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Assessment Derived Issues: Sublists of The Academic Word List
Assessment Derived Issues: Sublists of The Academic Word List
Each word in italics is the most frequently occurring member of the word family in the Academic Corpus. For
example, analysis is the most common form of the word family analyse. British and American spelling is included in
the word families, so contextualise and contextualize are both included in the family context.
Sublist 1 contains the most common words in the AWL. Sublist 2 contains the next most common words, and so on.
There are 60 families in each sublist, except for sublist 10 which has 30.
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Sublist 2 of the Academic Word List
affect resource
affected resourced
affecting resourceful
affective resources
affectively resourcing
affects unresourceful
unaffected under-resourced
credit transfer
credited transferable
crediting transference
creditor transferred
creditors transferring
credits transfers
evaluate
evaluated
evaluates
evaluating
evaluation
evaluations
evaluative
re-evaluate
re-evaluated
re-evaluates
re-evaluating
re-evaluation
final
finalise
finalised
finalises
finalising
finalize
finalized
finalizes
finalizing
finality
finally
finals
range
ranged
ranges
ranging
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Sublist 3 of Academic Word List
comment minors
commentaries
commentary rely
commentator reliability
commentators reliable
commented reliably
commenting reliance
comments reliant
relied
consent relies
consensus relying
consented unreliable
consenting
consents scheme
schematic
constrain schematically
constrained schemed
constraining schemes
constrains scheming
constraint
constraints shift
unconstrained shifted
shifting
convene shifts
convention
convenes
convened
convening
conventional
conventionally
conventions
unconventional
framework
frameworks
instance
instances
layer
layered
layering
layers
minor
minorities
minority
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Sublist 4 of the Academic Word List
access domestic internally
accessed domestically label
accesses domesticate labeled
accessibility domesticated labeling
accessible domesticating labelled
accessing domestics labelling
inaccessible emerge labels
adequate emerged occupy
adequacy emergence occupancy
adequately emergent occupant
inadequacies emerges occupants
inadequacy emerging occupation
inadequate ethnic occupational
inadequately ethnicity occupations
attribute goal occupied
attributable goals occupier
attributed grant occupiers
attributes granted occupies
attributing granting occupying
attribution grants option
code hence optional
coded hypothesis options
codes hypotheses output
coding hypothesise outputs
commit hypothesised overall
commitment hypothesises parallel
commitments hypothesising paralleled
commits hypothesize parallelled
committed hypothesized parallelling
committing hypothesizes parallels
confer hypothesizing unparalleled
conference hypothetical parameter
conferences hypothetically parameters
conferred phase
conferring integrate phased
confers integrated phases
contrast integrates phasing
contrasted integrating principal
contrasting integration principally
contrastive internal prior
contrasts internalise professional
cycle internalised professionally
cycled internalises professionals
cycles internalising professionalism
cyclic internalize project
cyclical internalized projected
cycling internalizes projecting
despite internalizing projection
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projections retainer summaries
projects retainers summarise
promote retains summarised
promoted retention summarises
promoter retentive summarising
promoters series summarisation
promotes status summarisations
promoting stress summarization
promotion stressed summarizations
promotions stresses summarize
regime stressful summarized
regimes stressing summarizes
resolve unstressed summarizing
resolution subsequent undertake
resolved subsequently undertaken
resolves sum undertakes
resolving summation undertaking
unresolved summed undertook
retain summing
retained sums
retaining summary
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Sublist 5 of the Academic Word List
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externally unlicensed perspective
facilitate logic perspectives
facilitated illogical precise
facilitates illogically imprecise
facilities logical precisely
facilitating logically precision
facilitation logician prime
facilitator logicians primacy
facilitators margin psychology
facility marginal psychological
fundamental marginally psychologically
fundamentally margins psychologist
generate medical psychologists
generated medically pursue
generates mental pursued
generating mentality pursues
generation mentally pursuing
generations modify pursuit
image modification pursuits
imagery modifications ratio
images modified ratios
liberal modifies reject
liberalise modifying rejected
liberalism unmodified rejecting
liberalisation monitor rejection
liberalised monitored rejects
liberalises monitoring rejections
liberalising monitors revenue
liberalization unmonitored revenues
liberalize network stable
liberalized networked instability
liberalizes networking stabilisation
liberalizing networks stabilise
liberate notion stabilised
liberated notions stabilises
liberates objective stabilising
liberation objectively stabilization
liberations objectivity stabilize
liberating orient stabilized
liberator orientate stabilizes
liberators orientated stabilizing
liberally orientates stability
liberals orientation unstable
licence orientating style
licences oriented styled
license orienting styles
licensed orients styling
licensing reorient stylish
licenses reorientation stylise
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stylised welfare
stylises whereas
stylising
stylize
stylized
stylizes
stylizing
substitute
substituted
substitutes
substituting
substitution
sustain
sustainable
sustainability
sustained
sustaining
sustains
sustenance
unsustainable
symbol
symbolic
symbolically
symbolise
symbolises
symbolised
symbolising
symbolism
symbolize
symbolized
symbolizes
symbolizing
symbols
target
targeted
targeting
targets
transit
transited
transiting
transition
transitional
transitions
transitory
transits
trend
trends
version
versions
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Sublist 6 of the Academic Word List
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genders intelligent overseas
ignorant intelligence precede
ignorance intelligently preceded
ignore unintelligent precedence
ignored interval precedent
ignores intervals precedes
ignoring lecture preceding
incentive lectured unprecedented
incentives lecturer presume
incidence lecturers presumably
incident lectures presumed
incidentally lecturing presumes
incidents migrate presuming
incorporate migrant presumption
incorporated migrants presumptions
incorporates migrated presumptuous
incorporating migrates rational
incorporation migrating irrational
index migration rationalisation
indexed migrations rationalisations
indexes migratory rationalise
indexing minimum rationalised
inhibit ministry rationalises
inhibited ministered rationalising
inhibiting ministering rationalism
inhibition ministerial rationality
inhibitions ministries rationalization
inhibits motive rationalizations
initiate motivate rationalize
initiated motivated rationalized
initiates motivates rationalizes
initiating motivating rationally
initiation motivation recover
initiations motivations recoverable
initiative motives recovered
initiatives unmotivated recovering
initiator neutral recovers
initiators neutralisation recovery
input neutralise reveal
inputs neutralised revealed
instruct neutralises revealing
instruction neutralising reveals
instructed neutrality revelation
instructing neutralization revelations
instructions neutralize scope
instructive neutralized subsidy
instructor neutralizes subsidiary
instructors neutralizing subsidies
instructs nevertheless subsidise
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subsidised
subsidises
subsidising
subsidize
subsidized
subsidizes
subsidizing
tape
taped
tapes
taping
trace
traceable
traced
traces
tracing
transform
transformation
transformations
transformed
transforming
transforms
transport
transportation
transported
transporter
transporters
transporting
transports
underlie
underlay
underlies
underlying
utilise
utilisation
utilised
utilises
utilising
utiliser
utilisers
utility
utilities
utilization
utilize
utilized
utilizes
utilizing
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Sublist 7 of the Academic Word List
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innovation prohibitions survivors
innovated prohibitive thesis
innovates prohibits theses
innovating publication topic
innovations publications topical
innovative quote topics
innovator quotation transmit
innovators quotations transmission
insert quoted transmissions
inserted quotes transmitted
inserting quoting transmitting
insertion release transmits
inserts released ultimate
intervene releases ultimately
intervened releasing unique
intervenes reverse uniquely
intervening reversal uniqueness
intervention reversed visible
interventions reverses visibility
isolate reversible visibly
isolated reversing invisible
isolates reversals invisibility
isolating irreversible voluntary
isolation simulate voluntarily
isolationism simulated volunteer
media simulates volunteering
mode simulating volunteered
modes simulation volunteers
paradigm sole
paradigms solely
phenomenon somewhat
phenomena submit
phenomenal submission
priority submissions
priorities submits
prioritisation submitted
prioritise submitting
prioritised successor
prioritises succession
prioritising successions
prioritization successive
prioritize successively
prioritized successors
prioritizes survive
prioritizing survival
prohibit survived
prohibited survives
prohibiting surviving
prohibition survivor
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Sublist 8 of the Academic Word List
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eventually intensifies restoration
exhibit intensify restored
exhibited intensifying restores
exhibiting intension restoring
exhibition intensity revise
exhibitions intensive revised
exhibits intensively revises
exploit manipulate revising
exploitation manipulated revision
exploited manipulates revisions
exploiting manipulating schedule
exploits manipulation reschedule
fluctuate manipulations rescheduled
fluctuated manipulative reschedules
fluctuates minimise rescheduling
fluctuating minimised scheduled
fluctuation minimises schedules
fluctuations minimising scheduling
guideline minimize unscheduled
guidelines minimized tense
highlight minimizes tension
highlighted minimizing tensely
highlighting nuclear tenser
highlights offset tensest
implicit offsets tensions
implicitly offsetting terminate
induce paragraph terminal
induced paragraphing terminals
induces paragraphs terminated
inducing plus terminates
induction pluses terminating
inevitable practitioner termination
inevitability practitioners terminations
inevitably prospect theme
infrastructure prospective themes
infrastructures prospects thematic
inspect radical thematically
inspected radically thereby
inspecting radicals uniform
inspection random uniformity
inspections randomly uniformly
inspector randomness vehicle
inspectors reinforce vehicles
inspects reinforced via
intense reinforcement virtual
intensely reinforcements virtually
intenseness reinforces visual
intensification reinforcing visualise
intensified restore visualised
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visualising
visualisation
visualize
visualized
visualizing
visualization
visually
widespread
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Sublist 9 of the Academic Word List
concurrent formatting
accommodate concurrently formats
accommodated confine found
accommodates confined founded
accommodating confines founder
accommodation confining founders
analogy unconfined founding
analogies controversy unfounded
analogous controversies inherent
assure controversial inherently
assurance controversially insight
assurances uncontroversial insightful
assured converse insights
assuredly conversely integral
assures device intermediate
assuring devices manual
attain devote manually
attainable devoted manuals
attained devotedly mature
attaining devotes immature
attainment devoting immaturity
attainments devotion maturation
attains devotions maturational
unattainable diminish matured
behalf diminished matures
bulk diminishes maturing
bulky diminishing maturity
cease diminution mediate
ceased undiminished mediated
ceaseless distort mediates
ceases distorted mediating
ceasing distorting mediation
coincide distortion medium
coincided distortions military
coincides distorts minimal
coinciding duration minimalisation
coincidence erode minimalise
coincidences eroded minimalises
coincident erodes minimalised
coincidental eroding minimalising
commence erosion minimalist
commenced ethic minimalists
commences ethical minimalistic
commencement ethically minimalization
commencing ethics minimalize
recommences unethical minimalized
recommenced format minimalizes
recommencing formatted minimalizing
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minimally spheres
mutual spherical
mutually spherically
norm subordinate
norms subordinates
overlap subordination
overlapped supplement
overlapping supplementary
overlaps supplemented
passive supplementing
passively supplements
passivity suspend
portion suspended
portions suspending
preliminary suspends
preliminaries suspension
protocol team
protocols teamed
qualitative teaming
qualitatively teams
refine temporary
refined temporarily
refinement trigger
refinements triggered
refines triggering
refining triggers
relax unify
relaxation unification
relaxed unified
relaxes unifies
relaxing unifying
restrain violate
restrained violated
restraining violates
restrains violating
restraint violation
restraints violations
unrestrained vision
rigid visions
rigidities
rigidity
rigidly
route
routed
routes
routing
scenario
scenarios
sphere
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Sublist 10 of the Academic Word List
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