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Academic Word List
Academic Word
List
Coxhead (2000). The most frequent
word in each family is in italics.
There are 570
headwords and about 3000
words altogether.
Headwords
abandon
Other
words in the family.
abandoned,
abandoning,
abandonment,
abandons,
e.g.
abstraction,
abstractions,
abstractly,
abstract
abstracts, e.g.
academia,
academic
,
academically,
academy
academics, academies, e.g.
accessed,
accesses,
accessibility,
access
accessible, accessing,
inaccessible
accommodated,
accommodates,
accommodate
accommodating
,
accommodation
accompanied
,
accompanies,
accompanying,
accompany
accompaniment,
unaccompanied
accumulate
accumulated,
accumulating,
accumulation,
accumulates
accurate
accuracy,
accurately,
inaccuracy,
inaccuracies,
inaccurate
achievable,
achieved,
achievement,
achieve
achievements, achieves,
achieving
acknowledged,
acknowledges,
acknowledgement,
acknowledge
acknowledging,
acknowledgements
acquire
acquired,
acquires,
acquiring,
acquisition
, acquisitions
adaptability,
adaptable,
adaptation,
adapt
adaptations, adapted, adapting,
adaptive,
adapts
adequate
adjacent
adequacy,
adequately,
inadequacies,
inadequacy,
inadequate, inadequately
adjusted,
adjusting,
adjusts,
adjustment,
readjust,
adjust
adjustments,
readjusted,
readjusting,
readjustment,
readjustments, readjusts
administrates,
administrate
administrations,
administratively,
administrators
adult
advocate
adulthood,
adults
advocacy,
advocating
administration,
administrative,
administrator,
advocated,
advocates,
affect
affected, affecting, affective,
affectively,
affects, unaffected
aggregated,
aggregates,
aggregating,
aggregation
aided, aiding, aids, unaided
allocated,
allocates,
allocating,
aggregate
aid
albeit
allocate
allocation,
allocations
alterable,
alteration,
alterations,
altered,
alter
altering,
alternate,
alternating,
alters,
unalterable, unaltered
alternative
ambiguous
alternatively, alternatives
ambiguities,
ambiguity,
unambiguous,
unambiguously
amend
analogy
amended,
amending,
amendment,
amendments, amends
analogies,
analogous
analysed,
analyser,
analysers,
analyses,
analyse
analysing,
analysis
,
analyst,
analysts,
analytic, analytical,
analytically
annual
anticipate
apparent
append
annually
anticipated,
anticipates,
anticipating,
anticipation, unanticipated
apparently
appendix
,
appended,
appends,
appending, appendices,
appendixes
appreciable,
appreciably,
appreciated,
appreciate
appreciates,
appreciating,
appreciation,
unappreciated
approach
approachable,
approached,
approaches,
approaching,
unapproachable
appropriacy,
appropriateness,
appropriately,
inappropriacy,
appropriate
inappropriate,
inappropriately
approximated
,
approximate
approximates,
approximately,
approximating,
approximation,
approximations
arbitrary
area
aspect
assemble
arbitrariness, arbitrarily
areas
aspects
assembled,
assembles,
assemblies,
assembling,
assembly
assessable, assessed, assesses,
assessing,
assess
assessment
,
unassessed
assigned,
assessments,
reassess,
reassessed,
reassessing,
reassessment,
assigning,
assigns,
reassigning,
assignment,
reassign,
reassigns,
assign
assignments,
reassigned,
unassigned
assist
assume
assistance,
assistant,
assistants, assisted,
assisting,
assists, unassisted
assumed,
assumes,
assuming,
assumption, assumptions
assure
assurance
,
assurances,
assured,
assuredly, assures, assuring
attached,
attaches,
attaching,
attach
attachment, attachments,
unattached
attainable,
attained
,
attainments,
attaining,
attains,
attain
attainment,
unattainable
attitude
attribute
author
authority
automate
available
aware
behalf
benefit
attitudes
attributable,
attributed,
attributes,
attributing,
attribution
authored,
authoring, authors, authorship
, authoritative, authorities
automatic,
automated,
automates,
automating,
automatically
,
automation
availability,
unavailable
awareness,
unaware
beneficial,
beneficiary,
beneficiaries,
benefited,
benefiting, benefits
bias
bond
brief
bulk
capable
capacity
biased,
biases, biasing, unbiased
bonded, bonding, bonds
brevity, briefed, briefing, briefly,
briefs
bulky
capabilities, capability,
incapable
capacities,
incapacitate, incapacitated
categories
,
categorisation,
categorise,
category
categorised,
categorises,
categorising,
categorizing
cease
challenge
channel
chapter
chart
chemical
circumstance
cite
ceased,
ceaseless,
ceases
,
ceasing
challenged,
challenger,
challengers,
challenges, challenging
channelled, channelling,
channels
chapters
charted, charting, charts,
uncharted
chemically,
chemicals
circumstances
citation, citations,
cited,
citing,
cites
civil
clarify
classic
clause
code
coherent
clarification,
clarified,
clarifies,
clarifying,
clarity
classical,
classics
clauses
coded, codes, coding
coherence
,
incoherently
coincided,
coincides,
coinciding,
coherently,
incoherent,
coincide
coincidence,
coincidences,
coincident,
coincidental
collapse
colleague
collapsed,
collapsing
colleagues
commenced
,
collapses,
collapsible,
commences,
commencing,
recommenced,
commence
commencement,
recommences,
recommencing
comment
commentaries,
commentator,
commentary,
commentators,
commented, commenting,
comments
commissioned,
commission
commissioners,
commissions
commit
commodity
commitment,
commitments,
commits,
committed, committing
commodities
communicable,
communicates,
communicate
communication
,
communicative,
uncommunicative
community
compatible
communities
compatibility,
incompatible
compensated,
compensate
compensating,
compensates,
compensation
,
incompatibility,
communicated,
communicating,
communications,
communicatively,
commissioner,
commissioning,
compensations, compensatory
compile
compilation,
compilations,
compiled
,
compiles, compiling
complement
complex
component
compound
complementary,
complemented,
complementing, complements
complexities, complexity
componentry,
components
compounded, compounding,
compounds
comprehensive
comprehensively
comprise
comprised, comprises,
comprising
computation,
compute
computational,
computations,
computable,
computer
,
computed,
computerised,
computers,
computing
conceivable,
conceivably,
conceived
,
conceive
conceives,
conceiving,
inconceivable,
inconceivably
concentrate
concentrated,
concentrates,
concentrating,
concentration
conception,
concepts,
conceptual,
conceptualise,
conceptualises,
concept
conceptualisation,
conceptualised,
conceptualising, conceptually
concluded,
conclude
conclusively,
concludes,
concluding,
inconclusive,
conclusion
,
conclusions,
conclusive,
inconclusively
concurrent
conduct
confer
concurrently
conducted, conducting,
conducts
conference,
conferences,
conferred,
conferring, confers
confined
,
unconfined
confirmation,
confirmed,
confirming,
confirms
conflicted, conflicting,
conflicts
conformable,
conformability,
confines,
confining,
confine
confirm
conflict
conformance, conformation, conformed,
conforming,
conformist,
conformists,
conform
conformity
,
conforms,
nonconformist,
nonconformists,
non-
conformist,
non-conformity
nonconformity,
non-
conformists,
consent
consensus,
consents
consequence,
consequently
considerably
consisted,
consented,
consenting,
consequent
considerable
consequences
,
consistency,
consisting,
consistent
,
consists,
consist
consistently,
inconsistencies,
inconsistent
inconsistency,
constant
constancy,
constantly,
constants,
inconstancy,
inconstantly
constituencies,
constituency,
constituent,
constituents,
constituted,
constitute
constitutes,
constituting,
constitution,
constitutions,
constitutionally,
unconstitutional
constrain
construct
constrained,
constraining,
constrains,
constraint,
constraints
,
unconstrained
constructed,
constructing,
construction
,
constitutional
,
constitutive,
constructions,
constructive,
constructs,
reconstruct,
reconstructing,
reconstructs
consultancy,
consultant,
consultants,
consult
consultation,
consultative,
consulting
consume
consumed,
consumer,
consumers,
consultations,
consulted,
consults,
reconstructed,
reconstruction,
consumes,
consuming, consumption
contactable,
contacts
contacted,
contacting,
contact
contemporary
contemporaries
contexts,
context
contextual,
contextualise,
contextualising,
contextualised,
uncontextualised
contract
contracted,
contracting,
contractor,
contractors,
contracts
contradicted,
contradiction
,
contradicting,
contradictions,
contradict
contradictory, contradicts
contrary
contrast
contrarily
contrasted,
contrasts
contributed,
contributes,
contributing,
contribute
contribution
,
contributions,
contributor,
contributors
controversy
controversies,
controversial,
contrasting,
contrastive,
controversially,
uncontroversial
convention
,
convenes,
convened,
conventional,
conventions,
convene
convening,
conventionally,
unconventional
converse
convert
conversely
conversion,
conversions,
converted,
convertible, converting,
converts
convinced
,
convinces,
convincing,
convince
convincingly, unconvinced
cooperated,
cooperates,
cooperating,
cooperation,
cooperative,
cooperatively,
cooperate
co-
operate,
co-operated,
co-
operates,
co-operation,
co-
operatively
coordinated,
coordinates,
coordinating,
coordination
,
coordinator,
coordinators,
coordinate
co-
ordinate,
co-ordinated,
co-
ordinates,
co-ordinating,
co-ordination,
co-ordinator,
co-ordinators
core
corporate
cores,
coring, cored
corporates,
corporation, corporations
corresponded,
correspond
corresponding
,
corresponds
couple
coupled,
coupling, couples
created,
creates,
creating,
creation,
create
creations, creative, creatively,
creativity,
creator,
creators,
recreate,
recreated,
recreates,
recreating
credit
credited,
crediting,
creditor,
creditors,
credits
correspondence,
correspondingly,
co-
operative,
criteria
crucial
culture
currency
cycle
data
debate
decade
decline
deduce
criterion
crucially
cultural,
culturally,
cultured,
cultures,
uncultured
currencies
cycled, cycles, cyclic, cyclical,
cycling
debatable, debated, debates,
debating
decades
declined, declines,
declining
deduced,
deduces,
deducing,
deduction
,
deductions
definable,
defined,
defines,
defining,
define
definition
,
redefined,
undefined
definitions,
redefines,
redefine,
redefining,
definite
demonstrate
definitely,
indefinitely
demonstrable,
definitive,
indefinite,
demonstrably,
demonstrated,
demonstrating,
demonstrations,
demonstratively,
demonstrators
denote
denotation,
demonstrates,
demonstration,
demonstrative,
demonstrator,
denotations,
denoted,
denotes, denoting
deniable, denial, denials, denied,
denies,
denying, undeniable
depressed,
depression
derivation,
derivations,
derivative,
depresses,
depressing,
deny
depress
derive
derivatives,
derived
, derives,
deriving
designed,
designer,
designers,
design
despite
designing, designs
detectable,
detected
,
detecting,
detect
detection, detective, detectives,
detector,
detectors, detects
deviate
deviated,
deviates,
deviating,
deviation
,
deviations
device
devote
devices
devoted
,
devotedly,
devotes,
devoting,
devotion,
devotions
differentiated,
differentiates,
differentiate
differentiating,
differentiation
dimensional,
multidimensional
diminished
,
diminishes,
diminishing,
diminution, undiminished
discretely,
discretion,
discretionary,
dimensions,
dimension
diminish
discrete
indiscrete, indiscretion
discriminated,
discriminates,
discriminate
discriminating,
discrimination
displaced,
displacing
displayed, displaying,
displays
disposable,
disposal,
disposed,
disposes,
disposing
distinction
,
distinctions,
distinctive,
displacement
,
displaces,
displace
display
dispose
distinct
distinctively,
indistinctly
distort
distorted
,
distinctly,
indistinct,
distorting
,
distortion,
distortions,
distorts
distributed,
distributing,
distribution,
distributional, distributions,
distributive,
distribute
distributor,
distributors,
redistribute,
redistributed,
redistributes,
redistributing,
redistribution
diversely,
diversification,
diversified,
diverse
diversifies,
diversity
diversify,
diversifying,
document
domain
domestic
documentation,
documenting,
documents
domains
domestically,
documented,
domesticate,
domesticated,
domesticating, domestics
dominance,
dominant
,
dominated,
dominate
draft
dominates,
dominating, domination
drafted,
drafting,
drafts,
redraft,
redrafted, redrafting,
redrafts
dramas,
dramatise,
drama
dramatises,
dramatization,
dramatizing
duration
dynamic
dynamically,
dynamics
economic
,
economical,
economically,
economy
economics,
economies,
economist,
economists,
uneconomical
edit
element
eliminate
edited,
editing,
edition,
editions,
editor,
editorial, editorials, editors,
edits
elements
eliminated,
elimination
emerged,
emergence,
emergent,
eliminates,
eliminating,
dramatic
,
dramatised,
dramatically,
dramatising,
dramatisation,
dramatizations,
dramatisations,
dramatist,
dramatists,
emerge
emphasis
emerges,
emerging
emphasise,
emphasised,
emphasising,
emphatic, emphatically
empirical
enable
encounter
energy
enforce
empirically, empiricism
enabled, enables, enabling
encountered,
encountering,
encounters
energetic,
energetically, energies
enforced,
enforcing
enhanced,
enhancing
enormity, enormously
ensured, ensures, ensuring
entities
environmental,
environment
environmentalists,
environments
equate
equip
equivalent
equated,
equates,
equating,
equation
,
equations
equipment,
equipped,
equipping, equips
equivalence
environmentalist,
environmentally,
enhancement,
enhances,
enforcement,
enforces,
enhance
enormous
ensure
entity
erode
error
eroded,
erodes, eroding,
erosion
erroneous, erroneously,
errors
disestablish,
disestablishes,
disestablished,
disestablishing,
established
,
establish
disestablishment,
establishments
establishes,
establishing,
establishment,
estate
estates
estimated,
overestimate,
overestimates,
underestimate,
estimates,
estimating,
overestimated,
overestimating,
underestimated,
estimation,
estimations,
over-estimate,
estimate
underestimates,
underestimating
ethic
ethnic
ethical
, ethically, ethics,
unethical
ethnicity
evaluated,
evaluate
evaluation,
evaluates,
evaluations,
evaluating,
evaluative,
re-evaluate,
re-evaluated,
re-evaluates,
re-evaluating,
re-evaluation
eventual
evident
eventuality,
eventually
evidenced,
evidently
evolution
,
evolved,
evolving,
evolves,
evolutionary,
evolutionist, evolutionists
exceeded, exceeding, exceeds
excluded
,
excludes,
excluding,
evidence
,
evidential,
evolve
exceed
exclude
exclusion,
exclusionary,
exclusionist,
exclusions,
exclusive, exclusively
exhibit
exhibited,
exhibiting,
exhibition,
exhibitions,
exhibits
expanded,
expanding,
expands,
expand
expert
explicit
exploit
expansion,
expansionism,
expansive
expertise,
expertly, experts
explicitly
exploitation,
exploits
exported, exporter, exporters,
exporting,
exports
exposed,
exposes,
exposing,
exposure,
exploited,
exploiting,
export
expose
exposures
externalisation,
external
externality
extract
extracted, extracting, extraction,
extracts
facilitated,
facilitate
facilitating,
facilitates,
facilitation,
facilities,
facilitator,
externalise,
externalised,
externalises,
externalising,
facilitators,
facility
factor
feature
federal
fee
file
final
factored,
factoring,
factors
featured,
features,
featuring
federation,
federations
fees
filed, files, filing
finalise,
finalised,
finalises,
finalising,
finality, finally, finals
financed, finances,
financial
, financially,
financier, financiers,
financing
infinite,
infinitely
flexibility,
inflexible,
inflexibility
finance
finite
flexible
fluctuate
fluctuated,
fluctuates,
fluctuating,
fluctuation,
fluctuations
focused,
focuses,
focusing,
refocus,
refocused, refocuses,
refocusing
formatted,
formatting, formats
formulae,
formulas,
formulate,
focus
format
formulated,
formulating,
formulation,
formula
formulations, reformulate,
reformulated,
reformulating,
reformulations
forthcoming
found
foundation
framework
function
fund
fundamental
furthermore
founded
,
founder,
founders,
founding,
unfounded
foundations
frameworks
functional,
functionally,
functioned,
functioning,
functions
funded, funder,
funders, funding,
funds
fundamentally
reformulation,
gender
generate
generation
globe
goal
grade
grant
guarantee
guideline
hence
hierarchy
highlight
genders
generated,
generates,
generating
generations
global
,
globally,
globalisation,
globalization
goals
graded,
grades, grading
granted
, granting,
grants
guaranteed,
guaranteeing, guarantees
guidelines
hierarchical,
hierarchies
highlighted,
highlighting,
highlights
hypotheses,
hypothesise,
hypothesised,
hypothesis
hypothesises,
hypothesising,
hypothetical, hypothetically
identical
identify
identically
identifiable,
identification,
identified
,
identifies,
identifying,
identities,
identity,
unidentifiable
ideology
ignorant
ideological, ideologically,
ideologies
ignorance,
ignore,
ignored,
ignores,
ignoring
illustrated
,
illustrates,
illustrating,
illustrate
image
immigrate
impact
implement
illustration, illustrations,
illustrative
imagery,
images
immigrant,
immigrants,
immigrated,
immigrates, immigrating,
immigration
impacted, impacting, impacts
implementation
,
implemented,
implementing,
implements
implicated,
implicates,
implicating,
implicate
implicit
imply
impose
incentive
incidence
implication,
implications
implicitly
implied,
implies
,
implying
imposed
,
imposes, imposing, imposition
incentives
incident
,
incidentally, incidents