ACADEMIC VOCABULARY

 
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The Academic Word List

Useful academic vocabulary is contained in the Academic Word List, which is divided into 10 sublists in order of frequency, ie Sublist 1 has the most frequent academic words.

You can try to learn these words from the lists but to learn to use them correctly you need to study them in context. Look at Exercises and Concordances for some help with this.

Sublist 1
Sublist 2
Sublist 3
Sublist 4
Sublist 5

Sublist 6
Sublist 7
Sublist 8
Sublist 9
Sublist 10

Look at Coxhead's website to see the AWL organised in different ways.


The General Service List

The General Service List is a list of the basic vocabulary of English in order of frequency. It was first created by West in 1953. The version used here was adapted by Baumann and Culligan in 1995. It contains almost 2,300 words. For more information, look at Baumann's website.

Here, the General Service List is divided into smaller sublists. Sublist 1 has the first 500 words. Sublist 2 the next 500 words etc.

Sublist 1: 1-500
Sublist 2: 501-1000
Sublist 3: 1001-1500
Sublist 4: 1501-2000
Sublist 5: 2001-2284

 

 

 
 
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