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FASTRACK IELTS | IELTS ACADEMIC WORD LIST

IELTS
ACADEMIC
WORD LIST

By Asiya Miart
Fastrack Education
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*Click on a word to see its definition in Oxford Learner’s Dictionary

analyse conceptually

analysis consist

analyst consistency

analytic consistent

analytical consistently

analytically constituency

analyze constituent

approach constitute

approachable constitution

area constitutional

assess constitutionally

assessable constitutive

assessment context

assume contextual

assumed contextualize

assuming contract

assumption contractor

authoritative create

authority creation

availability creative

available creatively

beneficial creator

beneficiary data

benefit definable

concept define

conception definition

conceptual derivation
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derivative evidently

derive export

disestablish exporter

disestablishment factor

dissimilar finance

distribute financial

distribution financially

distributional financier

distributive formula

distributor formulate

economic formulation

economical function

economically functional

economics functionally

economist identifiable

economy identification

environment identify

environmental identity

environmentalist illegal

environmentally illegality

establish illegally

established income

establishment inconsistency

estimate inconsistent

estimation indicate

evidence indication

evident indicative

evidential indicator

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individual methodological

individualism methodology

individualist misinterpret

individuality misinterpretation

individually occur

insignificant occurrence

interpret overestimate

interpretation percentage

interpretative period

invariable periodic

invariably periodical

involve periodically

involved policy

involvement principle

issue principled

labour procedural

legal procedure

legality proceed

legally proceeding

legislate proceeds

legislation processing

legislative reassess

legislator reassessment

legislature recreate

major redefine

majority redistribute

method redistribution

methodical reformulate

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reformulation significantly

reinterpret signify

reinterpretation similar

reoccur similarity

require similarly

requirement source

research specific

researcher specifically

respond specification

respondent specificity

response specifics

responsive structural

restructure structurally

restructuring structure

sector

significance

significant

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SECTION 2
abnormal complexity

abnormally computable

achievable computation

achieve computational

achievement compute

acquire computer

acquisition computing

administration conclude

administrative conclusion

administratively conclusive

administrator conclusively

affect conduct

affective consequence

affectively consequent

appropriate consequently

appropriately construct

aspect construction

assist constructive

assistance consume

assistant consumer

categorization consumption

category credit

chapter creditor

commission cultural

commissioner culturally

community culture

complex cultured
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deregulation insecure

design institute

designer institution

distinct institutional

distinction institutionalized

distinctive institutionally

distinctively invest

distinctly investment

element investor

equate irrelevance

equation irrelevant

evaluate item

evaluation journal

feature maintain

final maintenance

finality non-traditional

finalize normal

finally normality

focus normalization

impact normalize

inappropriate normally

inconclusive obtain

inconclusively obtainable

indistinct participant

indistinctly participate

injure participation

injured participatory

injury perceive

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perception relevant

positive reside

positively residence

potential resident

potentially residential

previous resource

previously resourceful

primarily restrict

primary restricted

purchase restriction

purchaser restrictive

purchasing restrictively

range secure

reconstruct securely

reconstruction security

re-evaluate seek

re-evaluation select

refocus selection

region selective

regional selectively

regionally selector

regulate site

regulation sought

regulator strategic

regulatory strategically

reinvest strategist

reinvestment strategy

relevance survey

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text unaffected

textual unassisted

tradition uncultured

traditional under-resourced

traditionalist uninjured

traditionally unobtainable

transfer unregulated

transferable unrestricted

transference

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alternative coordinate

alternatively coordination

circumstance core

comment corporate

commentary corporation

commentator correspond

compensate correspondence

compensation corresponding

compensatory correspondingly

component criterion

consensus deduce

consent deduction

considerable demonstrable

considerably demonstrably

constancy demonstrate

constant demonstration

constantly demonstrative

constrain demonstratively

constraint demonstrator

contribute disproportion

contribution disproportionate

contributor disproportionately

convene document

convention documentation

conventional dominance

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dominant instance

dominate insufficient

domination insufficiently

emphasis interact

emphasize interaction

emphatic interactive

emphatically interactively

ensure invalidate

exclude invalidity

excluding justifiable

exclusion justifiably

exclusionary justification

exclusive justified

exclusively justify

framework layer

fund link

funder linkage

funding locate

illustrate located

illustration location

illustrative max

immigrant maximization

immigrate maximize

immigration maximum

imply minor

inconstancy minority

initial negate

initially negative

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negatively registration

outcome reliability

partner reliable

partnership reliance

philosopher reliant

philosophical relocate

philosophically relocation

philosophize rely

philosophizing removable

philosophy removal

physical remove

physically schematic

proportion schematically

proportional scheme

proportionally sequence

proportionate sequential

proportionately sequentially

publish sex

publisher sexism

publishing sexual

react sexuality

reaction sexually

reactionary shift

reactivate specifiable

reactivation specify

reactive sufficiency

reactor sufficient

register sufficiently

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task unreliable

technical unspecified

technically valid

technique validate

technological validation

technology validity

unconstrained validly

unconventional volume

unjustified

unpublished

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access concentrate

accessibility concentrated

accessible concentration

adequacy confer

adequate conference

annual contrast

annually contrasting

apparent contrastive

apparently cycle

approximate cyclic

approximately debatable

approximation debate

attitude despite

attributable dimension

attribute domestic

attribution domestically

civil domesticate

code domesticated

commit emerge

commitment emergence

committed emergent

communicable erroneous

communicate erroneously

communication error

communicative ethnic

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ethnicity investigator

goal job

grant label

granted mechanism

hence multidimensional

hypothesis obvious

hypothesize obviously

hypothetical occupancy

hypothetically occupant

implement occupation

implementation occupational

implicate occupied

implication occupier

impose occupy

imposition option

inaccessible optional

inadequacy output

inadequate overall

inadequately parallel

integrate parameter

integrated phase

integration predict

internal predictability

internalize predictable

internally prediction

investigate principal

investigation principally

investigative prior

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professional stress

professionalism stressed

professionally stressful

project subsequent

projection subsequently

promote sum

promoter summarize

promotion summary

regime summation

resolution uncommunicative

resolve undertake

retain undertaking

retainer undertook

retention unparalleled

retentive unpredictability

series unpredictable

statistic unresolved

statistical unstressed

statistician

status

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academia contact

academic contactable

academically decline

academy discrete

adjust discretely

adjustment discretion

alter discretionary

alterable draft

alteration enable

alternate energetic

amend energetically

amendment energy

aware enforce

awareness enforced

capacity entity

challenge equivalence

challenger equivalent

challenging evolution

clause evolutionary

compound evolutionist

conflict evolve

consult expand

consultancy expansion

consultant expansionism

consultation expansive

consultative expose
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exposed liberated

exposure liberation

external licence

externality license

externalization licensed

externalize logic

externally logical

facilitate logically

facilitation logician

facilitator margin

facility marginal

fundamental marginally

fundamentally medical

generate medically

generation mental

illogical mentality

image mentally

imagery modification

imprecise modify

incapacitate monitor

indiscretion network

instability notion

liberal objective

liberalism objectively

liberalization orient

liberalize orientate

liberally orientation

liberate perspective

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precise substitution

precisely sustain

precision sustainability

primacy sustainable

prime sustenance

psychological symbol

psychology symbolic

pursue symbolically

pursuit symbolism

ratio symbolize

readjust target

readjustment transit

redraft transition

reject transitional

rejection transitory

reorient trend

reorientation unalterable

revenue unaltered

stability unaware

stabilization unlicensed

stabilize unmodified

stable unstable

styling unsustainable

stylish version

stylized welfare

substitute whereas

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SECTION 6
abstract capable

abstraction citation

abstractly cite

accuracy cooperate

accurate cooperation

accurately cooperative

acknowledge cooperatively

acknowledgement discriminate

aggregate discrimination

aggregation display

allocate diverse

allocation diversification

assign diversify

assignment diversity

attach domain

attached edit

attachment edition

author editor

authorship editorial

bond enhance

bonding enhanced

brevity estate

brief exceed

briefing expert

briefly expertise

capability expertly
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explicit initiative

explicitly initiator

federal input

federation instruct

fee instruction

flexibility instructive

flexible instructor

furthermore intelligence

gender intelligent

ignorance intelligently

ignorant interval

ignore irrational

inaccuracy lecture

inaccurate lecturer

incapable migrant

incentive migrate

incidence migration

incident migratory

incidentally minimum

incorporate ministerial

incorporation ministry

index motivate

inflexibility motivated

inflexible motive

inhibit neutral

inhibition neutrality

initiate neutralization

initiation neutralize

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nevertheless subsidiary

overseas subsidize

precede subsidy

precedence tape

precedent trace

presumably traceable

presume transform

presumption transformation

presumptuous transport

rational transportation

rationalism transporter

rationality unassigned

rationalization unattached

rationalize underlie

reassign underlying

recover unintelligent

recoverable unmotivated

recovered unprecedented

recovery utility

reveal utilization

revealing utilize

revelation

scope

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SECTION 7
adapt couple

adaptability coupling

adaptable decade

adaptation definite

adaptive definitely

adult definitive

adulthood deniable

advocacy denial

advocate deny

aid differentiate

channel differentiation

chemical disposable

chemically disposal

classic dispose

classical disposed

comprehensive dynamic

comprehensively dynamically

comprise eliminate

confirm elimination

confirmation empirical

contrarily empirically

conversion empiricism

convert equip

convertible equipment

extract
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extraction insertion

file intervene

finite intervention

foundation invisibility

global invisible

globalization irreversible

globally isolate

globe isolated

grade isolation

graded isolationism

guarantee media

hierarchical mode

hierarchy paradigm

identical phenomenal

identically phenomenon

ideological prioritization

ideology prioritize

indefinite priority

indefinitely prohibit

infer prohibition

inference prohibitive

infinite publication

infinitely quotation

innovate quote

innovation release

innovative reversal

innovator reverse

insert reversible

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simulate topic

simulated topical

simulation transmission

sole transmit

solely ultimate

somewhat ultimately

submission unaided

submit undeniable

succession unique

successive uniquely

successively visibility

successor visible

survival visibly

survive voluntarily

survivor voluntary

thesis volunteer

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abandon clarity

abandoned commodity

abandonment complement

accompaniment complementary

accompany conform

accumulate conformability

accumulation conformable

ambiguity conformance

ambiguous conformation

append conformist

appendix conformity

appreciable contemporary

appreciably contradict

appreciate contradiction

appreciation contradictory

arbitrarily crucial

arbitrary crucially

automate currency

automatic denotation

automatically denote

automation detect

bias detectable

biased detection

chart detective

clarification detector

clarify deviate
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deviation inspect

displace inspection

displacement inspector

drama intense

dramatic intensely

dramatically intensification

dramatist intensify

dramatization intensity

dramatize intensive

eventual intensively

eventuality manipulate

eventually manipulation

exhibit manipulative

exhibition minimize

exploit nonconformist

exploitation nonconformity

fluctuate nuclear

fluctuation offset

guideline paragraph

highlight paragraphing

implicit practitioner

implicitly predominance

induce predominant

induction predominantly

inevitability predominate

inevitable prospect

inevitably prospective

infrastructure radical

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radically thereby

random unaccompanied

randomly unambiguous

reinforce unambiguously

reinforcement unappreciated

reschedule unbiased

restoration uncharted

restore uniform

revise uniformity

revision unscheduled

schedule vehicle

tense via

tensely virtual

tension virtually

terminal visual

terminate visualization

termination visualize

thematic visually

thematically widespread

theme

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accommodate commencement

accommodation compatibility

analogous compatible

analogy concurrent

anticipate concurrently

anticipation confine

assurance confined

assure controversial

assured controversially

assuredly controversy

attain conversely

attainable device

attainment devote

behalf devotion

bulk diminish

bulky diminution

cease distort

ceaseless distortion

coherence duration

coherent erode

coherently erosion

coincide ethic

coincidence ethical

coincident ethically

coincidental format

commence found
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immature passive

immaturity passively

incoherent passivity

incompatibility portion

incompatible preliminary

inherent protocol

inherently qualitative

insight qualitatively

insightful refine

integral refined

intermediate refinement

manual relax

manually relaxation

maturation relaxed

maturational relaxing

mature restrain

maturity restrained

mediate restraint

mediation revolution

medium revolutionary

military revolutionize

minimal rigid

minimalist rigidity

minimally route

mutual scenario

mutually sphere

norm spherical

overlap spherically

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subordinate unconfined

subordination uncontroversial

supplement undiminished

supplementary unethical

suspend unfounded

suspension unification

team unify

temporarily unrestrained

temporary violate

trigger violation

unanticipated vision

unattainable

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adjacent inclination

albeit incline

assemble inclined

assembly inconceivable

collapse inconceivably

collapsed integrity

collapsible intrinsic

colleague intrinsically

compilation invoke

compile levy

conceivable likewise

conceivably nonetheless

conceive notwithstanding

convince odd

convinced odds

convincing ongoing

convincingly panel

depress panelling

depressed persist

depressing persistence

depression persistent

encounter persistently

enormity pose

enormous reluctance

enormously reluctant

forthcoming so-called
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straightforward undergo

unconvinced whereby

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Resources used: The Academic Word List from Oxford Learner’s Dictionary

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