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Zorluk: OrtaWords in Context: High-Utility Vocabulary

Which word most logically and precisely completes the blank in the passage?

Cevap:Urban planners are increasingly incorporating green roofs—roofs covered with vegetation—into city designs. By absorbing rainwater and reducing surface temperatures, these green roofs help to 【mitigate】 the urban heat island effect, thereby making cities more liveable during hot summer months.

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The blank should be filled with a word meaning to make less severe, reduce, or lessen, such as 'mitigate' or 'alleviate'.
The correct words (such as 'mitigate', 'alleviate', or 'reduce') mean to make something less intense, severe, or harmful. In this context, the positive actions of green roofs—absorbing rainwater and lowering surface temperatures—serve to weaken the negative consequences of the urban heat island effect, helping to make city living more tolerable.

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1
Analyze the context surrounding the blank in the passage.
The passage describes green roofs performing positive environmental actions: absorbing rainwater and reducing surface temperatures.
This establishes the causal mechanism through which green roofs affect the urban environment.
2
Identify the relationship between green roofs and the 'urban heat island effect'.
Because green roofs lower temperatures and make cities more liveable, their effect must be to weaken or decrease the negative impacts of the urban heat island effect.
The concluding phrase 'thereby making cities more liveable' signals a reduction of a harmful phenomenon.
3
Select a high-utility academic word that means to make less severe or to diminish.
Words like 'mitigate', 'alleviate', 'reduce', or 'counteract' fit the context precisely.
These verbs are semantically accurate and grammatically appropriate to complete the infinitive construction 'help to [verb]'.

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