• The exercises below are intended to help students learn the words from the first four sublists of the AWL
• Choose the correct form of the word to complete the passage
  
• The gaps are all words from the AWL sublists 1-5; the words in blue bold are also from the AWL
  
• These exercises focus on the correct form of the given word.

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We have been studying the theme of friendship but what exactly is friendship? How can it be definition / defined / definitions? There are various definition / definitions / defined available and this short text synthesizes a few of them. This material was found through a simple search on cn.bing.com (a reasonable search engine whilst Google remains blocked in China).

Friendship is studied in numerous academic / academically / academy fields, such as anthropology, psychologist / psychological / psychology and sociology. It refers to the the state of being friends and the emotions or conduct between friends. It is a relationship of mutual affection between people that is a significantly / significant / insignificant stronger form of interpersonal bond than a mere association. It is a distinctively personal relationship that is grounded in a concern on the part of each friend for the welfare of the other. That is to say, friends care about each other for both their own and for the other’s sake. Each party in a friendship wants to engage with the other, which means that they have a mutual interest in each other’s experiences and thoughts.

The concept / conceptual / conceptualise of friendship is also used at the level of international relations where it refers to a state of mutual trust and support between allied nations.

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