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Culture Documents
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
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inconsistencies creating distributional
inconsistency creation distributions
inconsistent creations distributive
constitute creative distributor
constituencies creatively distributors
constituency creativity redistribute
constituent creator redistributed
constituents creators redistributes
constituted recreate redistributing
constitutes recreated redistribution
constituting recreates economy
constitution recreating economic
constitutions data economical
constitutional define economically
constitutionally definable economics
constitutive defined economies
unconstitutional defines economist
context defining economists
contexts definition uneconomical
contextual definitions environment
contextualise redefine environmental
contextualised redefined environmentalist
contextualising redefines environmentalists
uncontextualised redefining environmentally
contextualize undefined environments
contextualized derive establish
contextualizing derivation disestablish
uncontextualized derivations disestablished
contract derivative disestablishes
contracted derivatives disestablishing
contracting derived disestablishment
contractor derives established
contractors deriving establishes
contracts distribute establishing
create distributed establishment
created distributing establishments
creates distribution estimate
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estimated formula indicator
estimates formulae indicators
estimating formulas individual
estimation formulate individualised
estimations formulated individuality
overestimate formulating individualism
overestimate formulation individualist
overestimated formulations individualists
overestimates reformulate individualistic
overestimating reformulated individually
underestimate reformulating individuals
underestimated reformulation interpret
underestimates reformulations interpretation
underestimating function interpretations
evident functional interpretative
evidenced functionally interpreted
evidence functioned interpreting
evidential functioning interpretive
evidently functions interprets
export identify misinterpret
exported identifiable misinterpretation
exporter identification misinterpretations
exporters identified misinterpreted
exporting identifies misinterpreting
exports identifying misinterprets
factor identities reinterpret
factored identity reinterpreted
factoring unidentifiable reinterprets
factors income reinterpreting
finance incomes reinterpretation
financed indicate reinterpretations
finances indicated involve
financial indicates involved
financially indicating involvement
financier indication involves
financiers indications involving
financing indicative uninvolved
3
issue occurrence requirement
issued occurrences requirements
issues occurring requires
issuing occurs requiring
labour reoccur research
labor reoccurred researched
labored reoccurring researcher
labors reoccurs researchers
laboured percent researches
labouring percentage researching
labours percentages respond
legal period responded
illegal periodic respondent
illegality periodical respondents
illegally periodically responding
legality periodicals responds
legally periods response
legislate policy responses
legislated policies responsive
legislates principle responsiveness
legislating principled unresponsive
legislation principles role
legislative unprincipled roles
legislator proceed section
legislators procedural sectioned
legislature procedure sectioning
major procedures sections
majorities proceeded sector
majority proceeding sectors
method proceedings significant
methodical proceeds insignificant
methodological process insignificantly
methodologies processed significance
methodology processes significantly
methods processing signified
occur require signifies
occurred required signify
4
signifying structures
similar structuring
dissimilar unstructured
similarities theory
similarity theoretical
similarly theoretically
source theories
sourced theorist
sources theorists
sourcing vary
specific invariable
specifically invariably
specification variability
specifications variable
specificity variables
specifics variably
structure variance
restructure variant
restructured variants
restructures variation
restructuring variations
structural varied
structurally varies
structured varying
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Sublist 2 of the Academic Word List
Sublist 4 of the Academic Word List
access approximating communicate
accessed approximation communicable
accesses approximations communicated
accessibility attitude communicates
accessible attitudes communicating
accessing attribute communication
inaccessible attributable communications
adequate attributed communicative
adequacy attributes communicatively
adequately attributing uncommunicative
inadequacies attribution concentrate
inadequacy civil concentrated
inadequate code concentrates
inadequately coded concentrating
annual codes concentration
annually coding confer
apparent commit conference
apparently commitment conferences
approximate commitments conferred
approximated commits conferring
approximately committed confers
approximates committing contrast
contrasted ethnicity integrated
contrasting goal integrates
contrastive goals integrating
contrasts grant integration
cycle granted internal
cycled granting internalise
cycles grants internalised
cyclic hence internalises
cyclical hypothesis internalising
cycling hypotheses internalize
debate hypothesise internalized
debatable hypothesised internalizes
debated hypothesises internalizing
debates hypothesising internally
debating hypothesize investigate
despite hypothesized investigated
dimension hypothesizes investigates
dimensional hypothesizing investigating
dimensions hypothetical investigation
multidimensional hypothetically investigations
domestic implement investigative
domestically implementation investigator
domesticate implemented investigators
domesticated implementing job
domesticating implements jobs
domestics implicate label
emerge implicated labeled
emerged implicates labeling
emergence implicating labelled
emergent implication labelling
emerges implications labels
emerging impose mechanism
error imposed mechanisms
erroneous imposes obvious
erroneously imposing obviously
errors imposition occupy
ethnic integrate occupancy
occupant unpredictability retention
occupants unpredictable retentive
occupation principal series
occupational principally statistic
occupations prior statistician
occupied professional statisticians
occupier professionally statistical
occupiers professionals statistically
occupies professionalism statistics
occupying project status
option projected stress
optional projecting stressed
options projection stresses
output projections stressful
outputs projects stressing
overall promote unstressed
parallel promoted subsequent
paralleled promoter subsequently
parallelled promoters sum
parallelling promotes summation
parallels promoting summed
unparalleled promotion summing
parameter promotions sums
parameters regime summary
phase regimes summaries
phased resolve summarise
phases resolution summarised
phasing resolved summarises
predict resolves summarising
predictability resolving summarisation
predictable unresolved summarisations
predictably retain summarization
predicted retained summarizations
predicting retaining summarize
prediction retainer summarized
predictions retainers summarizes
predicts retains summarizing
undertake undertakes undertook
undertaken undertaking
Sublist 5 of the Academic Word List