Sublists of the Academic Word List Each word in italics is the most frequently occurring member cf the word family in the Academic Corpus. For example anal- _ysisis the most common form ofthe word familyanalyse. British and American spelling is included in the word families, so ‘comtextualise and contextualize are both included inthe familycontext, ‘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 sublis, except for sublist 10 which has 30. Sublist 1 of the Academic Word List analyse constituent economy analysed fonatents economic ‘nalser ‘ented economia analysers const fectomicaly ‘analyses consttaing economies ‘naling ‘onston ‘canomies nals tensions economist analyst ‘ensutional economists ‘nals ‘cast tecnica ‘naive ‘onsttuve cervnonment ‘alta ticenstitional "emironmenta ‘nally content eronmentalist ‘analyze contexts "irene analeed ‘cesta fwronmentally ‘nalees Contexts ‘cmtonments ‘natyang fenextaled establish approach Contents appeoadable imental ppraad fenextalize apprcaces omental tdsetablsing approaching fomextalang tdsestalsment Itaproathable tneontestualzed ‘stabished area contract, ‘staishes eas contacted estabisting assess fonacting ‘stalsiment assessable ‘cnitacor stale reseed Contacts estimate estes ‘onitacs estimated sessing crete tstimates ‘assesment cated estimating ‘xsesoments ‘eats ‘simation ress, ‘eating ‘stimatons reamed ‘eatin ‘verestimate reams ‘reaions ‘overestimate Feassessment ‘reatve ‘eestimated tins Creatively ‘reresimats ‘assume ‘reatwty ‘verestating assumed ‘rear Underesimate srsmes ‘reatrs Uinerestimated saiming recreate Uinetestimats ‘sumption recreated linderesimating ‘sumptions recteates ident ‘authority recreating evidenced authoritaive ata evidence suthorties ‘etne ‘dential te cette eden ara sine export bene ete tines corte eft ning exporter bene gui exporters ary ‘eters ‘exporting Tree ines redeline ‘expos hreneted Fedele factor Feneti redelnes factored Tenet rei feting concept tdetine jars conception eve finance once Aeivation Financed conceptual erations Finances nceptualsation Menvatve ina Conceptual eves manly conceptualised derived financier Concepts Cet Financiers concen disrtune 2" min ‘onceptally tribute fon consist ésributed formulae consisted ‘isinbuting fonmolas ‘eosistency ‘astnbution formulate onsient ‘dsinhational Fecmlated ‘omstently ‘isis fecmalating ‘onssting tisinbutive formulation fons ‘site fermiltions Inconstencis| ‘isiautors reformulate Incenssteny redstbute Feloriate inconsistent redstbuted Feformulating constitute redsiaftes Fetormaion ‘constituencies redstbutig Feforulations ‘conten redoJunction iesaiy respondents functional Heeally responding Tunctonally legality responds finctone legally response Tinctioning lelate responses functions legilated Fesponsive identity legates responsiveness ientnable Fegslating Unresponsive entiation legion role denied leave rales dents feaslator section raenttying Teslators sectioned iaennttes Festature Sectioning identity major Stone - 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Iadonally Iraditons transferable Transference Nransterted Transferring transfers text tvansier ‘omespond ccespndingly ‘orespunds citeria ctiterion deuce Aeduced det ha deduction fection demonsvate “demonstrable ‘dsmonstaby ‘demenstated ‘dmonstates ‘dmmonstrating demonstration fdemenstaons ‘iemonstative ‘deronstainey ‘lronstatoe ‘demonstrators document dcuentaion Acumen tlecareting fdeuments dominate ee ‘do dinate flnmnats Saninaing ‘leination emphasis emphasive emphasised emphasingexclude Feamesor fund itstate immigrate imply initio instance interact istily layer Tink emphasie phased emphases nhac mba ensued fesurng exdued sts xg eso sain exduse eae Frameworks tundes finer fis sine usted Mates stating Mhsration Hhssrations istrative inet immgans inmate cmgats inating inmate implied implies Impling iniiay instances interacted Interacting Interaction Interactions Intestine Intractvely nals justia tusitaly lustiation iusticatons sted hustes stn tne layered layering layers fn tins Ike tints located Tocaing toca loalons fete rey mae eo ait maaan ra man iis ker wae regati net ra ny fea nae oatome outcome pte ve Pine shies fas rhs risa Hoses pphilosophising Fisted Hoses pissing, ysl ps physically proportion ispneetion igoporbonale tigroperonatey rept treatin Prepotonte Preprtonately ejections published she pubes fubing thie reacted fea. reading reaction reactionaries reactionary reac reactive reactivate reactivation feacte reactrs ree reser dere sven deepen ‘ight pst, ree reesaon reliability Feliale Fela teliance reliant rated tees retin, Unteable remoable rea femoed remo, scheme herati Scheataly Sheed Sthees Shing SN ec Sequences Senta ssqntaly Seal Seuatiy Soualy sites Shining shits sec shift spe spect ees tigated sufcen " sutidengy task technical Tecnologia technalopcally ait invaiiy validate Yaldated Validating Validation vali vali volume volumes volSublist 4 of the Academic Word List acces accessed eeselily cess a adequate adequacy ‘adequately inadequaces 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Stimmarsng Stimmarisaten Summarkations| Summation Summarzations| summarized Summarizing undertake undertaken Undertake tneriaking Uinertok Sublist 5 of the Academic Word List academy acatenig Signa Semicaty wakes sates, ante sisting ‘hitment ‘stents ast fxs reads reas teas readsimets is alterable ‘Meeaion Alterations aed ering ‘Memate lesnating alters tnaleable tinal ae dimendment Siemens Simons aust alter amend capacity ‘anactes incapacitate incapactated dalenge halen ‘halen ‘halla ‘allen tallengng dase yas om cep ‘compounds confit ote ‘cating ‘ents cost nn conan ‘Snail ‘onsifonts ‘onsiation consltaions ‘one ‘onl ‘cning contact contactale ‘ontaced feontacting conta dedine ‘ecined ecnes ‘esning disc ectn tena indiscrete " iasttn Artie fiating ‘rats redrat redatied redttting veda sete draft enabled enables enabling rata nurses sae enforces enforcing enforce cntity se ts equivalent cuvaence cvohe evolution ‘raked ‘oding ces ‘vlitonary ‘lutions ‘lutions expand expanded fepanding exposing expose exposes cexeralisation fexemalise fexeraled exiemalses extemal, ‘erally ‘steralzton| ‘extemal fexteralzed fexemales fexeralaing, fenteraly Jct tata is external tis faaltating fi etn boats fey Jandumentah names ace BOS eencrted Eoaate Senatng seeration eneratons image magery images Iiberat licence licences Tense Tense Tens,ga este Ce on “ illogical ee i npaeive ip ines tr mat bey vin ee pe won puss wer pkey a, ches a pw ve kee mn pursuit” ‘modify . arsuits rit vi mots rome iced leis teen voit es ree Sn aie son =n rms Ge sat rac ae aoe ae i ie ioe ie a ae oa ie ei ay sa oi sae oe Pe 2 omen sat ne ae thew i Sublist 6 of the Academic Word List ss ri ses ey stat tenses cnt vn wong seek ee, pee stot wales Anowledged author se “es acknowledging authoring sce =e Sah a caro ra — kei ga ka =n wi sat tei aot tt at ee stan oe ee en ws in cei ome oat Sis Sah substitute substituted Sututes Sutin substition sustain sustainable Sista “ustained Susaining Sisains Sistenance tisisamable fees ai as ne target transit Iransited ranting tiamstion Mranstonal Transtions arson transis Trends tend wie wit ited ‘cing ses cooperate ‘cooperated Coopeates ‘cooperating Ccopeaton faperatve operatively oaperate Cooperated Coopatates Coaperation Cooperative \ ‘cooperatively siseiminate ‘isceiminated ‘isciinates ‘iscminating earimination 4 oan tae oo displaydomain state exceed expert explicit, federal fee feible domains aie ating citon shtons ior itil eitonils eaters wis enhanced enhancement enhances fenanang, estas ciecine exceeds expec eer eter cxplily federation Feeratiens fees esi { flexible ety furthermore sender Hanorant incentive incidence imorance ‘ne fines ‘rin, inceives incident inca inaients Incceporate index inate input ‘nconporated incorporates incorporating incorporation indeed ines inden iia ina "nO aos inate intated Insts Initing aon intiaions Inave Iniatves Inter intaors inputs Intentions insrutve Insictor Irsictrs ists eligent neligone gent tng interval imtenals lecture Fectred lecturer Fecturets Feces Tecan Imigsate igant mira migrated migates Imigeating migration Imgations ee mini ministered mninstern nists Ininisties motive motivate rmatoted Inatvtes Imatvaing ‘maitvation matvations Imatves Uinmotiated neutral etalon rretase reutaied reales hut, neutaliy reutalization hretalie hreutaliaed rears retain, neverthles recede preceded fresdence bret prec receding Imprecedened Presume presumably presumed resumes presiming presumption presumptions Presmpious saionat inational rallonalsation Fatonlfsations Fatlenalie Fatlonased sty tape te transform tuansport underlie lise rationales Fatenalsing fationalsm Fallen Fallon ation Fatonalizaticns Fatlonalize Fatenalied Fatonaies rationally reconerble reanera Fecimeing, Feces reeery seven revealing Feveas revelation revelations subsidiany Sites Stic Suis Stidies Sting Side Sided Sues Susan taped taps taping traceable Mae Traces racing transformation transformations Transformed Htanstorming, Trantor transpertaton Iransported Iransprter Iranspartrs tindering uilistion tise Ulises tiling tls ttlisers it Utlized titles wlan10 Sublist 7 of the Academic Word List adapt aptly alepiable ‘adaptation ‘iaptations apie’ ‘napting ‘apne ‘apis aluthood ‘adults advocate aalcacy Socata vocals Svecating aul od aide sing aid tad channelled ‘anne ‘ann chemical enicaly ‘hemi ‘channel asic easical sti comprehensive Compeciensvely comprise comprised ‘comprising confirmation angie ‘antes contary contraty confirm convert ‘omer Comrie comvating ‘caver couple ‘cit expe decades Aefsitely ‘ete indefinite Indetitely decale defite undeniable itferentat ilercotted tilerentiates Uilerentiaing ‘diferentiation dispel sposal Usposed fisposes disposing Hisose dynamic eliminate liminated ‘mina ‘iminaing , siinsn empirical ential mpi SP equipment cupped swung caus etvact le inte ” infinite sn" foun MM eundations lobe soba! joa atten ‘Sobavatin sraed Bade Bang strane isan sire hierarchy ™ frrhicl icant iter identical wesley ick 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‘scamiiaon sigwust™t8 ambiguous mbites may tate spe tei Sipe pening Sees Spends anpreciate PP appreciate sppreably Sppecated appeals nore treated bia ° aeiarness stay alemate automatic Sioa Snemats Mtamating ‘toma sitomstion append ta tnd chart dani darian ‘lated ‘tates da commndiy comme conform conformable ‘entra ‘onlormance ‘eonlormaton ‘contre ‘cleans Conforms fonformss ‘anformity ‘enlorms. honconemist noncnfamts oncom Roneontormist Notrontormits foontormiy contemporary ‘Ctempoares contact, envcial ‘eurency denore detect deviate isplace tama exhibit elit auidtine hittin implicit induce 1 contacted ‘oniracting ‘contradiion fonitations foniaticony ‘onic cruially Aenotation tnotations ‘denoted tenotes, denoting etectable detected ‘detecting fetetion teteve tetecnes tetecor tetectors tet deviated erate ine, devon dbottons lad Sac plang dramas rama, ramalically tiamaise tlamatised teamatiing tamales, tleamalsation lamin ‘ama famatss ‘iamalization ‘iamatizations tamale tamale tamales 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mia tai rnimaly mutual mutually ‘overlapped ‘repping ‘elas pasively passty petions preliminary overlap passive portion protoco! rota att ie ‘qualitalinely vefine retined Fetinernent Felnements Felines retning relaxation relaxed Fels relaing restrain resrained resraning restains restraint restraints tinea revolution revolutionary revolutionaries Fevollionse Fevoitionised Fevoitionses Fevollienising Fevcutionst Fevolulinss Fevoltionize Fevoltienied Fevolutonies revolutionizingcom sh roates roating visi sphere sph Spec Splerialy subordinate ‘subordinates seneaberation supplement “ppementay Suppleenting 3 ‘Sublist 10 of the Academic Word List anjicent ‘tbe ‘semble asebld ebies isembling ‘sembh ce i ee collapsing colleague est calleaguues comgilation ‘empations ‘comple ipl comping conecinale ‘neeably ‘once inconceeable ince ceavince comsinced ‘mincing ‘envincgy tmcanind ees spree resin covounte encountered Srounteng sncountes enor ormoy foun colapse compile depress indnation Incinabons 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