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Today’s words are from sublist 4 of the Academic Word List.

When you learn new vocab, make sure that you note collocations too. For this group of words some collocations are:
investigation of, to investigate something, investigative reporting, job satisfaction, to label something, a mechanism for, a mechanism to

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Complete the sentences below with the correct form of the word.

ACADEMIC ENGLISH 43

1. The department decided to handle the matter ______________ rather than escalate it to the next level.(internal)
2. She’s an_______________ reporter for CNN. (investigate)
3. Her _______________ has many great benefits.(job)
4. Children need to have their clothes and belongings _______________so that they don’t get lost at school. (label)
5. How do I know when I’ve used all of my phone credit? What’s the _______________ for informing me? (mechanism)

Answers (in the wrong order below)
5. mechanism    3. job     2. investigative reporter    1. internally    4. labelled