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Academic Word List | Word List Parts | Part 1, The Most Common Words

The Academic Word List, developed by Averil Coxhead at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. It contains 570 word families that frequently appear in academic, scientific and educational texts. If you know these words and the 2,000 most frequently used words in English, you will understand 90% of the words in academic texts.

 

   access: (accessed, accesses, accessibility, accessible, accessing, inaccessible)

   adequate: (adequacy, adequately, inadequacies, inadequacy, inadequate, inadequately)

   achieve: (achievable, achieved, achievement, achievements, achieves, achieving)

   acquire: (acquired, acquires, acquiring, acquisition, acquisitions)

   administrate: (administrates, administration, administrations, administrative, administratively, administrator)

   affect: (affected, affecting, affective, affectively, affects, unaffected)

   analyse: (analysed, analyser, analysers, analyses, analysing, analysis)

   approach: (approachable, approached, approaches, approaching, unapproachable)

   appropriate: (appropriacy, appropriately, appropriateness, inappropriacy, inappropriate, inappropriately)

   area: (areas)

   aspect: (aspects)

   assess: (assessable, assessed, assesses, assessing, assessment, assessments)

   assist: (assistance, assistant, assistants, assisted, assisting, assists)

   assume: (assumed, assumes, assuming, assumption, assumptions)

   authority: (authoritative, authorities)

   available: (availability, unavailable)

   benefit: (beneficial, beneficiaries, beneficiary, benefited, benefiting, benefits)

   category: (categories, categorisation, categorise, categorised, categorises, categorising)

   chapter: (chapters)

   commission: (commissioned, commissioner, commissioners, commissioning, commissions)

   community: (communities)

   complex: (complexities, complexity)

   compute: (computable, computation, computational, computations, computed, computer)

   concept: (conception, concepts, conceptual, conceptualisation, conceptualise, conceptualised)

   conclude: (concluded, concludes, concluding, conclusion, conclusions, conclusive)

   conduct: (conducted, conducting, conducts)

   consequent: (consequence, consequences, consequently)

   consist: (consisted, consistency, consistent, consistently, consisting, consists)

   constitute: (constituencies, constituency, constituent, constituents, constituted, constitutes)

   construct: (constructed, constructing, construction, constructions, constructive, constructs)

   consume: (consumed, consumer, consumers, consumes, consuming, consumption)

   context: (contexts, contextual, contextualise, contextualised, contextualising, contextualize)

   contract: (contracted, contracting, contractor, contractors, contracts)

   create: (created, creates, creating, creation, creations, creative)

   credit: (credited, crediting, creditor, creditors, credits)

   culture: (cultural, culturally, cultured, cultures, uncultured)

   data: ( )

   define: (definable, defined, defines, defining, definition, definitions)

   derive: (derivation, derivations, derivative, derivatives, derived, derives)

   design: (designed, designer, designers, designing, designs)

   distinct: (distinction, distinctions, distinctive, distinctively, distinctly, indistinct)

   distribute: (distributed, distributing, distribution, distributional, distributions, distributive)

   economy: (economic, economical, economically, economics, economies, economist)

   element: (elements)

   environment: (environmental, environmentalist, environmentalists, environmentally, environments)

   equate: (equated, equates, equating, equation, equations)

   establish: (disestablish, disestablished, disestablishes, disestablishing, disestablishment, established)

   estimate: (estimated, estimates, estimating, estimation, estimations, over-estimate)

   evaluate: (evaluated, evaluates, evaluating, evaluation, evaluations, evaluative)

   evident: (evidence, evidenced, evidential, evidently)

   export: (exported, exporter, exporters, exporting, exports)

   factor: (factored, factoring, factors)

   feature: (featured, features, featuring)

   final: (finalise, finalised, finalises, finalising, finality, finalize)

   finance: (financed, finances, financial, financially, financier, financiers)

   focus: (focused, focuses, focusing, focussed, focussing, refocus)

   formula: (formulae, formulas, formulate, formulated, formulating, formulation)

   function: (functional, functionally, functioned, functioning, functions)

   identify: (identifiable, identification, identified, identifies, identifying, identities)

   impact: (impacted, impacting, impacts)

   income: (incomes)

   indicate: (indicated, indicates, indicating, indication, indications, indicative)

   individual: (individualised, individualism, individualist, individualistic, individualists, individuality)

   injure: (injured, injures, injuries, injuring, injury, uninjured)

   institute: (instituted, institutes, instituting, institution, institutional, institutionalise)

   interpret: (interpretation, interpretations, interpretative, interpreted, interpreting, interpretive)

   invest: (invested, investing, investment, investments, investor, investors)

   involve: (involved, involvement, involves, involving, uninvolved)

   issue: (issued, issues, issuing)

   item: (itemisation, itemise, itemised, itemises, itemising, items)

   journal: (journals)

   labour: (labor, labored, labors, laboured, labouring, labours)

   legal: (illegal, illegality, illegally, legality, legally)

   legislate: (legislated, legislates, legislating, legislation, legislative, legislator)

   maintain: (maintained, maintaining, maintains, maintenance)

   major: (majorities, majority)

   method: (methodical, methodological, methodologies, methodology, methods)

   normal: (abnormal, abnormally, normalisation, normalise, normalised, normalises)

   obtain: (obtainable, obtained, obtaining, obtains, unobtainable)

   occur: (occurred, occurrence, occurrences, occurring, occurs, reoccur)

   participate: (participant, participants, participated, participates, participating, participation)

   percent: (percentage, percentages)

   period: (periodic, periodical, periodically, periodicals, periods)

   policy: (policies)

   principle: (principled, principles, unprincipled)

   proceed: (procedural, procedure, procedures, proceeded, proceeding, proceedings)

   process: (processed, processes, processing)

   require: (required, requirement, requirements, requires, requiring)

   research: (researched, researcher, researchers, researches, researching)

   respond: (responded, respondent, respondents, responding, responds, response)

   role: (roles)

   section: (sectioned, sectioning, sections)

   sector: (sectors)

   significant: (insignificant, insignificantly, significance, significantly, signified, signifies)

   similar: (dissimilar, similarities, similarity, similarly)

   source: (sourced, sources, sourcing)

   specific: (specifically, specification, specifications, specificity, specifics)

   structure: (restructure, restructured, restructures, restructuring, structural, structurally)

   theory: (theoretical, theoretically, theories, theorist, theorists)

   vary: (invariable, invariably, variability, variable, variables, variably)

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