Word families

King's College, Cambridge - photo by Andrew Dunn at Wikmedia Commons

Complete the word families from the word given. Based loosely on the Academic Word List (AWL), these exercises will give you some practice in word formation.

Finding language in context - 'academic' words

King's College, Cambridge - photo by Andrew Dunn at Wikimedia Commons

This post helps you find collocations and examples in context of the most common so-called academic words, based on The Academic Word List (see below). You can:

• look up the words in a selection of dictionaries
• look for collocations and real life example sentences with Just the Word
• look for real life examples on a variety of websites using Google Site Search.

But I'm not interested in academic English!

These words don't only appear in academic texts. They are more generally used in 'educated' English, and so appear frequently in newspaper and magazine articles, etc, and in TV news and documentary broadcasts. They are therefore useful for any advanced students wishing to increase their vocabulary, and especially useful if they are considering doing any advanced exams.