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

Assess derive-(from) involves

assessable derivation involving
assessed derivations uninvolved
assesses derivative issue
assessing derivatives issued
assessment derived issues
assessments derives issuing
reassess deriving
reassessed major
reassessing establish majorities
reassessment disestablish majority
unassessed disestablished
disestablishes structure
benefit disestablishing restructure
beneficial disestablishment restructured
beneficiary established restructures
beneficiaries establishes restructuring
benefited establishing structural
benefiting establishment structurally
benefits establishments structured
structures
concept factor structuring
conception factored unstructured
concepts factoring
conceptual factors
conceptualisation
conceptualise finance
conceptualised financed
conceptualises finances
conceptualising financial
conceptually financially
financier
consist (of) financiers
consisted financing
consistency
consistent function
consistently functional
consisting functionally
consists functioned
inconsistencies functioning
inconsistency functions
inconsistent
contract income
contracted incomes
contracting
contractor involve
contractors involved
contracts involvement

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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

academy challenging enabling

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

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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

abstract authored diversely

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

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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

adapt conversions equipment

adaptability converted equipped
adaptable convertible equipping
adaptation converting equips
adaptations converts extract
adapted couple extracted
adapting coupled extracting
adaptive coupling extraction
adapts couples extracts
adult decade file
adulthood decades filed
adults definite files
advocate definitely filing
advocacy definitive finite
advocated indefinite infinite
advocates indefinitely infinitely
advocating deny foundation
aid deniable foundations
aided denial globe
aiding denials global
aids denied globally
unaided denies globalisation
channel denying globalization
channelled undeniable grade
channelling differentiate graded
channels differentiated grades
chemical differentiates grading
chemically differentiating guarantee
chemicals differentiation guaranteed
classic dispose guaranteeing
classical disposable guarantees
classics disposal hierarchy
comprehensive disposed hierarchical
comprehensively disposes hierarchies
comprise disposing identical
comprised dynamic identically
comprises dynamically ideology
comprising dynamics ideological
confirm eliminate ideologically
confirmation eliminated ideologies
confirmed eliminates infer
confirming eliminating inference
confirms elimination inferences
contrary empirical inferred
contrarily empirically inferring
convert empiricism infers
conversion equip innovate

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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

abandon charted denote

abandoned charting denotation
abandoning charts denotations
abandonment uncharted denoted
abandons clarify denotes
accompany clarification denoting
accompanied clarified detect
accompanies clarifies detectable
accompaniment clarifying detected
accompanying clarity detecting
unaccompanied commodity detection
accumulate commodities detective
accumulated complement detectives
accumulating complementary detector
accumulation complemented detectors
accumulates complementing detects
append complements deviate
appendix conform deviated
appended conformable deviates
appends conformability deviating
appending conformance deviation
appendices conformation deviations
appendixes conformed displace
appreciate conforming displaced
appreciable conformist displacement
appreciably conformists displaces
appreciated conformity displacing
appreciates conforms drama
appreciating nonconformist dramas
appreciation nonconformists dramatic
unappreciated nonconformity dramatically
arbitrary non-conformist dramatise
arbitrariness non-conformists dramatised
arbitrarily non-conformity dramatising
automate contemporary dramatises
automatic contemporaries dramatisation
automated contradict dramatisations
automates contradicted dramatist
automating contradicting dramatists
automatically contradiction dramatization
automation contradictions dramatizations
bias contradictory dramatize
biased contradicts dramatized
biases crucial dramatizes
biasing crucially dramatizing
unbiased currency eventual
chart currencies eventuality

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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

adjacent forthcoming whereby

albeit incline
assemble inclination
assembled inclinations
assembles inclined
assemblies inclines
assembling inclining
assembly integrity
collapse intrinsic
collapsed intrinsically
collapses invoke
collapsible invoked
collapsing invokes
colleague invoking
colleagues levy
compile levies
compilation likewise
compilations nonetheless
compiled notwithstanding
compiles odd
compiling odds
conceive ongoing
conceivable panel
conceivably panelled
conceived panelling
conceives panels
conceiving persist
inconceivable persisted
inconceivably persistence
convince persistent
convinced persistently
convinces persisting
convincing persists
convincingly pose
unconvinced posed
depress poses
depressed posing
depresses reluctance
depressing reluctant
depression reluctantly
encounter so-called
encountered straightforward
encountering undergo
encounters undergoes
enormous undergoing
enormity undergone
enormously underwent

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