AWL 1. Words 11-20

a written legal agreement between two people or businesses that says what each must do for the other or give to the other

facts or information used for making calculations or decisions: can be followed by a plural verb in scientific English, in which case the singular is datum

if several people or things constitute something, they combine to form it

the general situation in which something happens, which helps to explain it

to have something as the most important aspect or the only aspect

to make something new or original that did not exist before

the system by which a country’s trade, industry, and money are organized

to receive or obtain something from something else

to describe clearly and exactly what something is

to give something such as food, clothes, or money to a group of people, especially so that each person gets an equal share