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Word list

 

In these activities, you will learn to use the words in Sublists 7&8 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

adaptation

adapt, adaptability, adaptable, adaptations, adapted, adapting, adaptive, adapts

adults

adult, adulthood

advocate

advocacy, advocated, advocates, advocating

aid

aided, aiding, aids, unaided

channel

channelled, channelling, channels

chemical

chemically, chemicals

classical

classic, classics

comprehensive

comprehensively

comprise

comprised, comprises, comprising

confirmed

confirm, confirmation, confirming, confirms

contrary

contrarily

converted

convert, conversion, conversions, convertible, converting, converts

couple

coupled, coupling, couples

decades

decade

definite

definitely, definitive, indefinite, indefinitely

deny

deniable, denial, denials, denied, denies, denying undeniable

differentiation

differentiate, differentiated, differentiates, differentiating

disposal

dispose, disposable, disposed, disposes, disposing

dynamic

dynamically, dynamics

eliminate

eliminated, eliminates, eliminating, elimination

empirical

empirically, empiricism

equipment

equip, equipped, equipping, equips

extract

extracted, extracting, extraction, extracts

file

filed, files, filing

finite

infinite, infinitely

foundation

foundations

global

globe, globally, globalisation, globalization

grade

graded, grades, grading

guarantee

guaranteed, guaranteeing, guarantees

hierarchical

hierarchy, hierarchies

identical

identically

ideology

ideological, ideologically, ideologies

inferred

infer, inference, inferences, inferring, infers

innovation

innovate, innovated, innovates, innovating, innovations, innovative, innovator, innovators

insert

inserted, inserting, insertion, inserts

intervention

intervene, intervened, intervenes, intervening, interventions

isolated

isolate, isolates, isolating, isolation, isolationism

media

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mode

modes

paradigm

paradigms

phenomenon

phenomena, phenomenal

priority

priorities, prioritisation, prioritise, prioritised, prioritises, prioritising

prohibited

prohibit, prohibiting, prohibition, prohibitions, prohibitive, prohibits

publication

publications

quotation

quote, quotations, quoted, quotes, quoting

release

released, releases, releasing

reverse

reversal, reversed, reverses, reversible, reversing, reversals, irreversible

simulation

simulate, simulated, simulates, simulating

solely

sole

somewhat

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submitted

submit, submission, submissions, submits, submitting

successive

successor, succession, successions, successively, successors

survive

survival, survived, survives, surviving, survivor, survivors

thesis

theses

topic

topical, topics

transmission

transmit, transmissions, transmitted, transmitting, transmits

ultimately

ultimate

unique

uniquely, uniqueness

visible

visibility, visibly, invisible, invisibility

voluntary

voluntarily, volunteer, volunteering, volunteered, volunteers

Most common form

Other words in the family

abandon

abandoned, abandoning, abandonment, abandons

accompanied

accompany, accompanies, accompaniment, accompanying, unaccompanied

accumulation

accumulate, accumulated, accumulating, accumulates

ambiguous

ambiguities, ambiguity, unambiguous, unambiguously

appendix

append, appended, appends, appending, appendices, appendixes

appreciation

appreciate, appreciable, appreciably, appreciated, appreciates, appreciating, unappreciated

arbitrary

arbitrariness, arbitrarily

automatically

automate, automatic, automated, automates, automating, automation

bias

biased, biases, biasing, unbiased

chart

charted, charting, charts, uncharted

clarity

clarify, clarification, clarified, clarifies, clarifying

commodity

commodities

complement

complementary, complemented, complementing, complements

conformity

conform, conformable, conformability, conformance, conformation, conformed, conforming, conformist, conformists, conforms,

nonconformist, nonconformists, nonconformity, non-conformist, non-conformists, non- conformity

contemporary

contemporaries

contradiction

contradict, contradicted, contradicting, contradictions, contradictory, contradicts

crucial

crucially

currency

currencies

denote

denotation, denotations, denoted, denotes, denoting

detected

detect, detectable, detecting, detection, detective, detectives, detector, detectors, detects

deviation

deviate, deviated, deviates, deviating, deviations

displacement

displace, displaced, displaces, displacing

dramatic

drama, dramas, dramatically, dramatise, dramatised, dramatising, dramatises, dramatisation, dramatisations, dramatist, dramatists, dramatization, dramatizations, dramatizing

eventually

eventual, eventuality

exhibit

exhibited, exhibiting, exhibition, exhibitions, exhibits

exploitation

exploit, exploited, exploiting, exploits

fluctuations

fluctuate, fluctuated, fluctuates, fluctuating, fluctuation

guidelines

guideline

highlighted

highlight, highlighting, highlights

imply

implied, implying

induced

induce, induces, inducing, induction

inevitably

inevitable, inevitability

infrastructure

infrastructures

inspection

inspect, inspected, inspecting, inspections, inspector, inspectors, inspects

intensity

intense, intensely, intenseness, intensification, intensified, intensifies, intensify, intensifying, intension, intensive, intensively

manipulation

manipulate, manipulated, manipulates, manipulating, manipulations, manipulative

minimised

minimise, minimises, minimising

nuclear

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offset

offsets, offsetting

paragraph

paragraphing, paragraphs

plus

pluses

practitioners

practitioner

predominantly

predominant, predominance, predominate, predominated, predominates, predominating

prospect

prospective, prospects

radical

radically, radicals

random

randomly, randomness

reinforced

reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcements, reinforces, reinforcing

restore

restoration, restored, restores, restoring

revision

revise, revised, revises, revising, revisions

schedule

reschedule, rescheduled, reschedules, rescheduling, scheduled, schedules, scheduling, unscheduled

tension

tense, tensely, tenser, tensest, tensions

termination

terminate, terminal, terminals, terminated, terminates, terminating, terminations

theme

themes, thematic, thematically

thereby

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uniform

uniformity, uniformly

vehicle

vehicles

via

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virtually

virtual

visual

visualise, visualised, visualises, visualising, visualisation, visualize, visualized, visualizes, visualizing, visualization, visually

widespread

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