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General academic vocabulary

The vocabulary on this part of the site is for high school and college students who are learning via English as their second or additional language. The 1000+ keywords can be found in all disciplines and are essential for academic success.

New visitors to this site are recommended to first read the information pages linked to here. These give details on how the words were selected and how they are organized in the various quizzes.

Dominic Cole's AWL exercises to improve vocabulary

Academic Word List Exercises

A little about the Academic Word List

My daily word exercises are based on the Academic Word List (AWL). The AWL is a of the words most used in academic writing across all specialties (science, law,medicine,economics etc). As such they are precisely the words to be used in academic IELTS.

The AWL contains 570 word families subdivided in 10 lists with list 1 containing the most frequently used words and list 10 the least. The idea is that you should start off learning list 1 and work your way through to list 10.

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Academic word list families as categorised by Victoria University

This site, "Victoria University" gives the word families of words from the academic word list.

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.

Advanced English

The words in the Academic Word List occur in all subjects. All of the Academic Word List Words are included in these reading s and exercises. Start with the ones that look interesting.