Advanced Vocabulary Exercise #20

Both "condition" and "factor" mean a thing that helps achieve something.

Both "benchmarks" and "criteria" mean standards for judging something.

Both "range" and "scope" refer to how much something can change or cover.

Both "transform" and "process" mean to change.

Both "yield" and "output" refer to what is produced.

Both "draw" and "derive" mean to get something from a source.

Scholarships are highly limited in number. To make sure scholarships are given to the right people, selection panels generally choose applicants based on a list of standards, or criteria. Other than academic success, volunteer work and the personal letter are common criteria.

To use resources wisely, police officers usually look for obvious clues around the crime scene and question a limited number of witnesses in the first round of investigation. In case that they find very few clues, they then expand their range, or scope of investigation. They do so by going to places farther away from the crime and bringing in more people for questioning.

To make sure food does not go bad easily, food manufacturers usually add chemicals into their products. However, it comes with a downside, which is your health. If you eat too much processed food, which is not naturally produced, you put your health at risk.

If a factory can make more products within the same time frame, it can probably make more profit. To do that, factories regularly update their equipment. In the context of the sentence, the factory's production, or output, after getting new machines has gone up.

Practice makes perfect. If you want to be good at an instrument, you need to practice for a long time every day. Is it going to be tough? Maybe. It depends on whether you also get satisfaction out of practising (= derive satisfaction from practising).

Many health conditions come from what you eat. A bad eating habit is widely known as a factor that puts your health at risk, or a risk factor for health.