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Word list

 

Read or download the Sublists 3 & 4 from the Academic Word List. If you are unsure of the meaning of any of the words, look them up in a dictionary and find examples of how they can be used in academic writing.

Different activities focus on:

  • word meaning
  • grammatical word form
  • collocation (words that typically pair with the target word)
  • spelling

Most common form

Other words in the family

alternative

alternatively, alternatives

circumstances

circumstance

comments

comment, commentaries, commentary, commentator, commentators, commented, commenting

compensation

compensate, compensated, compensates, compensating, compensations, compensatory

components

component, componentry

consent

consensus, consented, consenting, consents

considerable

considerably

constant

constancy, constantly, constants, inconstancy, inconstantly

constraints

constrain, constrained, constraining, constrains, constraint, unconstrained

contribution

contribute, contributed, contributes, contributing, contributions, contributor, contributors

convention

convene, convenes, convened, convening, conventional, conventionally, conventions, unconventional

coordination

coordinate, coordinated, coordinates, coordinating, coordinator, coordinators,

co-ordinate, co-ordinated, co-ordinates, co-ordinating, co-ordination, co-ordinator, co-ordinators

core

cores, coring, cored

corporate

corporates, corporation, corporations

corresponding

correspond, corresponded, correspondence, correspondingly, corresponds

criteria

criterion

deduction

deduce, deduced, deduces, deducing, deductions

demonstrate

demonstrable, demonstrably, demonstrated, demonstrates, demonstrating, demonstration, demonstrations, demonstrative, demonstratively, demonstrator, demonstrators

document

documentation, documented, documenting, documents

dominant

dominate, dominance, dominated, dominates, dominating, domination

emphasis

emphasise, emphasised, emphasising, emphatic, emphatically

ensure

ensured, ensures, ensuring

excluded

exclude, excludes, excluding, exclusion, exclusionary, exclusionist, exclusions, exclusive, exclusively

framework

frameworks

funds

fund, funded, funder, funders, funding

illustrated

illustrate, illustrates, illustrating, illustration, illustrations, illustrative

immigration

immigrate, immigrant, immigrants, immigrated, immigrates, immigrating

implies

imply, implied, implying

initial

initially

instance

instances

interaction

interact, interacted, interacting, interactions, interactive, interactively, interacts

justification

justify, justifiable, justifiably, justifications, justified, justifies, justifying, unjustified

Most common form

Other words in the family

layer

layered, layering, layers

link

linkage, linkages, linked, linking, links

location

locate, located, locating, locations, relocate, relocated, relocates, relocating, relocation

maximum

maximise, max, maximised, maximises, maximising, maximisation

minorities

minor, minority, minors

negative

negate, negated, negates, negating, negatively, negatives

outcomes

outcome

partnership

partner, partners, partnerships

philosophy

philosopher, philosophers, philosophical, philosophically, philosophies, philosophise, philosophised, philosophises, philosophising

physical

physically

proportion

proportional, proportionally, proportionate, proportionately, proportions disproportion, disproportionate, disproportionately,

published

publish, publisher, publishers, publishes, publishing, unpublished

reaction

react, reacted, reacts, reacting, reactionaries, reactionary, reactions, reactive, reactivate, reactivation, reactor, reactors

registered

register, registering, registers, registration

deregister, deregistered, deregistering, deregisters, deregistration

reliance

rely, reliability, reliable, reliably, reliant, relied, relies, relying, unreliable

removed

remove, removable, removal, removals, removes, removing

scheme

schematic, schematically, schemed, schemes, scheming

sequence

sequenced, sequences, sequencing, sequential, sequentially

sex

sexes, sexism, sexual, sexuality, sexually

shift

shifted, shifting, shifts

specified

specify, specifiable, specifies, specifying unspecified

sufficient

sufficiency, insufficient, insufficiently, sufficiently

task

tasks

technical

technically

techniques

technique

technology

technological, technologically

validity

valid, invalidate, invalidity, validate, validated, validating, validation, validly

volume

volumes, vol

Most common form

Other words in the family

access

accessed, accesses, accessibility, accessible, accessing, inaccessible

adequate

adequacy, adequately, inadequacies, inadequacy, inadequate, inadequately

annual

annually

apparent

apparently

approximated

approximate, approximately, approximates, approximating, approximation, approximations

attitudes

attitude

attributed

attribute, attributable, attributes, attributing, attribution

civil

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code

coded, codes, coding

commitment

commit, commitments, commits, committed, committing

communication

communicate, communicable, communicated, communicates, communicating, communications, communicative, communicatively, uncommunicative

concentration

concentrate, concentrated, concentrates, concentrating

conference

confer, conferences, conferred, conferring, confers

contrast

contrasted, contrasting, contrastive, contrasts

cycle

cycled, cycles, cyclic, cyclical, cycling

debate

debatable, debated, debates, debating

despite

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dimensions

dimension, dimensional, multidimensional

domestic

domestically, domesticate, domesticated, domesticating, domestics

emerged

emerge, emergence, emergent, emerges, emerging

error

erroneous, erroneously, errors

ethnic

ethnicity

goals

goal

granted

grant, granting, grants

hence

-

hypothesis

hypotheses, hypothesise, hypothesised, hypothesises, hypothesising, hypothetical, hypothetically

implementation

implement, implemented, implementing, implements

implications

implicate, implicated, implicates, implicating, implication

imposed

impose, imposes, imposing, imposition

integration

integrate, integrated, integrates, integrating

internal

internalise, internalised, internalises, internalising, internally

investigation

investigate, investigated, investigates, investigating, investigations, investigative, investigator, investigators

job

jobs

label

labelled, labelling, labels

mechanism

mechanisms

obvious

obviously

occupational

occupy, occupancy, occupant, occupants, occupation, occupations, occupied, occupier, occupiers, occupies, occupying

option

optional, options

output

outputs

overall

-

parallel

paralleled, parallels, unparalleled

parameters

parameter

phase

phased, phases, phasing

predicted

predict, predictability, predictable, predictably, predicting, prediction, predictions, predicts, unpredictability, unpredictable

principal

principally

prior

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professional

professionally, professionals, professionalism

project

projected, projecting, projection, projections, projects

promote

promoted, promoter, promoters, promotes, promoting, promotion, promotions

regime

regimes

resolution

resolve, resolved, resolves, resolving, unresolved

retained

retain, retaining, retainer, retainers, retains, retention, retentive

series

-

statistics

statistic, statistician, statisticians, statistical, statistically

status

-

stress

stressed, stresses, stressful, stressing, unstressed

subsequent

subsequently

sum

summation, summed, summing, sums

summary

summaries, summarise, summarised, summarises, summarising, summarisation, summarisations

undertaken

undertake, undertakes, undertaking, undertook

Now try the activities which will help you become familiar with the words and expand your vocabulary.