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Word list

 

In these activities, you will learn to use the words in Sublists 9&10 of the Academic Word List.

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

accommodation

accommodate, accommodated, accommodates, accommodating

analogous

analogy, analogies

anticipated

anticipate, anticipates, anticipating, anticipation, anticipated

assurance

assure, assurances, assured, assuredly, assures, assuring

attained

attain, attainable, attaining, attainment, attainments, attains unattainable

behalf

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bulk

bulky

ceases

cease, ceased, ceaseless, ceasing

coherence

coherent, coherently incoherent, incoherently

coincide

coincided, coincides, coinciding, coincidence, coincidences, coincident, coincidental

commenced

commence, commences, commencement, commencing recommences, recommenced, recommencing

incompatible

compatible, compatibility, incompatibility

concurrent

concurrently

confined

confine, confines, confining, unconfined

controversy

controversies, controversial, controversially, uncontroversial

conversely

converse

device

devices

devoted

devote, devotedly, devotes, devoting, devotion, devotions

diminished

diminish, diminishes, diminishing, diminution, undiminished

distorted

distort, distortingdistortion, distortions, distorts

duration

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erosion

erode, eroded, erodes, eroding

ethical

ethic, ethically, ethics, unethical

format

formatted, formatting, formats

founded

found, founder, founders, founding unfounded

inherent

inherently

insights

insight, insightful

integral

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intermediate

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manual

manually, manuals

mature

maturation, maturational, matured, matures, maturing, maturity immature, immaturity

mediation

mediate, mediated, mediates, mediating

medium

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military

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minimal

minimalisation, minimalise, minimalises, minimalised, minimalising, minimalization, minimalize, minimalizes, minimalized, minimalizing, minimalist, minimalists, minimalistic, minimally

mutual

mutually

norms

norm

overlap

overlapped, overlapping, overlaps

passive

passively, passivity

portion

portions

preliminary

preliminaries

protocol

protocols

qualitative

qualitatively

refine

refined, refinement, refinements, refines, refining

relaxed

relax, relaxation, relaxes, relaxing

restraints

restrain, restrained, restraining, restrains, restraint, unrestrained

revolution

revolutionary, revolutionaries, revolutionise, revolutionised, revolutionises, revolutionising, revolutionize, revolutionized, revolutionizes, revolutionizing, revolutionist, revolutionists, revolutions

rigid

rigidities, rigidity, rigidly

route

routed, routes, routing

scenario

scenarios

sphere

spheres, spherical, spherically

subordinate

subordinates, subordination

supplementary

supplement, supplemented, supplementing, supplements

suspended

suspend, suspending, suspends, suspension

team

teamed, teaming, teams

temporary

temporarily

trigger

triggered, triggering, triggers

unified

unify, unification, unifies, unifying

violation

violate, violated, violates, violating, violations

vision

visions

Most common form

Other words in the family

adjacent

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albeit

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assembly

assemble, assembled, assembles, assemblies, assembling

collapse

collapsed, collapses, collapsible, collapsing

colleagues

colleague

compiled

compile, compilation, compilations, compiles, compiling

conceived

conceive, conceivable, conceivably, conceives, conceiving, inconceivable, inconceivably

convinced

convince, convinces, convincing, convincingly, unconvinced

depression

depress, depressed, depresses, depressing

encountered

encounter, encountering, encounters

enormous

enormity, enormously

forthcoming

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inclination

incline, inclinations, inclined, inclines, inclining

integrity

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intrinsic

intrinsically

invoked

invoke, invokes, invoking

levy

levies

likewise

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nonetheless

-

notwithstanding

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odd

odds

ongoing

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panel

panelled, panelling, panels

persistent

persist, persisted, persistence, persistently, persisting, persists

posed

pose, poses, posing

reluctant

reluctance, reluctantly

so-called

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straightforward

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undergo

undergoes, undergoing, undergone, underwent

whereby

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