Vocabulary test unit 6

Fill in the gaps with the missing words:embrace, rational, obligations, commonsense, acknowledging Of course not all human behaviour is rational. In reality, human desicion-making involves a mixture of both rational and none rational behaviours. Many social scientists are coming around to acknowledging that desicions may be explained by emotions, habbits, social obligations, or other none-rational behaviours. Economics, in many ways, has yet to embrace this commonsense assumption. Fill in the gaps with the missing words:predators, migrations, beneficiaries, adaptability, deprived The Humboldt squid's metabolic adaptability may also make it one of the few beneficiaries of climte change. As more areas of the ocean become oxygen-deprived, traditional predators must migrate into waters that support their oxygen requirements, creating an ecological vacuum that the Humboldt squid can fill. Recent migrations of the Humboldt squid out of the Humboldt current into the Northeastern Pacific support this hypothesis. The company's financial problems were later..............by the unexpected loss of a major overseas client. soothed confounded compounded supplemented Bringing a home-cooked lunch to work has reduced my monthly spending on food by.............half. ultimately roughly superficially technically Negotiations between the union and city planners are..............., but there are indications that a compromise my be near. viable attainable unlikely ongoing It's true that we exceeded my original estimate for materials, but we reduced our original labor estimate to.............. compensate outweigh convince generate The effects of television on children's intelectual and social skills remain................even after 50 years of study. vulnerable ambivalent apprehensive debatable If the power goes out, the generators will turn on and.................power to the system. rebuild reinforce recover restore What drove the industrial revolution were profound social changes , as Europe moved from a..............agricultural to an urban economy. primarily particularly respectively strategically The fundamental goal of brainstorming is to..................ideas. convince cause generate urge Prolonged exposure to the chemical may cause toxins to...............in the liver, potentially causing it to fail. acquire stimulate accumulate incorporate Several recent studies support our conclusions, though it should be..............that these studies, at present, are strictly theoritical. written off backed up pointed out broken down Match the words to their synonyms: exacerbate compound attain acquire endless perpetual impervious impenetrable concurrently simultaneously stationary sedentary unwilling reluctant inherent intrinsic feasible viable prevalent pervasive