetta Stone's Academic Vocabulary lists.
10 words 371 learners

Learn words with Flashcards and other activities

Definition First
Print Flashcards

Other learning activities

Answer a few questions about each word. Use this to prep for your next quiz! Compete with other teams in real time to see who answers the most questions correctly! Test your spelling acumen. Read the definition, listen to the word and try spelling it!

Teaching tools

Create and assign quizzes to your students to test their vocabulary. Assign learning activities including Practice, Vocabulary Jams and Spelling Bees to your students, and monitor their progress in real-time.

Full list of words from this list:

words only definitions & notes
  1. contribute
    give, provide, or supply something
    Remember that science never actually “proves” anything; it merely contributes to a growing body of evidence about the way our world works. The Thing About Jellyfish
  2. convey
    serve as a means for expressing something
    The weirdest part is I think I sort of understand the message he’s trying to convey. Boy21
  3. eliminate
    end, take out, or do away with
    Employers were eliminating jobs no longer needed now that the war was over. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
  4. intention
    a wish or design that you plan to carry out
    So he took a bus to Istanbul, telling his mother that his intention was to become a doctor. Zeitoun
  5. observe
    make mention of
    “Looks like they put in new windows,” my mom observes. The Fourteenth Goldfish
  6. opposite
    moving or facing away from each other
    Christina and Uriah sit close enough for their shoulders to touch, but they are looking in opposite directions, more like strangers than friends. Allegiant
  7. role
    the actions and activities assigned to a person or group
    Although she was a pilot, her role on this spaceflight was as a researcher. Women in Space
  8. shift
    change in quality
    In time, some of that anger began to fade, or rather, to shift. How Dare the Sun Rise
  9. substitute
    put in the place of another
    “A cipher,” he underlined the word, “is when you substitute individual letters with other letters, numbers, or symbols.” Book Scavenger
  10. typical
    exhibiting the qualities that identify a group or kind
    He wore the typical junior engineer’s uniform: a canvas shirt with baggy khaki pants tucked into brown leather miner’s boots. October Sky
Created on Wed Aug 18 15:26:01 EDT 2021 (updated Fri Aug 20 15:39:56 EDT 2021)

Sign up now (it’s free!)

Whether you’re a teacher or a learner, Vocabulary.com can put you or your class on the path to systematic vocabulary improvement.