Advanced Vocabulary Exercise #17

Both "initial" and "preliminary" mean beginning or early.

Both "values" and "ethics" mean principles that explain a person's behaviour.

Both "unavoidable" and "inevitable" mean not able to be stopped from happening.

Both "through" and "via" mean moving in one side and getting out of the other side.

Both "basics" and "foundation" mean the essential things.

Both "escort" and "accompany" mean to go somewhere with someone.

"Foundations of our society" refers to the governing principles of the society in which we live. Harmony ensures peace and love gives us strength. With its love for profit, capitalism, however, is making us forget those principles, or foundations.

Using experimental drugs on humans can easily result in deaths. Instead of putting humans at risk, scientists use animals. However, in the 21st century, people have begun to question if it is ethical, or morally correct.

Trips can be quite dangerous, especially with a large group of young students. Therefore, it is often required that schools at least assign two teachers to be with, or to accompany, each class.

A big competition or contest often involves several rounds. In each round, some competitors or contestants are eliminated according to performance. In the conversation, the daughter only passed the first, or preliminary, round. In other words, she was eliminated in the second round and therefore did not win.

Nonstop flights (from Point A to Point B without stopping) are more expensive than connecting flights, which require passengers to leave the first plane and board another at a layover stop. In the sentence, the speaker went home from New York. We don't know where his or her home is, but we know it is not a Japanese city. The reason is that the speaker went through, or via, Japan, where took the second plane home.

The company in question must have treated its staff pretty badly. That employees would decide to leave was not to be prevented, or inevitable.