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Read or download the Sublists 5 & 6 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

academic

academy, academia, academically, academics, academies

adjustment

adjust, adjusted, adjusting, adjustments, adjusts, readjust, readjusted, readjusting, readjustment, readjustments, readjusts

alter

alterable, alteration, alterations, altered, altering, alternate, alternating, alters, unalterable, unaltered

amendment

amend, amended, amending, amendments, amends

aware

awareness, unaware

capacity

capacities, incapacitate, incapacitated

challenge

challenged, challenger, challengers, challenges, challenging

clause

clauses

compounds

compound, compounded, compounding

conflict

conflicted, conflicting, conflicts

consultation

consult, consultancy, consultant, consultants, consultations, consultative, consulted, consults, consulting

contact

contactable, contacted, contacting, contacts

decline

declined, declines, declining

discretion

discrete, discretely, discretionary, indiscrete, indiscretion

draft

drafted, drafting, drafts, redraft, redrafted, redrafting, redrafts

enable

enabled, enables, enabling

energy

energetic, energetically, energies

enforcement

enforce, enforced, enforces, enforcing

entities

entity

equivalent

equivalence

evolution

evolve, evolved, evolving, evolves, evolutionary, evolutionist, evolutionists

expansion

expand, expanded, expanding, expands, expansionism, expansive

exposure

expose, exposed, exposes, exposing, exposures

external

externalisation, externalise, externalised, externalises, externalising, externality

facilitate

facilitated, facilitates, facilities, facilitating, facilitation, facilitator, facilitators, facility

fundamental

fundamentally

generated

generate, generates, generating

generation

generations

image

imagery, images

liberal

liberaliseliberalism, liberalisation, liberalised, liberalises, liberalising, liberalization, liberate, liberated, liberates, liberation, liberations, liberating, liberator, liberators, liberally, liberals

licence

licences, license, licensed, licensing, licenses, unlicensed

logic

illogical, illogically, logical, logically, logician, logicians

marginal

margin, marginally, margins

medical

medically

mental

mentality, mentally

modified

modify, modification, modifications, modifies, modifying, unmodified

monitoring

monitor, monitored, monitors, unmonitored

network

networked, networking, networks

notion

notions

objective

objectively, objectivity

orientation

orient, orientateorientatedorientates, orientating, oriented, orienting, orients, reorient, reorientation

perspective

perspectives

precise

imprecise, precisely, precision

prime

primacy

psychology

psychological, psychologically, psychologist, psychologists

pursue

pursued, pursues, pursuing, pursuit, pursuits

ratio

ratios

rejected

reject, rejecting, rejection, rejects, rejections

revenue

revenues

stability

stable, instability, stabilisation, stabilise, stabilised, stabilises, stabilising, unstable

styles

style, styled, styling, stylish, stylise, stylised, stylises, stylising

substitution

substitute, substituted, substitutes, substituting

sustainable

sustain, sustainability, sustained, sustaining, sustains, sustenance, unsustainable

symbolic

symbol, symbolically, symbolise, symbolises, symbolised, symbolising, symbolism, symbols

target

targeted, targeting, targets

transition

transit, transited, transiting, transitional, transitions, transitory, transits

trend

trends

version

versions

welfare

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whereas

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Most common form

Other words in the family

abstract

abstraction, abstractions, abstractly, abstracts

accurate

accuracy, accurately, inaccuracy, inaccuracies, inaccurate

acknowledged

acknowledge, acknowledges, acknowledging, acknowledgement, acknowledgements

aggregate

aggregated, aggregates, aggregating, aggregation

allocation

allocate, allocated, allocates, allocating, allocations

assigned

assign, assigning, assignment, assignments, assigns reassign, reassigned, reassigning, reassigns, unassigned

attached

attach, attaches, attaching, attachment, attachments, unattached

author

authored, authoring, authors, authorship

bond

bonded, bonding, bonds

brief

brevity, briefed, briefing, briefly, briefs

capable

capabilities, capability, incapable

cited

cite, citation, citations, citing, cites

cooperative

cooperate, cooperated, cooperates, cooperating, cooperation, cooperatively

co-operate, co-operated, co-operates, co-operation, co-operative, co-operatively

discrimination

discriminate, discriminated, discriminates, discriminating

display

displayed, displaying, displays

diversity

diverse, diversely, diversification, diversified, diversifies, diversify, diversifying

domain

domains

edition

edit, edited, editing, editions, editor, editorial, editorials, editors, edits

enhanced

enhance, enhancement, enhances, enhancing

estate

estates

exceed

exceeded, exceeding, exceeds

expert

expertise, expertly, experts

explicit

explicitly

federal

federation, federations

fees

fee

flexibility

flexible, inflexible, inflexibility

furthermore

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gender

genders

ignored

ignorant, ignorance, ignore, ignores, ignoring

incentive

incentives

incidence

incidentincidentally, incidents

incorporated

incorporate, incorporates, incorporating, incorporation

index

indexed, indexes, indexing

inhibition

inhibit, inhibited, inhibiting, inhibitions, inhibits

initiatives

initiate, initiated, initiates, initiating, initiation, initiations, initiative, initiator, initiators

input

inputs

instructions

instruct, instruction, instructed, instructing, instructive, instructor, instructors, instructs

intelligence

intelligent, intelligently, unintelligent

interval

intervals

lecture

lectured, lecturer, lecturers, lectures, lecturing

migration

migrate, migrant, migrants, migrated, migrates, migrating, migrations, migratory

minimum

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ministry

ministered, ministering, ministerial, ministries

motivation

motive, motivate, motivated, motivates, motivating, motivations, motives, unmotivated

neutral

neutralisation, neutralise, neutralised, neutralises, neutralising, neutralize, neutralized, neutralizes, neutralizing neutrality

nevertheless

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overseas

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preceding

precede, preceded, precedence, precedent, precedes, unprecedented

presumption

presume, presumably, presumed, presumes, presuming, presumptions, presumptuous

rational

irrational, rationalisation, rationalisations, rationalise, rationalised, rationalises, rationalising, rationalism, rationality, rationally

recovery

recover, recoverable, recovered, recovering, recovers

revealed

reveal, revealing, reveals, revelation, revelations

scope

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subsidiary

subsidy, subsidies, subsidise, subsidised, subsidises, subsidising, subsidize, subsidized, subsidizes, subsidizing

tapes

taped, taping

trace

traceable, traced, traces, tracing

transformation

transform, transformations, transformed, transforming, transforms

transport

transportation, transported, transporter, transporters, transporting, transports

underlying

underlie, underlay, underlies

utility

utilise, utilisation, utilised, utilises, utilising, utiliser, utilisers, utilize, utilization, utilized, utilizes, utilizing, utilizer, utilizers, utilities

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