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.

Sublist 1 of the Academic Word List

analyse reassessed conceptually

analysed reassessing consist
analyser reassessment consisted
analysers unassessed consistency
analyses assume consistent
analysing assumed consistently
analysis assumes consisting
analyst assuming consists
analysts assumption inconsistencies
analytic assumptions inconsistency
analytical authority inconsistent
analytically authoritative constitute
analyze authorities constituencies
analyzed available constituency
analyzes availability constituent
analyzing unavailable constituents
approach benefit constituted
approachable beneficial constitutes
approached beneficiary constituting
approaches beneficiaries constitution
approaching benefited constitutions
unapproachable benefiting constitutional
area benefits constitutionally
areas concept constitutive
assess conception unconstitutional
assessable concepts context
assessed conceptual contexts
assesses conceptualisation contextual
assessing conceptualise contextualise
assessment conceptualised contextualised
assessments conceptualises contextualising
reassess conceptualising uncontextualised

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 contextualize deriving estimation
contextualized distribute estimations
contextualizing distributed over-estimate
uncontextualized distributing overestimate
contract distribution overestimated
contracted distributional overestimates
contracting distributions overestimating
contractor distributive underestimate
contractors distributor underestimated
contracts distributors underestimates
create redistribute underestimating
created redistributed evident
creates redistributes evidenced
creating redistributing evidence
creation redistribution evidential
creations economy evidently
creative economic export
creatively economical exported
creativity economically exporter
creator economics exporters
creators economies exporting
recreate economist exports
recreated economists factor
recreates uneconomical factored
recreating environment factoring
data environmental factors
define environmentalist finance
definable environmentalists financed
defined environmentally finances
defines environments financial
defining establish financially
definition disestablish financier
definitions disestablished financiers
redefine disestablishes financing
redefined disestablishing formula
redefines disestablishment formulae
redefining established formulas
undefined establishes formulate
derive establishing formulated
derivation establishment formulating
derivations establishments formulation
derivative estimate formulations
derivatives estimated reformulate
derived estimates reformulated
derives estimating reformulating

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 reformulation misinterpret majorities
reformulations misinterpretation majority
function misinterpretations method
functional misinterpreted methodical
functionally misinterpreting methodological
functioned misinterprets methodologies
functioning reinterpret methodology
functions reinterpreted methods
identify reinterprets occur
identifiable reinterpreting occurred
identification reinterpretation occurrence
identified reinterpretations occurrences
identifies involve occurring
identifying involved occurs
identities involvement reoccur
identity involves reoccurred
unidentifiable involving reoccurring
income uninvolved reoccurs
incomes issue percent
indicate issued percentage
indicated issues percentages
indicates issuing period
indicating labour periodic
indication labor periodical
indications labored periodically
indicative labors periodicals
indicator laboured periods
indicators labouring policy
individual labours policies
individualised legal principle
individuality illegal principled
individualism illegality principles
individualist illegally unprincipled
individualists legality proceed
individualistic legally procedural
individually legislate procedure
individuals legislated procedures
interpret legislates proceeded
interpretation legislating proceeding
interpretations legislation proceedings
interpretative legislative proceeds
interpreted legislator process
interpreting legislators processed
interpretive legislature processes
interprets major processing

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require source
required sourced
requirement sources
requirements sourcing
requires specific
requiring specifically
research specification
researched specifications
researcher specificity
researchers specifics
researches structure
researching restructure
respond restructured
responded restructures
respondent restructuring
respondents structural
responding structurally
responds structured
response structures
responses structuring
responsive unstructured
responsiveness theory
unresponsive theoretical
role theoretically
roles theories
section theorist
sectioned theorists
sectioning vary
sections invariable
sector invariably
sectors variability
significant variable
insignificant variables
insignificantly variably
significance variance
significantly variant
signified variants
signifies variation
signify variations
signifying varied
similar varies
dissimilar varying
similarities
similarity
similarly

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Sublist 2 of the Academic Word List

achieve assists conclusively

achievable unassisted inconclusive
achieved category inconclusively
achievement categories conduct
achievements categorisation conducted
achieves categorise conducting
achieving categorised conducts
acquire categorises consequent
acquired categorising consequence
acquires categorization consequences
acquiring categorized consequently
acquisition categorizes construct
acquisitions categorizing constructed
administrate chapter constructing
administrates chapters construction
administration commission constructions
administrations commissioned constructive
administrative commissioner constructs
administratively commissioners reconstruct
administrator commissioning reconstructed
administrators commissions reconstructing
affect community reconstruction
affected communities reconstructs
affecting complex consume
affective complexities consumed
affectively complexity consumer
affects compute consumers
unaffected computation consumes
appropriate computational consuming
appropriacy computations consumption
appropriately computable credit
appropriateness computer credited
inappropriacy computed crediting
inappropriate computerised creditor
inappropriately computers creditors
aspect computing credits
aspects conclude culture
assist concluded cultural
assistance concludes culturally
assistant concluding cultured
assistants conclusion cultures
assisted conclusions uncultured
assisting conclusive design

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 designed finalizing investing
designer finality investment
designers finally investments
designing finals investor
designs focus investors
distinct focused invests
distinction focuses reinvest
distinctions focusing reinvested
distinctive focussed reinvesting
distinctively focussing reinvestment
distinctly refocus reinvests
indistinct refocused item
indistinctly refocuses itemisation
element refocusing itemise
elements refocussed itemised
equate refocusses itemises
equated refocussing itemising
equates impact items
equating impacted journal
equation impacting journals
equations impacts maintain
evaluate injure maintained
evaluated injured maintaining
evaluates injures maintains
evaluating injuries maintenance
evaluation injuring normal
evaluations injury abnormal
evaluative uninjured abnormally
re-evaluate institute normalisation
re-evaluated instituted normalise
re-evaluates institutes normalised
re-evaluating instituting normalises
re-evaluation institution normalising
feature institutional normalization
featured institutionalise normalize
features institutionalised normalized
featuring institutionalises normalizes
final institutionalising normalizing
finalise institutionalized normality
finalised institutionalizes normally
finalises institutionalizing obtain
finalising institutionally obtainable
finalize institutions obtained
finalized invest obtaining
finalizes invested obtains

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 unobtainable regulation seek
participate regulations seeking
participant regulator seeks
participants regulators sought
participated regulatory select
participates unregulated selected
participating relevant selecting
participation irrelevance selection
participatory irrelevant selections
perceive relevance selective
perceived reside selectively
perceives resided selector
perceiving residence selectors
perception resident selects
perceptions residential site
positive residents sites
positively resides strategy
potential residing strategic
potentially resource strategies
previous resourced strategically
previously resourceful strategist
primary resources strategists
primarily resourcing survey
purchase unresourceful surveyed
purchased under-resourced surveying
purchaser restrict surveys
purchasers restricted text
purchases restricting texts
purchasing restriction textual
range restrictions tradition
ranged restrictive non-traditional
ranges restrictively traditional
ranging restricts traditionalist
region unrestricted traditionally
regional unrestrictive traditions
regionally secure transfer
regions insecure transferable
regulate insecurities transference
deregulated insecurity transferred
deregulates secured transferring
deregulating securely transfers
deregulation secures
regulated securing
regulates securities
regulating security

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Sublist 3 of Academic Word List

alternative contribute correspondingly

alternatively contributed corresponds
alternatives contributes criteria
circumstance contributing criterion
circumstances contribution deduce
comment contributions deduced
commentaries contributor deduces
commentary contributors deducing
commentator convene deduction
commentators convention deductions
commented convenes demonstrate
commenting convened demonstrable
comments convening demonstrably
compensate conventional demonstrated
compensated conventionally demonstrates
compensates conventions demonstrating
compensating unconventional demonstration
compensation coordinate demonstrations
compensations coordinated demonstrative
compensatory coordinates demonstratively
component coordinating demonstrator
componentry coordination demonstrators
components coordinator document
consent coordinators documentation
consensus co-ordinate documented
consented co-ordinated documenting
consenting co-ordinates documents
consents co-ordinating dominate
considerable co-ordination dominance
considerably co-ordinator dominant
constant co-ordinators dominated
constancy core dominates
constantly cores dominating
constants coring domination
inconstancy cored emphasis
inconstantly corporate emphasise
constrain corporates emphasised
constrained corporation emphasising
constraining corporations emphasize
constrains correspond emphasized
constraint corresponded emphasizes
constraints correspondence emphasizing
unconstrained corresponding emphatic

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 emphatically interact maximizes
ensure interacted maximizing
ensured interacting maximization
ensures interaction maximum
ensuring interactions minor
exclude interactive minorities
excluded interactively minority
excludes interacts minors
excluding justify negate
exclusion justifiable negative
exclusionary justifiably negated
exclusionist justification negates
exclusions justifications negating
exclusive justified negatively
exclusively justifies negatives
framework justifying outcome
frameworks unjustified outcomes
fund layer partner
funded layered partners
funder layering partnership
funders layers partnerships
funding link philosophy
funds linkage philosopher
illustrate linkages philosophers
illustrated linked philosophical
illustrates linking philosophically
illustrating links philosophies
illustration locate philosophise
illustrations located philosophised
illustrative locating philosophises
immigrate location philosophising
immigrant locations philosophize
immigrants relocate philosophized
immigrated relocated philosophizes
immigrates relocates philosophizing
immigrating relocating physical
immigration relocation physically
imply maximise proportion
implied max disproportion
implies maximised disproportionate
implying maximises disproportionately
initial maximising proportional
initially maximisation proportionally
instance maximize proportionate
instances maximized proportionately

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 proportions removed valid
publish removes invalidate
published removing invalidity
publisher scheme validate
publishers schematic validated
publishes schematically validating
publishing schemed validation
unpublished schemes validity
react scheming validly
reacted sequence volume
reacts sequenced volumes
reacting sequences vol
reaction sequencing
reactionaries sequential
reactionary sequentially
reactions sex
reactive sexes
reactivate sexism
reactivation sexual
reactor sexuality
reactors sexually
register shift
deregister shifted
deregistered shifting
deregistering shifts
deregisters specify
deregistration specifiable
registered specified
registering specifies
registers specifying
registration unspecified
rely sufficient
reliability sufficiency
reliable insufficient
reliably insufficiently
reliance sufficiently
reliant task
relied tasks
relies technical
relying technically
unreliable technique
remove techniques
removable technology
removal technological
removals technologically

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Sublist 4 of the Academic Word List
access committing domestic
accessed communicate domestically
accesses communicable domesticate
accessibility communicated domesticated
accessible communicates domesticating
accessing communicating domestics
inaccessible communication emerge
adequate communications emerged
adequacy communicative emergence
adequately communicatively emergent
inadequacies uncommunicative emerges
inadequacy concentrate emerging
inadequate concentrated error
inadequately concentrates erroneous
annual concentrating erroneously
annually concentration errors
apparent confer ethnic
apparently conference ethnicity
approximate conferences goal
approximated conferred goals
approximately conferring grant
approximates confers granted
approximating contrast granting
approximation contrasted grants
approximations contrasting hence
attitude contrastive hypothesis
attitudes contrasts hypotheses
attribute cycle hypothesise
attributable cycled hypothesised
attributed cycles hypothesises
attributes cyclic hypothesising
attributing cyclical hypothesize
attribution cycling hypothesized
civil debate hypothesizes
code debatable hypothesizing
coded debated hypothetical
codes debates hypothetically
coding debating implement
commit despite implementation
commitment dimension implemented
commitments dimensional implementing
commits dimensions implements
committed multidimensional implicate

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 implicated obviously professional
implicates occupy professionally
implicating occupancy professionals
implication occupant professionalism
implications occupants project
impose occupation projected
imposed occupational projecting
imposes occupations projection
imposing occupied projections
imposition occupier projects
integrate occupiers promote
integrated occupies promoted
integrates occupying promoter
integrating option promoters
integration optional promotes
internal options promoting
internalise output promotion
internalised outputs promotions
internalises overall regime
internalising parallel regimes
internalize paralleled resolve
internalized parallelled resolution
internalizes parallelling resolved
internalizing parallels resolves
internally unparalleled resolving
investigate parameter unresolved
investigated parameters retain
investigates phase retained
investigating phased retaining
investigation phases retainer
investigations phasing retainers
investigative predict retains
investigator predictability retention
investigators predictable retentive
job predictably series
jobs predicted statistic
label predicting statistician
labeled prediction statisticians
labeling predictions statistical
labelled predicts statistically
labelling unpredictability statistics
labels unpredictable status
mechanism principal stress
mechanisms principally stressed
obvious prior stresses

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 stressful summaries summarizes
stressing summarise summarizing
unstressed summarised undertake
subsequent summarises undertaken
subsequently summarising undertakes
sum summarisation undertaking
summation summarisations undertook
summed summarization
summing summarizations
sums summarize
summary summarized

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Sublist 5 of the Academic Word List

academy challenged drafts

academia challenger redraft
academic challengers redrafted
academically challenges redrafting
academics challenging redrafts
academies clause enable
adjust clauses enabled
adjusted compound enables
adjusting compounded enabling
adjustment compounding energy
adjustments compounds energetic
adjusts conflict energetically
readjust conflicted energies
readjusted conflicting enforce
readjusting conflicts enforced
readjustment consult enforcement
readjustments consultancy enforces
readjusts consultant enforcing
alter consultants entity
alterable consultation entities
alteration consultations equivalent
alterations consultative equivalence
altered consulted evolve
altering consults evolution
alternate consulting evolved
alternating contact evolving
alters contactable evolves
unalterable contacted evolutionary
unaltered contacting evolutionist
amend contacts evolutionists
amended decline expand
amending declined expanded
amendment declines expanding
amendments declining expands
amends discrete expansion
aware discretely expansionism
awareness discretion expansive
unaware discretionary expose
capacity indiscrete exposed
capacities indiscretion exposes
incapacitate draft exposing
incapacitated drafted exposure
challenge drafting exposures

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external liberate network
externalisation liberated networked
externalise liberates networking
externalised liberation networks
externalises liberations notion
externalising liberating notions
externality liberator objective
externalization liberators objectively
externalize liberally objectivity
externalized liberals orient
externalizes licence orientate
externalizing licences orientated
externally license orientates
facilitate licensed orientation
facilitated licensing orientating
facilitates licenses oriented
facilities unlicensed orienting
facilitating logic orients
facilitation illogical reorient
facilitator illogically reorientation
facilitators logical perspective
facility logically perspectives
fundamental logician precise
fundamentally logicians imprecise
generate margin precisely
generated marginal precision
generates marginally prime
generating margins primacy
generation medical psychology
generations medically psychological
image mental psychologically
imagery mentality psychologist
images mentally psychologists
liberal modify pursue
liberalise modification pursued
liberalism modifications pursues
liberalisation modified pursuing
liberalised modifies pursuit
liberalises modifying pursuits
liberalising unmodified ratio
liberalization monitor ratios
liberalize monitored reject
liberalized monitoring rejected
liberalizes monitors rejecting
liberalizing unmonitored rejection

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 rejects symbolic
rejections symbolically
revenue symbolise
revenues symbolises
stable symbolised
instability symbolising
stabilisation symbolism
stabilise symbolize
stabilised symbolized
stabilises symbolizes
stabilising symbolizing
stabilization symbols
stabilize target
stabilized targeted
stabilizes targeting
stabilizing targets
stability transit
unstable transited
style transiting
styled transition
styles transitional
styling transitions
stylish transitory
stylise transits
stylised trend
stylises trends
stylising version
stylize versions
stylized welfare
stylizes whereas
stylizing
substitute
substituted
substitutes
substituting
substitution
sustain
sustainable
sustainability
sustained
sustaining
sustains
sustenance
unsustainable
symbol

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Sublist 6 of the Academic Word List

abstract attachment discriminates

abstraction attachments discriminating
abstractions unattached discrimination
abstractly author display
abstracts authored displayed
accurate authoring displaying
accuracy authors displays
accurately authorship diverse
inaccuracy bond diversely
inaccuracies bonded diversification
inaccurate bonding diversified
acknowledge bonds diversifies
acknowledged brief diversify
acknowledges brevity diversifying
acknowledging briefed diversity
acknowledgement briefing domain
acknowledgemens briefly domains
aggregate briefs edit
aggregated capable edited
aggregates capabilities editing
aggregating capability edition
aggregation incapable editions
allocate cite editor
allocated citation editorial
allocates citations editorials
allocating cited editors
allocation citing edits
allocations cites enhance
assign cooperate enhanced
assigned cooperated enhancement
assigning cooperates enhances
assignment cooperating enhancing
assignments cooperation estate
assigns cooperative estates
reassign cooperatively exceed
reassigned co-operate exceeded
reassigning co-operated exceeding
reassigns co-operates exceeds
unassigned co-operation expert
attach co-operative expertise
attached co-operatively expertly
attaches discriminate experts
attaching discriminated explicit

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 explicitly initiations motivated
federal initiative motivates
federation initiatives motivating
federations initiator motivation
fee initiators motivations
fees input motives
flexible inputs unmotivated
flexibility instruct neutral
inflexible instruction neutralisation
inflexibility instructed neutralise
furthermore instructing neutralised
gender instructions neutralises
genders instructive neutralising
ignorant instructor neutrality
ignorance instructors neutralization
ignore instructs neutralize
ignored intelligent neutralized
ignores intelligence neutralizes
ignoring intelligently neutralizing
incentive unintelligent nevertheless
incentives interval overseas
incidence intervals precede
incident lecture preceded
incidentally lectured precedence
incidents lecturer precedent
incorporate lecturers precedes
incorporated lectures preceding
incorporates lecturing unprecedented
incorporating migrate presume
incorporation migrant presumably
index migrants presumed
indexed migrated presumes
indexes migrates presuming
indexing migrating presumption
inhibit migration presumptions
inhibited migrations presumptuous
inhibiting migratory rational
inhibition minimum irrational
inhibitions ministry rationalisation
inhibits ministered rationalisations
initiate ministering rationalise
initiated ministerial rationalised
initiates ministries rationalises
initiating motive rationalising
initiation motivate rationalism

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 rationality transforms
rationalization transport
rationalizations transportation
rationalize transported
rationalized transporter
rationalizes transporters
rationally transporting
recover transports
recoverable underlie
recovered underlay
recovering underlies
recovers underlying
recovery utilise
reveal utilisation
revealed utilised
revealing utilises
reveals utilising
revelation utiliser
revelations utilisers
scope utility
subsidy utilities
subsidiary utilization
subsidies utilize
subsidise utilized
subsidised utilizes
subsidises utilizing
subsidising
subsidize
subsidized
subsidizes
subsidizing
tape
taped
tapes
taping
trace
traceable
traced
traces
tracing
transform
transformation
transformations
transformed
transforming

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