Academic word list 5 & 6
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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
Academic word list 5
| 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 | - |
| whereas | - |
Academic word list 6
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| overseas | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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 |
Activities
Now try the activities which will help you become familiar with the words and expand your vocabulary.
Crossword
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Crossword transcript
Questions
- an informative talk on a specific topic
- a section of a legal document which states a particular condition or agreement
- a writer
- relating to the mind
- relating to medicine or health
- relating to a system of government which makes central decisions for a union of states
- a general pattern of occurrence of events
- strong disagreement; war
- a person who has a high level of knowledge and experience about a specific topic
- to lessen in power, value or amount
- to be more or greater than a particular amount
- to give someone or something an ability to do something
- money paid for a service
- the amount of money made by a business
- official authorisation to do a controlled activity eg drive a car, sell alcohol
- created, produced or resulted in
- not agreed or allowed
- taken from one place to another
- many small parts added together to make a whole
- a period of time between two events
- the range and limits of a project, essay, research or lecture
- an ability to change, bend or move
- using one person or thing in place of another person or thing
- the amount that a container can hold, or the amount of work a person, machine or organisation can produce
- correct
- obvious, clearly shown
- able to do a particular thing
- exact
- the most important
- different but equal
Answers
- lecture
- clause
- author
- mental
- medical
- federal
- trend
- conflict
- expert
- decline
- exceed
- enable
- fees
- revenue
- licence
- generated
- rejected
- transported
- aggregate
- interval
- scope
- flexibility
- substitution
- capacity
- accurate
- explicit
- capable
- precise
- fundamental
- equivalent
Word forms
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Word forms transcript
Identify the correct word forms. Choose the correct noun, verb or adjective from the options inside the square brackets.
Word 1
- Noun: evolution
- Verb: [evolutionist, evolve, evolutionary]
- Adjective: [evolves, evolutionist, evolutionary]
Answer:
- Noun: evolution
- Verb: [evolve]
- Adjective: [evolutionary]
Word 2
- Noun: [style, stylish, stylises]
- Verb: stylise
- Adjective: [stylised, stylises, styles]
Answer:
- Noun: [style]
- Verb: stylise
- Adjective: [stylised]
Word 3
- Noun: liberalisation
- Verb: [liberator, liberal, liberalise]
- Adjective: [liberal, liberalism, liberally]
Answer:
- Noun: liberalisation
- Verb: [liberalise]
- Adjective: [liberal]
Word 4
- Noun: consultation
- Verb: [consult, consultant, consultancy]
- Adjective: [consultancy, consultative]
Answer:
- Noun: consultation
- Verb: [consult]
- Adjective: [consultative]
Word 5
- Noun: externalisation
- Verb: [external, externality, externalise]
- Adjective: [external, externality, externalise]
Answer:
- Noun: externalisation
- Verb: [externalise]
- Adjective: [external]
Word 6
- Noun: [expansion, expansive, expands]
- Verb: expands
- Adjective: [expansion, expanded, expands]
Answer:
- Noun: [expansion]
- Verb: expand
- Adjective: [expanded]
Word 7
- Noun: [symbolically, symbol, symbolise]
- Verb: [symbols, symbolise, symbolism]
- Adjective: symbolic
Answer:
- Noun: [symbol]
- Verb: [symbolise]
- Adjective: symbolic
Word practice
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Word practice transcript
Choose the best word in each sentence from the options inside the square brackets.
- [Whereas, hence] in the past computers were too expensive for many families, today's production techniques enable most households to afford a basic PC.
Answer: whereas
- Simply being [aware, discriminated] of an issue is not enough to motivate a person to attempt to solve it; rather they must feel that the issue directly affects them.
Answer: aware
- Tutors will use their [enforcement, discretion] in granting extensions for assignments.
Answer: discretion
- Employers are increasingly seeking graduates with a global [orientation, monitoring].
Answer: orientation
- Scientists have proven the importance of genetics in this area, and [furthermore, despite], shown that lifestyle is not a major factor, as once thought.
Answer: furthermore
- One difficulty of learning a language is understanding [index, abstract] concepts, which may have no direct translation in the learner's native tongue.
Answer: abstract
- Experts have warned of the effects of global warming for years; [nevertheless, preceding], most governments have not implemented any real change in policy.
Answer: nevertheless
- Following a spike in the [incidence, welfare] of the disease in the 1980s, funding was increased for scientists engaged in investigating the causes.
Answer: incidence
- The [input, ratio] of major stakeholders such as community groups, legal representatives and educators was sought when designing the framework.
Answer: input
- Once the information has entered the public [generation, domain], particularly through social networking media, it can be very hard to erase.
Answer: domain
- Students must display a thorough understanding of the [exceeding, underlying] principles and demonstrate that they can apply them in a variety of scenarios.
Answer: underlying
Guess the word
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Guess the word transcript
Guess the word that matches the list of synonyms. The number of letters is given as a clue.
- Synonyms: position, angle, placement
Hint: 11 letters
Answer: orientation
- Synonyms: occurrence, prevalence
Hint: 9 letters
Answer: incidence
- Synonyms: subordinate, secondary, minor
Hint: 10 letters
Answer: subsidiary
Test yourself
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Test yourself transcript
Choose the best word in each sentence from the options inside the square brackets.
- In a bid to find more [underlying, sustainable] types of engine fuel, the aviation industry is experimenting with the use of eucalypt trees in biofuel.
Answer: sustainable
- These measurements are [capable, accurate] to within one one-hundredth of a millimetre.
Answer: accurate
- This paper sets out to [challenge, draft] the current accepted approach by proposing a new design framework.
Answer: challenge
- The third [edit, edition, editor] of the book contains a revised section on the use of technology to support research in the area.
Answer: edition
5.Candidates will possess an [orientate, orientation, orientating ] to lifelong learning, demonstrated in their commitment to professional development.
Answer: orientation
- Industry placements are an integral part of the course, and [nevertheless, furthermore] often provide the most valuable outcomes for students.
Answer: furthermore
- There is often [conflicting, conflict, conflicted] between the desire to be environmentally friendly and the financial cost of ‘green’ products such as organic food.
Answer: conflict
- There is usually an [conflict, expansion] of around seven to eight years between the discovery of a vaccine and it being commercially available to the public.
Answer: conflict
- In [liberal, liberalise, liberalism] democratic societies, the role of the media in reporting on, criticising and to some extent shaping government policy is complex.
Answer: liberal
10.This paper aims to make an [expert, explicit] link between governmental policies of the last twenty years and the current rise in homelessness.
Answer: explicit
- The 50+ age group reported that they used the Internet for 30 minutes a day, [whereas, nevertheless] those aged 18-30 spent almost five times as long surfing the Web.
Answer: whereas
- The award is presented to the student with the best [federal, aggregate] performance in the final year of the program.
Answer: aggregate
- The [stability, perspective] of the compound at various temperatures was tested.
Answer: stability
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