Academic Word List

570 words that appear with great frequency in English-language college textbooks.

ACADEMIC WORD LIST

The 570 words you should know in college[1]

“They appear with great frequency in English-language college textbooks”

On-line site for exercises: http://www.academicvocabularyexercises.com/id17.htm

LIST-1

sector	available	financial	process
individual	specific	principle	estimate
variables	method	data	research
contract	environment	export	source
assessment	policy	identified	create
derived	factors	procedure	definition
assume	theory	benefit	evidence
established	authority	major	issues
labor	occur	economic	involved
percent	interpretation	consistent	income
structure	legal	concept	formula
section	required	constitutional	analysis
distribution	function	area	approach
role	legislation	indicate	response
period	context	significant	similar

LIST-2

community	resident	range	construction
strategies	elements	previous	conclusion
security	aspects	acquisition	features
text	commission	regulations	computer
items	consumer	achieve	final
positive	evaluation	assistance	normal
relevant	distinction	region	traditional
impact	consequences	chapter	equation
appropriate	resources	participation	survey
potential	cultural	transfer	select
credit	affect	categories	perceived
sought	focus	purchase	injury
site	journal	primary	complex
institute	investment	administration	maintenance
design	obtained	restricted	conduct

LIST-3

comments	convention	published	framework
implies	negative	dominant	illustrated
outcomes	constant	shift	deduction
ensure	specified	justification	funds
reliance	physical	partnership	location
link	coordination	alternative	initial
validity	task	techniques	excluded
consent	proportion	demonstrate	reaction
criteria	minorities	technology	philosophy
removed	sex	compensation	sequence
corresponding	maximum	circumstances	instance
considerable	sufficient	corporate	interaction
contribution	immigration	component	constraints
technical	emphasis	scheme	layer
volume	document	registered	core

LIST-4

overall	emerged	regime	implementation
project	hence	occupational	internal
goals	retained	sum	integration
mechanism	parallel	imposed	despite
job	parameters	approximate	label
concentration	principal	series	predicted
summary	attitudes	undertaken	cycle
communication	ethnic	hypothesis	professional
status	conference	attributed	annual
obvious	error	implications	apparent
commitment	subsequent	debate	dimensions
promote	statistics	option	domestic
output	access	code	investigation
phase	prior	granted	stress
civil	contrast	resolution	adequate

LIST-5

alter	stability	energy	aware
license	enforcement	draft	styles
precise	medical	pursue	symbolic
marginal	capacity	generation	exposure
decline	academic	modified	external
psychology	fundamental	adjustment	ratio
whereas	enable	version	perspective
contact	network	facilitate	welfare
transition	amendment	logic	rejected
expansion	clause	prime	target
objective	sustainable	equivalent	liberal
notion	substitution	generated	trend
revenue	compounds	evolution	conflict
image	discretion	entities	orientation
consultation	mental	monitoring	challenge

LIST-6

intelligence	transformation	presumption	acknowledged
utility	furthermore	accurate	diversity
attached	recovery	assigned	tapes
motivation	bond	edition	nevertheless
transport	cited	fees	scope
enhanced	incorporated	instructions	subsidiary
input	abstract	ministry	capable
expert	preceding	display	incentive
inhibition	trace	ignored	incidence
estate	cooperative	revealed	index
lecture	discrimination	overseas	explicit
aggregate	gender	underlying	brief
domain	rational	minimum	interval
neutral	migration	flexibility	federal
author	initiatives	allocation	exceed

LIST-7

intervention	confirmed	definite	classical
chemical	voluntary	release	visible
finite	publication	channel	file
thesis	equipment	disposal	solely
deny	identical	submitted	grade
phenomenon	paradigm	ultimately	extract
survive	converted	transmission	global
inferred	guarantee	advocate	dynamic
simulation	topic	insert	reverse
decades	comprise	hierarchical	unique
comprehensive	couple	mode	differentiation
eliminate	priority	empirical	ideology
somewhat	aid	foundation	adults
adaptation	quotation	contrary	media
successive	innovation	prohibited	isolated

LIST-8

highlighted	eventually	inspection	termination
displacement	arbitrary	reinforced	denote
offset	exploitation	detected	abandon
random	revision	virtually	uniform
predominantly	thereby	implicit	tension
ambiguous	vehicle	clarity	conformity
contemporary	automatically	accumulation	appendix
widespread	infrastructure	deviation	fluctuations
restore	guidelines	commodity	minimizes
practitioners	radical	plus	visual
chart	appreciation	prospect	dramatic
contradiction	currency	inevitably	accompany
paragraph	induced	schedule	intensity
crucial	via	exhibit	bias
manipulation	theme	nuclear	complement

LIST-9

bulk	behalf	unified	commenced
erosion	anticipated	minimal	ceases
vision	mutual	norms	intermediate
manual	supplementary	incompatible	concurrent
ethical	preliminary	integral	conversely
relaxed	confined	accommodation	temporary
distorted	passive	subordinate	analogous
military	scenario	revolution	diminished
coherence	suspended	mature	assurance
rigid	controversy	sphere	mediation
format	trigger	qualitative	portion
medium	coincide	violation	device
insights	refine	devoted	team
overlap	attained	restraints	inherent
route	protocol	founded	duration

LIST-10

whereby	inclination	encountered	convinced
assembly	albeit	enormous	reluctant
posed	persistent	undergo	notwithstanding
straightforward	panel	odd	intrinsic
compiled	adjacent	forthcoming	conceived
ongoing	so-called	likewise	nonetheless
levy	invoked	colleagues	depression
collapse	integrity

[1] developed by Averil Coxhead at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.