Academic Word List

Compiled by

Averil Coxhead, Ph.D

&

The Oxford Phrase 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.

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 sublist, except for sublist 10 which has 30.

Sublist 1 of the Academic Word List

analyse authority constitutions
analysed authoritative constitutional
analyser authorities constitutionally
analysers available constitutive
analyses availability unconstitutional
analysing unavailable context
analysis benefit contexts
analyst beneficial contextual
analysts beneficiary contextualise
analytic beneficiaries contextualised
analytical benefited contextualising
analytically benefiting uncontextualised
analyze benefits contextualize
analyzed concept contextualized
analyzes conception contextualizing
analyzing concepts uncontextualized
approach conceptual contract
approachable conceptualisation contracted
approached conceptualise contracting
approaches conceptualised contractor
approaching conceptualises contractors
unapproachable conceptualising contracts
area conceptually create
areas consist created
assess consisted creates
assessable consistency creating
assessed consistent creation
assesses consistently creations
assessing consisting creative
assessment consists creatively
assessments inconsistencies creativity
reassess inconsistency creator
reassessed inconsistent creators
reassessing constitute recreate
reassessment constituencies recreated
unassessed constituency recreates
assume constituent recreating
assumed constituents data
assumes constituted define
assuming constitutes definable
assumption constituting defined
assumptions constitution defines

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 defining disestablishing formulated
definition disestablishment formulating
definitions established formulation
redefine establishes formulations
redefined establishing reformulate
redefines establishment reformulated
redefining establishments reformulating
undefined estimate reformulation
derive estimated reformulations
derivation estimates function
derivations estimating functional
derivative estimation functionally
derivatives estimations functioned
derived over-estimate functioning
derives overestimate functions
deriving overestimated identify
distribute overestimates identifiable
distributed overestimating identification
distributing underestimate identified
distribution underestimated identifies
distributional underestimates identifying
distributions underestimating identities
distributive evident identity
distributor evidenced unidentifiable
distributors evidence income
redistribute evidential incomes
redistributed evidently indicate
redistributes export indicated
redistributing exported indicates
redistribution exporter indicating
economy exporters indication
economic exporting indications
economical exports indicative
economically factor indicator
economics factored indicators
economies factoring individual
economist factors individualised
economists finance individuality
uneconomical financed individualism
environment finances individualist
environmental financial individualists
environmentalist financially individualistic
environmentalists financier individually
environmentally financiers individuals
environments financing interpret
establish formula interpretation
disestablish formulae interpretations
disestablished formulas interpretative
disestablishes formulate interpreted

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 interpreting majority requiring
interpretive method research
interprets methodical researched
misinterpret methodological researcher
misinterpretation methodologies researchers
misinterpretations methodology researches
misinterpreted methods researching
misinterpreting occur respond
misinterprets occurred responded
reinterpret occurrence respondent
reinterpreted occurrences respondents
reinterprets occurring responding
reinterpreting occurs responds
reinterpretation reoccur response
reinterpretations reoccurred responses
involve reoccurring responsive
involved reoccurs responsiveness
involvement percent unresponsive
involves percentage role
involving percentages roles
uninvolved period section
issue periodic sectioned
issued periodical sectioning
issues periodically sections
issuing periodicals sector
labour periods sectors
labor policy significant
labored policies insignificant
labors principle insignificantly
laboured principled significance
labouring principles significantly
labours unprincipled signified
legal proceed signifies
illegal procedural signify
illegality procedure signifying
illegally procedures similar
legality proceeded dissimilar
legally proceeding similarities
legislate proceedings similarity
legislated proceeds similarly
legislates process source
legislating processed sourced
legislation processes sources
legislative processing sourcing
legislator require specific
legislators required specifically
legislature requirement specification
major requirements specifications
majorities requires specificity

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 specifics unstructured variable
structure theory variables
restructure theoretical variably
restructured theoretically variance
restructures theories variant
restructuring theorist variants
structural theorists variation
structurally vary variations
structured invariable varied
structures invariably varies
structuring variability varying

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Sublist 2 of the Academic Word List

achieve categorization reconstruct

achievable categorized reconstructed
achieved categorizes reconstructing
achievement categorizing reconstruction
achievements chapter reconstructs
achieves chapters consume
achieving commission consumed
acquire commissioned consumer
acquired commissioner consumers
acquires commissioners consumes
acquiring commissioning consuming
acquisition commissions consumption
acquisitions community credit
administrate communities credited
administrates complex crediting
administration complexities creditor
administrations complexity creditors
administrative compute credits
administratively computation culture
administrator computational cultural
administrators computations culturally
affect computable cultured
affected computer cultures
affecting computed uncultured
affective computerised design
affectively computers designed
affects computing designer
unaffected conclude designers
appropriate concluded designing
appropriacy concludes designs
appropriately concluding distinct
appropriateness conclusion distinction
inappropriacy conclusions distinctions
inappropriate conclusive distinctive
inappropriately conclusively distinctively
aspect inconclusive distinctly
aspects inconclusively indistinct
assist conduct indistinctly
assistance conducted element
assistant conducting elements
assistants conducts equate
assisted consequent equated
assisting consequence equates
assists consequences equating
unassisted consequently equation
category construct equations
categories constructed evaluate
categorisation constructing evaluated
categorise construction evaluates
categorised constructions evaluating
categorises constructive evaluation
categorising constructs evaluations

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 evaluative instituting normalized
re-evaluate institution normalizes
re-evaluated institutional normalizing
re-evaluates institutionalise normality
re-evaluating institutionalised normally
re-evaluation institutionalises obtain
feature institutionalising obtainable
featured institutionalized obtained
features institutionalizes obtaining
featuring institutionalizing obtains
final institutionally unobtainable
finalise institutions participate
finalised invest participant
finalises invested participants
finalising investing participated
finalize investment participates
finalized investments participating
finalizes investor participation
finalizing investors participatory
finality invests perceive
finally reinvest perceived
finals reinvested perceives
focus reinvesting perceiving
focused reinvestment perception
focuses reinvests perceptions
focusing item positive
focussed itemisation positively
focussing itemise potential
refocus itemised potentially
refocused itemises previous
refocuses itemising previously
refocusing items primary
refocussed journal primarily
refocusses journals purchase
refocussing maintain purchased
impact maintained purchaser
impacted maintaining purchasers
impacting maintains purchases
impacts maintenance purchasing
injure normal range
injured abnormal ranged
injures abnormally ranges
injuries normalisation ranging
injuring normalise region
injury normalised regional
uninjured normalises regionally
institute normalising regions
instituted normalization regulate
institutes normalize deregulated

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 deregulates securities
deregulating security
deregulation seek
regulated seeking
regulates seeks
regulating sought
regulation select
regulations selected
regulator selecting
regulators selection
regulatory selections
unregulated selective
relevant selectively
irrelevance selector
irrelevant selectors
relevance selects
reside site
resided sites
residence strategy
resident strategic
residential strategies
residents strategically
resides strategist
residing strategists
resource survey
resourced surveyed
resourceful surveying
resources surveys
resourcing text
unresourceful texts
under-resourced textual
restrict tradition
restricted non-traditional
restricting traditional
restriction traditionalist
restrictions traditionally
restrictive traditions
restrictively transfer
restricts transferable
unrestricted transference
unrestrictive transferred
secure transferring
insecure transfers
insecurities
insecurity
secured
securely
secures
securing

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Sublist 3 of Academic Word List

alternative convention demonstrative

alternatively convenes demonstratively
alternatives convened demonstrator
circumstance convening demonstrators
circumstances conventional document
comment conventionally documentation
commentaries conventions documented
commentary unconventional documenting
commentator coordinate documents
commentators coordinated dominate
commented coordinates dominance
commenting coordinating dominant
comments coordination dominated
compensate coordinator dominates
compensated coordinators dominating
compensates co-ordinate domination
compensating co-ordinated emphasis
compensation co-ordinates emphasise
compensations co-ordinating emphasised
compensatory co-ordination emphasising
component co-ordinator emphasize
componentry co-ordinators emphasized
components core emphasizes
consent cores emphasizing
consensus coring emphatic
consented cored emphatically
consenting corporate ensure
consents corporates ensured
considerable corporation ensures
considerably corporations ensuring
constant correspond exclude
constancy corresponded excluded
constantly correspondence excludes
constants corresponding excluding
inconstancy correspondingly exclusion
inconstantly corresponds exclusionary
constrain criteria exclusionist
constrained criterion exclusions
constraining deduce exclusive
constrains deduced exclusively
constraint deduces framework
constraints deducing frameworks
unconstrained deduction fund
contribute deductions funded
contributed demonstrate funder
contributes demonstrable funders
contributing demonstrably funding
contribution demonstrated funds
contributions demonstrates illustrate
contributor demonstrating illustrated
contributors demonstration illustrates
convene demonstrations illustrating

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 illustration relocation proportions
illustrations maximise publish
illustrative max published
immigrate maximised publisher
immigrant maximises publishers
immigrants maximising publishes
immigrated maximisation publishing
immigrates maximize unpublished
immigrating maximized react
immigration maximizes reacted
imply maximizing reacts
implied maximization reacting
implies maximum reaction
implying minor reactionaries
initial minorities reactionary
initially minority reactions
instance minors reactive
instances negate reactivate
interact negative reactivation
interacted negated reactor
interacting negates reactors
interaction negating register
interactions negatively deregister
interactive negatives deregistered
interactively outcome deregistering
interacts outcomes deregisters
justify partner deregistration
justifiable partners registered
justifiably partnership registering
justification partnerships registers
justifications philosophy registration
justified philosopher rely
justifies philosophers reliability
justifying philosophical reliable
unjustified philosophically reliably
layer philosophies reliance
layered philosophise reliant
layering philosophised relied
layers philosophises relies
link philosophising relying
linkage philosophize unreliable
linkages philosophized remove
linked philosophizes removable
linking philosophizing removal
links physical removals
locate physically removed
located proportion removes
locating disproportion removing
location disproportionate scheme
locations disproportionately schematic
relocate proportional schematically
relocated proportionally schemed
relocates proportionate schemes
relocating proportionately scheming

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sequence
sequenced
sequences
sequencing
sequential
sequentially
sex
sexes
sexism
sexual
sexuality
sexually
shift
shifted
shifting
shifts
specify
specifiable
specified
specifies
specifying
unspecified
sufficient
sufficiency
insufficient
insufficiently
sufficiently
task
tasks
technical
technically
technique
techniques
technology
technological
technologically
valid
invalidate
invalidity
validate
validated
validating
validation
validity
validly
volume
volumes
vol

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Sublist 4 of the Academic Word List
access concentrate granting
accessed concentrated grants
accesses concentrates hence
accessibility concentrating hypothesis
accessible concentration hypotheses
accessing confer hypothesise
inaccessible conference hypothesised
adequate conferences hypothesises
adequacy conferred hypothesising
adequately conferring hypothesize
inadequacies confers hypothesized
inadequacy contrast hypothesizes
inadequate contrasted hypothesizing
inadequately contrasting hypothetical
annual contrastive hypothetically
annually contrasts implement
apparent cycle implementation
apparently cycled implemented
approximate cycles implementing
approximated cyclic implements
approximately cyclical implicate
approximates cycling implicated
approximating debate implicates
approximation debatable implicating
approximations debated implication
attitude debates implications
attitudes debating impose
attribute despite imposed
attributable dimension imposes
attributed dimensional imposing
attributes dimensions imposition
attributing multidimensional integrate
attribution domestic integrated
civil domestically integrates
code domesticate integrating
coded domesticated integration
codes domesticating internal
coding domestics internalise
commit emerge internalised
commitment emerged internalises
commitments emergence internalising
commits emergent internalize
committed emerges internalized
committing emerging internalizes
communicate error internalizing
communicable erroneous internally
communicated erroneously investigate
communicates errors investigated
communicating ethnic investigates
communication ethnicity investigating
communications goal investigation
communicative goals investigations
communicatively grant investigative
uncommunicative granted investigator

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 investigators predictable retentive
job predictably series
jobs predicted statistic
label predicting statistician
labeled prediction statisticians
labeling predictions statistical
labelled predicts statistically
labelling unpredictability statistics
labels unpredictable status
mechanism principal stress
mechanisms principally stressed
obvious prior stresses
obviously professional stressful
occupy professionally stressing
occupancy professionals unstressed
occupant professionalism subsequent
occupants project subsequently
occupation projected sum
occupational projecting summation
occupations projection summed
occupied projections summing
occupier projects sums
occupiers promote summary
occupies promoted summaries
occupying promoter summarise
option promoters summarised
optional promotes summarises
options promoting summarising
output promotion summarisation
outputs promotions summarisations
overall regime summarization
parallel regimes summarizations
paralleled resolve summarize
parallelled resolution summarized
parallelling resolved summarizes
parallels resolves summarizing
unparalleled resolving undertake
parameter unresolved undertaken
parameters retain undertakes
phase retained undertaking
phased retaining undertook
phases retainer
phasing retainers
predict retains
predictability retention

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Sublist 5 of the Academic Word List

academy compounds equivalent

academia conflict equivalence
academic conflicted evolve
academically conflicting evolution
academics conflicts evolved
academies consult evolving
adjust consultancy evolves
adjusted consultant evolutionary
adjusting consultants evolutionist
adjustment consultation evolutionists
adjustments consultations expand
adjusts consultative expanded
readjust consulted expanding
readjusted consults expands
readjusting consulting expansion
readjustment contact expansionism
readjustments contactable expansive
readjusts contacted expose
alter contacting exposed
alterable contacts exposes
alteration decline exposing
alterations declined exposure
altered declines exposures
altering declining external
alternate discrete externalisation
alternating discretely externalise
alters discretion externalised
unalterable discretionary externalises
unaltered indiscrete externalising
amend indiscretion externality
amended draft externalization
amending drafted externalize
amendment drafting externalized
amendments drafts externalizes
amends redraft externalizing
aware redrafted externally
awareness redrafting facilitate
unaware redrafts facilitated
capacity enable facilitates
capacities enabled facilities
incapacitate enables facilitating
incapacitated enabling facilitation
challenge energy facilitator
challenged energetic facilitators
challenger energetically facility
challengers energies fundamental
challenges enforce fundamentally
challenging enforced generate
clause enforcement generated
clauses enforces generates
compound enforcing generating
compounded entity generation
compounding entities generations

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image network stabilizing
imagery networked stability
images networking unstable
liberal networks style
liberalise notion styled
liberalism notions styles
liberalisation objective styling
liberalised objectively stylish
liberalises objectivity stylise
liberalising orient stylised
liberalization orientate stylises
liberalize orientated stylising
liberalized orientates stylize
liberalizes orientation stylized
liberalizing orientating stylizes
liberate oriented stylizing
liberated orienting substitute
liberates orients substituted
liberation reorient substitutes
liberations reorientation substituting
liberating perspective substitution
liberator perspectives sustain
liberators precise sustainable
liberally imprecise sustainability
liberals precisely sustained
licence precision sustaining
licences prime sustains
license primacy sustenance
licensed psychology unsustainable
licensing psychological symbol
licenses psychologically symbolic
unlicensed psychologist symbolically
logic psychologists symbolise
illogical pursue symbolises
illogically pursued symbolised
logical pursues symbolising
logically pursuing symbolism
logician pursuit symbolize
logicians pursuits symbolized
margin ratio symbolizes
marginal ratios symbolizing
marginally reject symbols
margins rejected target
medical rejecting targeted
medically rejection targeting
mental rejects targets
mentality rejections transit
mentally revenue transited
modify revenues transiting
modification stable transition
modifications instability transitional
modified stabilisation transitions
modifies stabilise transitory
modifying stabilised transits
unmodified stabilises trend
monitor stabilising trends
monitored stabilization version
monitoring stabilize versions
monitors stabilized welfare
unmonitored stabilizes whereas
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Sublist 6 of the Academic Word List

abstract bonded edited

abstraction bonding editing
abstractions bonds edition
abstractly brief editions
abstracts brevity editor
accurate briefed editorial
accuracy briefing editorials
accurately briefly editors
inaccuracy briefs edits
inaccuracies capable enhance
inaccurate capabilities enhanced
acknowledge capability enhancement
acknowledged incapable enhances
acknowledges cite enhancing
acknowledging citation estate
acknowledgement citations estates
acknowledgemens cited exceed
aggregate citing exceeded
aggregated cites exceeding
aggregates cooperate exceeds
aggregating cooperated expert
aggregation cooperates expertise
allocate cooperating expertly
allocated cooperation experts
allocates cooperative explicit
allocating cooperatively explicitly
allocation co-operate federal
allocations co-operated federation
assign co-operates federations
assigned co-operation fee
assigning co-operative fees
assignment co-operatively flexible
assignments discriminate flexibility
assigns discriminated inflexible
reassign discriminates inflexibility
reassigned discriminating furthermore
reassigning discrimination gender
reassigns display genders
unassigned displayed ignorant
attach displaying ignorance
attached displays ignore
attaches diverse ignored
attaching diversely ignores
attachment diversification ignoring
attachments diversified incentive
unattached diversifies incentives
author diversify incidence
authored diversifying incident
authoring diversity incidentally
authors domain incidents
authorship domains incorporate
bond edit incorporated

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 incorporates ministries recovery
incorporating motive reveal
incorporation motivate revealed
index motivated revealing
indexed motivates reveals
indexes motivating revelation
indexing motivation revelations
inhibit motivations scope
inhibited motives subsidy
inhibiting unmotivated subsidiary
inhibition neutral subsidies
inhibitions neutralisation subsidise
inhibits neutralise subsidised
initiate neutralised subsidises
initiated neutralises subsidising
initiates neutralising subsidize
initiating neutrality subsidized
initiation neutralization subsidizes
initiations neutralize subsidizing
initiative neutralized tape
initiatives neutralizes taped
initiator neutralizing tapes
initiators nevertheless taping
input overseas trace
inputs precede traceable
instruct preceded traced
instruction precedence traces
instructed precedent tracing
instructing precedes transform
instructions preceding transformation
instructive unprecedented transformations
instructor presume transformed
instructors presumably transforming
instructs presumed transforms
intelligent presumes transport
intelligence presuming transportation
intelligently presumption transported
unintelligent presumptions transporter
interval presumptuous transporters
intervals rational transporting
lecture irrational transports
lectured rationalisation underlie
lecturer rationalisations underlay
lecturers rationalise underlies
lectures rationalised underlying
lecturing rationalises utilise
migrate rationalising utilisation
migrant rationalism utilised
migrants rationality utilises
migrated rationalization utilising
migrates rationalizations utiliser
migrating rationalize utilisers
migration rationalized utility
migrations rationalizes utilities
migratory rationally utilization
minimum recover utilize
ministry recoverable utilized
ministered recovered utilizes
ministering recovering utilizing
ministerial recovers

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Sublist 7 of the Academic Word List

adapt coupled filing

adaptability coupling finite
adaptable couples infinite
adaptation decade infinitely
adaptations decades foundation
adapted definite foundations
adapting definitely globe
adaptive definitive global
adapts indefinite globally
adult indefinitely globalisation
adulthood deny globalization
adults deniable grade
advocate denial graded
advocacy denials grades
advocated denied grading
advocates denies guarantee
advocating denying guaranteed
aid undeniable guaranteeing
aided differentiate guarantees
aiding differentiated hierarchy
aids differentiates hierarchical
unaided differentiating hierarchies
channel differentiation identical
channelled dispose identically
channelling disposable ideology
channels disposal ideological
chemical disposed ideologically
chemically disposes ideologies
chemicals disposing infer
classic dynamic inference
classical dynamically inferences
classics dynamics inferred
comprehensive eliminate inferring
comprehensively eliminated infers
comprise eliminates innovate
comprised eliminating innovation
comprises elimination innovated
comprising empirical innovates
confirm empirically innovating
confirmation empiricism innovations
confirmed equip innovative
confirming equipment innovator
confirms equipped innovators
contrary equipping insert
contrarily equips inserted
convert extract inserting
conversion extracted insertion
conversions extracting inserts
converted extraction intervene
convertible extracts intervened
converting file intervenes
converts filed intervening
couple files intervention

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 interventions reversing voluntary
isolate reversals voluntarily
isolated irreversible volunteer
isolates simulate volunteering
isolating simulated volunteered
isolation simulates volunteers
isolationism simulating
media simulation
mode sole
modes solely
paradigm somewhat
paradigms submit
phenomenon submission
phenomena submissions
phenomenal submits
priority submitted
priorities submitting
prioritisation successor
prioritise succession
prioritised successions
prioritises successive
prioritising successively
prioritization successors
prioritize survive
prioritized survival
prioritizes survived
prioritizing survives
prohibit surviving
prohibited survivor
prohibiting survivors
prohibition thesis
prohibitions theses
prohibitive topic
prohibits topical
publication topics
publications transmit
quote transmission
quotation transmissions
quotations transmitted
quoted transmitting
quotes transmits
quoting ultimate
release ultimately
released unique
releases uniquely
releasing uniqueness
reverse visible
reversal visibility
reversed visibly
reverses invisible
reversible invisibility

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Sublist 8 of the Academic Word List

abandon charting detectable

abandoned charts detected
abandoning uncharted detecting
abandonment clarify detection
abandons clarification detective
accompany clarified detectives
accompanied clarifies detector
accompanies clarifying detectors
accompaniment clarity detects
accompanying commodity deviate
unaccompanied commodities deviated
accumulate complement deviates
accumulated complementary deviating
accumulating complemented deviation
accumulation complementing deviations
accumulates complements displace
ambiguous conform displaced
ambiguities conformable displacement
ambiguity conformability displaces
unambiguous conformance displacing
unambiguously conformation drama
append conformed dramas
appendix conforming dramatic
appended conformist dramatically
appends conformists dramatise
appending conformity dramatised
appendices conforms dramatising
appendixes nonconformist dramatises
appreciate nonconformists dramatisation
appreciable nonconformity dramatisations
appreciably non-conformist dramatist
appreciated non-conformists dramatists
appreciates non-conformity dramatization
appreciating contemporary dramatizations
appreciation contemporaries dramatize
unappreciated contradict dramatized
arbitrary contradicted dramatizes
arbitrariness contradicting dramatizing
arbitrarily contradiction eventual
automate contradictions eventuality
automatic contradictory eventually
automated contradicts exhibit
automates crucial exhibited
automating crucially exhibiting
automatically currency exhibition
automation currencies exhibitions
bias denote exhibits
biased denotation exploit
biases denotations exploitation
biasing denoted exploited
unbiased denotes exploiting
chart denoting exploits
charted detect fluctuate

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 fluctuated minimize schedules
fluctuates minimized scheduling
fluctuating minimizes unscheduled
fluctuation minimizing tense
fluctuations nuclear tension
guideline offset tensely
guidelines offsets tenser
highlight offsetting tensest
highlighted paragraph tensions
highlighting paragraphing terminate
highlights paragraphs terminal
implicit plus terminals
implicitly pluses terminated
induce practitioner terminates
induced practitioners terminating
induces predominant termination
inducing predominance terminations
induction predominantly theme
inevitable predominate themes
inevitability predominated thematic
inevitably predominates thematically
infrastructure predominating thereby
infrastructures prospect uniform
inspect prospective uniformity
inspected prospects uniformly
inspecting radical vehicle
inspection radically vehicles
inspections radicals via
inspector random virtual
inspectors randomly virtually
inspects randomness visual
intense reinforce visualise
intensely reinforced visualised
intenseness reinforcement visualising
intensification reinforcements visualisation
intensified reinforces visualize
intensifies reinforcing visualized
intensify restore visualizing
intensifying restoration visualization
intension restored visually
intensity restores widespread
intensive restoring
intensively revise
manipulate revised
manipulated revises
manipulates revising
manipulating revision
manipulation revisions
manipulations schedule
manipulative reschedule
minimise rescheduled
minimised reschedules
minimises rescheduling
minimising scheduled

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Sublist 9 of the Academic Word List
commences ethically
accommodate commencement ethics
accommodated commencing unethical
accommodates recommences format
accommodating recommenced formatted
accommodation recommencing formatting
analogy compatible formats
analogies compatibility found
analogous incompatibility founded
anticipate incompatible founder
anticipated concurrent founders
anticipates concurrently founding
anticipating confine unfounded
anticipation confined inherent
unanticipated confines inherently
assure confining insight
assurance unconfined insightful
assurances controversy insights
assured controversies integral
assuredly controversial intermediate
assures controversially manual
assuring uncontroversial manually
attain converse manuals
attainable conversely mature
attained device immature
attaining devices immaturity
attainment devote maturation
attainments devoted maturational
attains devotedly matured
unattainable devotes matures
behalf devoting maturing
bulk devotion maturity
bulky devotions mediate
cease diminish mediated
ceased diminished mediates
ceaseless diminishes mediating
ceases diminishing mediation
ceasing diminution medium
coherent undiminished military
coherence distort minimal
coherently distorted minimalisation
incoherent distorting minimalise
incoherently distortion minimalises
coincide distortions minimalised
coincided distorts minimalising
coincides duration minimalist
coinciding erode minimalists
coincidence eroded minimalistic
coincidences erodes minimalization
coincident eroding minimalize
coincidental erosion minimalized
commence ethic minimalizes
commenced ethical minimalizing

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 minimally restraints supplementing
mutual unrestrained supplements
mutually revolution suspend
norm revolutionary suspended
norms revolutionaries suspending
overlap revolutionise suspends
overlapped revolutionised suspension
overlapping revolutionises team
overlaps revolutionising teamed
passive revolutionist teaming
passively revolutionists teams
passivity revolutionize temporary
portion revolutionized temporarily
portions revolutionizes trigger
preliminary revolutionizing triggered
preliminaries revolutions triggering
protocol rigid triggers
protocols rigidities unify
qualitative rigidity unification
qualitatively rigidly unified
refine route unifies
refined routed unifying
refinement routes violate
refinements routing violated
refines scenario violates
refining scenarios violating
relax sphere violation
relaxation spheres violations
relaxed spherical vision
relaxes spherically visions
relaxing subordinate
restrain subordinates
restrained subordination
restraining supplement
restrains supplementary
restraint supplemented
Sublist 10 of the Academic Word List

adjacent collapsible conceivable

albeit collapsing conceivably
assemble colleague conceived
assembled colleagues conceives
assembles compile conceiving
assemblies compilation inconceivable
assembling compilations inconceivably
assembly compiled convince
collapse compiles convinced
collapsed compiling convinces
collapses conceive convincing

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 convincingly poses
unconvinced posing
depress reluctance
depressed reluctant
depresses reluctantly
depressing so-called
depression straightforward
encounter undergo
encountered undergoes
encountering undergoing
encounters undergone
enormous underwent
enormity whereby
enormously
forthcoming
incline
inclination
inclinations
inclined
inclines
inclining
integrity
intrinsic
intrinsically
invoke
invoked
invokes
invoking
levy
levies
likewise
nonetheless
notwithstanding
odd
odds
ongoing
panel
panelled
panelling
panels
persist
persisted
persistence
persistent
persistently
persisting
persists
pose
posed

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The Oxford Phrase List™
The Oxford Phrase List is a list of 750 common phrases from A1 to C1 level. It includes idioms, phrasal
verbs, compounds, collocations, prepositional phrases and other common fixed phrases.

each other high school living room

A1 end in sth his or her look at sb/sth
every day How about…? look for sb/sth
a few
every week How are you? look like sb/sth
a few minutes
every year How long…? lots of…
a few times
excuse me How many…? millions of…
a few years
family member How much…? mobile phone
a good idea
find out How often…? more than…
Good idea!
find out about sth important for sb/sth next time
It’s a good idea to…
find out more It is important for sb/sth to do next year
That’s a good idea! sth
for a long time next month
agree with sb I’m sorry next week
a long time
a little in April No problem
a little help for a moment
for example in July, etc. of course
a little money in bed Oh no!
a little sugar for lunch
for many years in class Oh yes
a lot in fact old friend
a lot to do for the first time
get home in front of once a…
a lot of sth in my opinion once a month
all day get married
get off in school once a week
all night in space once a year
all over the world get off the bus
I’m getting off here. in summer one day
anything else in winter on holiday
anyone else get on
in the centre on Monday
a period of time get on the bus
in the centre of sth on Tuesday, etc.
around the world Are you getting on?
in the country on television
arrive at… get ready
I live in the country. on the television
arrive in… get ready for sth
the best… in the country on the beach
ask for sth get ready to do sth
in the future on the floor
at home get there
in the morning on the internet
at school get to…
in the afternoon on the left
at the beginning of sth get up
in the evening on the right
at the end go back
in the north on the phone
at the end of sth go back to…
in the south be on the phone
at the moment go home
in the east talk on the phone
at the same time go into sth
in the west on TV
at the weekend She went into her room.
in the past out of sth
at university good at sth in the street over there
at work good for sb/sth in the summer pay for sth
away from sb/sth Good morning in the winter phone call
bad for sb/sth Good afternoon in town phone number
bad news Good evening it is important to do sth plan for sth
bad thing good news It takes… make plans for sth
the bad things about sth good thing It takes an hour to get there. What are your plans for
because of the good things about sth kind of sb/sth next year?
begin with sth go out What kind of music do you play with sb/sth
be going to do sth go to bed like? post office
best friend go to school know how pretty good
black and white go to work know how to do sth really enjoy
car park grow up last time I really enjoyed it.
cell phone Guess what… the last time really good
city centre half an hour last year really like
in the city centre hard work last month I’d really like to…
come from… have fun last summer right now
come into sth have got last week See you
He came into the room. have time last weekend See you around
differences between A and B have time for sth learn how to do sth See you later
difficult for sb have time to do sth listen to sb/sth See you soon
it is difficult for sb to do sth he or she live with sb sit down

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someone else X years later depend on sb/sth in the air
something else X days later depend on sb/sth for sth in the end
speak to sb X minutes later depend on sth in the middle
spend time X years old do well in the middle of sth
spend time doing sth You’re welcome each one in the same way
spend time with sb end with sth in this way
stand up even more… it depends
stay in
stay in a hotel
A2 even more difficult it all depends
even more exciting I think so
stay in bed a bit everyone else I don’t think so
I’m staying in tonight. able to do sth except for lead to sth
such as a couple of sth fall in love less than…
swimming pool add to sth fall in love with sb Let me…
talk about sb/sth again and again fall off Let me help you.
thank you all about… fall off sth let me know
thank you very much Tell me all about it. far away look after sb/sth/yourself
that day all kinds of… feel good look back at sth
the 20th century all over… feel like sth Look back at your notes.
the 21st century all over the world fill sth in look sth up
the 19th century all sorts of… find it difficult to do sth make a mistake
the next day all the time first of all make money
there is a long time ago focus on sb/sth make sense
there are a long way followed by sb/sth make sure
there was a number of sth for the rest of sth make sure of sth
there were a large number of sth for this reason make sure that…
think about sb/sth apply for sth get back much better
think of sb/sth art gallery get better not at all
This is… as a result get lost I didn’t enjoy it at all.
This is my dad. as a result of sth get out no way
this kind of… as part of sth get out of sth No way!
this morning as part of a team give up There is no way (that)…
this afternoon as soon as give sth up Oh dear
this evening as well go and… Oh well
this time as well as sb/sth go and get help on earth
this year at first go away on the ground
this summer at least go down on the other side
this weekend at the age of… Prices are going down. on the other side of sth
thousands of… at the start of sth go down sth on the wall
too long at the time Go down the road. on time
too far
at that time go for sth on top of sth/sb
too hard
at the time of sth go for a walk one or two
too much
at the top go up ordinary people
too many
at the top of sth Prices are going up. pay attention
town centre
based on sth good luck pay attention to sb/sth
in the town centre
be allowed to do sth happen to sb/sth per hour
TV show
believe in sb/sth happy with sb/sth kilometres per hour
wait for sb/sth
belong to sb have a look miles per hour
wake up
welcome to sth belong to sth have a look at sth pick sb/sth up
What about…? be made of sth have got to police officer
work as sth by the end of sth Have you ever…? police station
work for sb/sth care about sth health problems public transport
work hard carry on hear about sb/sth put sth on
work together carry on with sth I don’t care quite a lot
work together for sth carry sth out if necessary quite a lot of sth
work together to do sth check in if you want to reasons why
work with sb check in at… I guess refer to sb/sth
would like check sth in I’m afraid… refer to sb/sth as sth
I would like… check out I mean report on sth
I would like to… check out of sth in business respond to sth/sb
Would you like…? climate change in danger save money
X hours a day close to sb/sth in history science fiction
X times a… come back the first time in history search for sth/sb
X times a day Come on! in hospital so that…
X times a week connected to sth in love solution to sth
X years ago connected with sb/sth in love with sb sort of sth
X days ago credit card in prison What sorts of things do you
X months ago deal with sb in some cases do?
X weeks ago deal with sth instead of sound like sb/sth

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start with sb/sth be going on in case… participate in sth
such a/an… What’s going on? just in case… point of view
such a good idea be known as sb/sth in charge of sb/sth point out
take care of sb/sth/yourself benefit from sth in contrast point sth out
take off be supposed to do sth in contrast to sb/sth point out that…
take sth off be supposed to be sth in favour of sb/sth prepared to do sth
take part break up in general primary school
take part in sth break up with sb in order of sth prime minister
take place by the time (that)… in order to do sth put sth up
the best thing can’t afford sth in other words quite a…
the best thing to do can’t afford to do sth in particular quite a good player
the first thing care for sb in public quite a long time
the first thing I did caused by sth in recent years raise money
the following… check sb/sth out in response to sth raise money for sth
the following day choose to do sth in terms of sth rather than
the important thing clean up in the case of sth reaction to sth
the most important thing clean sth up in the form of sb/sth relate to sth/sb
the other side of sth click on sth in the way (that)… relating to sth/sb
the other side of the world come up with sth in this case related to sth/sb
the rest of sth compared with sth in time respect for sb/sth
the rest of the world concentrate on sth in time for sth result in sth
these days consist of sb/sth in time to do sth rise in sth
they say… decide on sth in touch a rise in the number of visitors
They say you can’t buy depending on be in touch run out
happiness. developing countries get in touch run out of sth
throw sth away due to sb/sth keep in touch search engine
turn sth off economic growth in touch with sb secondary school
turn sth on end up
I wonder if… set sth up
up and down even if
leave sb/sth out slow down
Why not…? even though
likely to do sth so far
work out exactly the same
look forward to sth some kind of…
worried about sb/sth experience in sth
look out succeed in doing sth
would love to do sth fail to do sth
make a difference suffer from sth
write sth down fall asleep
make sth up sure to do sth
far more
manage to do sth take sb/sth on
far more important
mean to do sth take up sth
B1 far more opportunities
far too
I didn’t mean to. take up too much room
a bit more more and more take sth up
far too much homework
a bit of sth move on take up golf
fed up
access to sth for a while move on to sth tell the truth
after all for free no longer tend to do sth
a great deal for instance not any longer tend to be sth
a great deal better for life no more than… thanks to sb/sth
a great deal of sth a job for life not even that’s it
aim to do sth for long I didn’t even see it. the case
a kind of… for some time not necessarily be the case that…
I had a kind of feeling this get on with sb not only the fact that…
might happen. get to know sb not only… but also… those who…
a little bit get used to sth on a regular basis There are those who say…
a little more get used to doing sth on my own to do with sb/sth
along with sb/sth global warming on their own be to do with sb/sth
a lot more go ahead on your own have to do with sb/sth
alternative to sth go ahead with sth on the other hand together with
and so on go wrong on the street too bad
apart from growth in sth on the streets try and…
a range of sth have no idea on the way turn out
a wide range of sth have sth in common or something turn out to be sth
as if… have sth in common with sb or somebody turn sth up
as if nothing had happened have sth in common with sth or somewhere unable to do sth
as much as hear of sb/sth or two up to sth
as soon as possible heart disease a day or two up to 60 miles per hour
at last high street a moment or two way of life
at risk higher education a pound or two well known
at times if I were you ought to work on sth
attached to sb/sth in addition out there work sth out
a variety of sth in addition to sb/sth over the years wrong with sb/sth
be about to do sth in a way that... over time you see

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B2 draw attention to sb/sth
engage in sth
put sth together
quality of life
by no means
call on sb
a bit of a… engaged in sth ranging from call on sb to do sth
account for sth ever since(…) prices ranging from €25 to €60 consistent with sth
accused of sth exposure to sth regarded as sth dedicated to sth
act as sth far from sth relevant to sb/sth deprive sb/sth of sth
aimed at sb far from doing sth rely on sb/sth dispose of sb/sth
aimed at doing sth figure sb/sth out role model follow sth up
all the way find yourself doing sth set out for that matter
a means of sth get in short of sth for the benefit of sb
a means of communication get into sth so as to do sth for the sake of sb/sth
a means of transport The train got in late. something like… get away with sth
appeal to sb get over sth/sb sort sb/sth/yourself out given that…
apply to sb/sth You’ll get over it. stick to sth have sb/sth in mind
as a whole get rid of sb/sth subject to sth have sb/sth in mind for sth
as far as I am concerned go off sum up have nothing to do with sb/sth
as follows… She went off to get a drink. sum sth up be nothing to do with sb/sth
as for sb/sth A bomb went off. take advantage of sb/sth in accordance with sth
as long as… The alarm went off. take sth into account in any case
associated with sth The lights went off. take over in a position to do sth
associated with doing sth go on to do sth take over from sb in conjunction with sb/sth
as though… go through sth that is in connection with sb/sth
at once had better the vast majority of sth in effect
at present hang on turn into sth in full
at some point human being up to sb in line with sth
at the end of the day human rights when it comes to sth in practice
at this point if only… when it comes to doing sth in respect of sth
at this stage I have to say… whether or not… in such a way (that)…
awareness of sth in action would rather… in the absence of sb/sth
back sb/sth up in advance in the course of…
be charged with sth in an attempt to do sth in the event of sth
be charged with doing sth in part
in place
C1 in the face of sth
in the hands of sb
be derived from sth
be expected to do sth in relation to sb/sth above all in the light of sth
be known to do sth in spite of sth all but in light of sth
be made up of sth in the first place all the more in the meantime
be surrounded by sb/sth in the near future as far as sb/sth is concerned in the midst of sth
be to blame in turn as of… in the presence of sb
be to blame for sth investment in sth as opposed to in the presence of sth
both sides I would say... as such in the wake of sb/sth
both sides of the argument loads of sb/sth as to sth involvement in sth
on both sides mental health as to how… let alone
bound to do sth more or less as to whether… little more than…
bound to be sth no doubt at the expense of sb/sth live on sth
bring sb up no matter… at the hands of sb may well
by now no matter how… back and forth nothing like
call for sth no matter what… bear sb/sth in mind not to mention
case study nothing but bear in mind that… on behalf of sb
come across sb/sth on board keep sb/sth in mind on the part of sb
come true once again keep in mind that… over the course of…
a dream come true one another be attributed to sb put it
concerned about sth on the basis of sth be entitled to sth How shall I put it?
concerned with sth on the one hand be found to do sth seek to do sth
confidence in sb/sth opposed to sth be meant to do sth set to do sth
contribute to sth or so be reported to be sth the extent to which…
control over sb/sth other than be reported to have sth to date
cope with sth potential for sth be said to be sth his best work to date
decline in sth pretty much be said to have sth up against sth
prior to bring sth about with regard to sb/sth
a decline in student numbers
prove to be sth bring sth up with respect to sth
dependent on sb/sth
put sth forward by means of sth with the exception of sb/sth
despite the fact that…

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