ACADEMIC WORD LIST 1

Most common
form Other words in the family Other words in the family

analysis analyse, analysed, analyser, analysers, analyses, analysing, analyst, analysts, analytic,
analytical, analytically
approach approachable, approached, approaches, approaching, unapproachable area

areas

assessment assess, assessable, assessed, assesses, assessing, assessments, reassess, reassessed,

reassessing, reassessment, unassessed
assume assumed, assumes, assuming, assumption, assumptions

authority authoritative, authorities

available availability, unavailable

benefit beneficial, beneficiary, beneficiaries, benefited, benefiting, benefits concept conception,

concepts, conceptual, conceptualisation, conceptualise, conceptualised, conceptualises,
conceptualising, conceptually

consistent consist, consisted, consistency, consistently, consisting, consists, inconsistencies,

inconsistency, inconsistent
constituencies, constituency, constituent, constituents, constitute, constituted, constitutes,
constitutional constituting, constitution, constitutions, constitutionally,
constitutive, unconstitutional

context contexts, contextual, contextualise, contextualised, contextualising

decontextualised, uncontextualised
contract contracted, contracting, contractor, contractors, contracts

create created, creates, creating, creation, creations, creative, creatively, creativity, creator, creators, recreate,
recreated, recreates, recreating
data -

definition definable, define, defined, defines, defining, definitions, redefine, redefined, redefines,
redefining, undefined

derived derivation, derivations, derivative, derivatives, derive, derives, deriving distribution distribute,
distributed, distributing, distributional, distributions, distributive, distributor, distributors, redistribute,
redistributed, redistributes, redistributing, redistribution

economic economical, economically, economics, economies, economist, economists, economy,

uneconomical
environment environmental, environmentalist, environmentalists, environmentally, environments

established disestablish, disestablished, disestablishes, disestablishing, disestablishment, establish,

establishes, establishing, establishment, establishments
estimated, estimates, estimating, estimation, estimations, over-estimate, overestimate,
estimate underestimate, underestimated, underestimates,
overestimated, overestimates, overestimating, underestimating
evidence evidenced, evident, evidential, evidently

export exported, exporter, exporters, exporting, exports

factors factor, factored, factoring

 financial finance, financed, finances, financially, financier, financiers, financing formula formulae, formulas,
formulate, formulated, formulating, formulation, formulations, reformulate, reformulated, reformulating,
reformulation, reformulations
function functional, functionally, functioned, functioning, functions

identified identifiable, identification, identifies, identify, identifying, identities, identity, unidentifiable

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Most common
form Other words in the family Other words in the family
income incomes

indicate indicated, indicates, indicating, indication, indications, indicative, indicator, indicators individual
individualised, individuality, individualism, individualist, individualists, individualistic, individually, individuals
interpret, interpretations, interpretative, interpreted, interpreting, interpretive, interprets
interpretation reinterpret, reinterpreted, reinterprets, reinterpreting,
misinterpret, misinterpretation, misinterpretations, reinterpretation, reinterpretations
misinterpreted, misinterpreting, misinterprets,
involved involve, involvement, involves, involving, uninvolved

issues issue, issued, issuing

labour laboured, labouring, labours

legal illegal, illegality, illegally, legality, legally

legislation legislate, legislated, legislates, legislating, legislative, legislator, legislators, legislature major
majorities, majority

method methodical, methodological, methodologies, methodology, methods occur

occurred, occurrence, occurrences, occurring, occurs
reoccur, reoccurred, reoccurring, reoccurs
percent per cent, percentage, percentages

period periodic, periodical, periodically, periodicals, periods

policy policies

principle principled, principles, unprincipled

procedure procedural, procedures, proceed, proceeded, proceeding, proceedings, proceeds

process processed, processes, processing

required require, requirement, requirements, requires, requiring

research researched, researcher, researchers, researches, researching

response respond, responded, respondent, respondents, responding, responds, responses,

responsive, responsiveness, unresponsive
role roles

section sectioned, sectioning, sections

sector sectors

significant insignificant, insignificantly, significance, significantly, signified, signifies, signify, signifying

similar dissimilar, similarities, similarity, similarly

source sourced, sources, sourcing

specific specifically, specification, specifications, specificity, specifics

structure restructure, restructured, restructures, restructuring, structural, structurally, structured,

structures, structuring, unstructured
theory theoretical, theoretically, theories, theorist, theorists

variables invariable, invariably, variability, variable, variably, variance, variant, variants, variation,
variations, varied, varies, vary, varying

Adapted from Coxhead, A, The academic word list, Victoria University of Wellington, viewed 3 April
2012,
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources/academicwordlist.

Academic word list 1 -2- Last updated April 2012