Wiktionary:New Academic Word List
This list was created by Dr. Charles Browne, Dr. Brent Culligan, and Joseph Phillips in 2013. It was created to be a list of "the most important words for understanding academic text" [1], in addition to the words found in the New General Service List.
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repertoire • obtain • distribution • parameter • aspect • dynamic • impact • domain • publish • denote • authority • semantic • par • ion • matrix • linear • cognitive • graph • correlation • linguistic • acid • induce • velocity • interval • discourse • finite • stimulus • vector • electron • receptor • theorem • algorithm • fluid • developmental • bound • molecular • transformation • spatial • coefficient • translation • membrane • neuron • simulation • lexical • regime • variance • molecule • marker • empirical • robot • statistical • vowel • equilibrium • intensity • regression • diagnosis • identification • node • candidate • partial • correlate • mortality • antibody • temporal • particle • duration • behavioral • consumption • bilingual • sensitivity • similarity • optimal • explicit • mutation • colonial • spectrum • phonological • nucleus • onset • integration • dominant • pathway • coordinate • calculation • precede • subset • syntactic • orientation • proposition • inequality • identical • prevalence • differential • generalize • beam • pulse • norm • trait • prediction • correspondence • essentially • syllable • chromosome • infect • magnetic • configuration • numerical • namely • intermediate • transmission • dose • occurrence • maternal • axis • rational • locus • elite • approximation • thesis • sin • classification • threshold • syndrome • comparative • activate • adolescent • vocabulary • utterance • encode • facilitate • incidence • induction • trajectory • manuscript • commonly • grammatical • accuracy • adaptation • amplitude • cortex • minimal • systematic • horizontal • projection • synthesis • diameter • cone • dependence • organism • emergence • overlap • substitution • explicitly • evident • conceptual • detection • interact • neural • chronic • integral • enzyme • conference • conception • ex- • ideology • sperm • quantitative • sphere • instability • mediate • specification • classify • physician • computation • oral • mid- • indicator • variant • evolutionary • feedback • collective • arbitrary • fraction • estimation • nonlinear • compact • deviation • diagram • tropical • morphology • thereby • syntax • defect • separation • convergence • sufficiently • valid • interface • radiation • vertical
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embed • acute • utility • complement • leaf • verbal • aggregate • equality • corpus • organ • gradient • methodology • entity • tumor • fiber • paradigm • psychology • infinite • diverse • diagnostic • continuity • variability • outer • notation • probe • migration • mathematical • likelihood • comparable • magnitude • array • inclusion • emission • inference • non- • consciousness • simultaneously • disturbance • hierarchy • rotation • validity • periodic • archaeology • atom • modification • partition • initiate • autonomy • inhibit • consonant • biology • scenario • conditional • contrary • discrete • classroom • morphological • lateral • injection • effectiveness • insect • logical • calculus • usage • longitudinal • neutral • client • marginal • characterization • ethical • superior • approximate • composer • singular • converge • fetal • comprehension • implicit • span • oxygen • formulation • dialect • colony • immune • loop • algebra • derivative • appendix • overview • diffusion • specimen • assert • widespread • competence • residual • fusion • conservation • constrain • virtue • differentiate • amino • partially • preliminary • philosophical • pre- • transaction • prominent • indigenous • render • independently • symbolic • utilize • physiological • indirect • assembly • calcium • strictly • unity • psychiatric • critique • differentiation • closure • minimize • selective • availability • depict • cue • parental • ritual • fertility • adjacent • observer • readily • inhibition • questionnaire • generalization • qualitative • tense • locally • transcription • nutrient • reinforce • simulate • statistically • dense • ecology • null • terminal • informal • discharge • adaptive • ecological • protocol • progressive • aesthetic • exploit • agriculture • practitioner • occupation • equivalence • pragmatic • productivity • arrow • reproduce • commentary • residue • unstable • consensus • simplify • radius • artificial • harvest • suicide • pi • monkey • habitat • assignment • replicate • mechanical • disability • cattle • purely • contradiction • scatter • problematic • correction • linguistics • hormone • primitive • ethics • accumulation • static • consent • substrate • straightforward • discrimination • separately • randomize • sensory • confine
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mineral • peripheral • spontaneous • reliability • clone • orient • elaborate • nominal • insert • reproduction • dominance • allocation • lung • productive • decay • conscious • thickness • transmit • conceive • offspring • resemble • circulation • correctly • necessity • metaphor • tract • liver • subjective • accumulate • rejection • maximize • replacement • amongst • complication • valve • plural • absorption • monetary • thermal • likewise • tolerance • articulate • donor • flux • mobility • manipulation • elevate • nationalism • analogy • adverse • plausible • nitrogen • vein • controversy • wheat • rewrite • manual • strategic • peasant • absorb • sketch • justification • lifetime • binary • definite • contour • execution • rhythm • ultimate • dictionary • constitution • acceleration • undermine • disadvantage • myth • strand • unify • randomly • philosopher • pronounce • workshop • objection • meaningful • wavelength • diagnose • accent • realm • replication • basin • admission • interestingly • clarify • grid • curriculum • displacement • coherent • standardize • civilization • positively • bacterial • deficiency • legitimate • sophisticate • accelerate • exponential • formally • socially • accurately • influential • progression • essence • cylinder • scholarship • sodium • predominantly • impulse • oscillation • theorist • manipulate • alliance • crystal • importantly • stack • drift • nest • fossil • resistant • dimensional • punishment • rhetoric • artifact • carrier • surgical • coordination • turbulent • quantum • sediment • ray • conserve • primer • grasp • bulk • terminology • vegetation • triangle • traditionally • execute • intensive • reconstruct • broadly • metabolism • revolutionary • merge • dilemma • motif • motive • subtle • clinic • allocate • hydrogen • dissertation • susceptible • architect • coronary • breakdown • inject • economist • momentum • polar • backward • multiply • morality • communicative • physically • rainfall • politically • invasion • inevitably • capitalism • expertise • inferior • actively • quotation • composite • historically • textbook • bundle • elementary • capitalist • flexibility • cord • realistic • initiation • horizon • consultation • ruler • freely • rotate • commodity • elevation
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intervene • compensate • atomic • trivial • stance • stabilize • profound • whereby • ancestor • genetics • proton • phosphate • gravity • pole • puzzle • respiratory • elimination • exit • corruption • circulate • obscure • contradict • interfere • trauma • upward • gross • optical • communist • continent • physics • viable • limb • retrieve • presume • rationality • stereotype • slavery • artistic • faculty • anthropology • antibiotic • portray • chemistry • sexuality • axiom • pest • fracture • transplant • goods • shortly • epidemic • inversion • irrelevant • mechanic • epidemiology • dissolve • fatigue • nonetheless • bargain • infectious • individually • psychologist • trans- • irrigation • diary • treaty • rehabilitation • illusion • bat • optimum • fever • paradox • kidney • predator • migrate • infinity • shallow • fundamentally • synthetic • solar • hepatitis • ton • bubble • bracket • elasticity • cure • contradictory • sensation • sustainable • elastic • machinery • dictate • vitamin • incline • leisure • enforcement • prey • cyclic • clue • friction • parenthesis • noble • potassium • reactive • genetically • bacteria • wisdom • crude • realism • deliberately • chemotherapy • surplus • capillary • directive • globalization • alien • portfolio • monopoly • lifestyle • invert • thread • clay • dye • transcribe • dilute • tribe • damp • economically • critically • secrete • hip • plantation • prejudice • onwards • anti- • helix • interrupt • domination • undergraduate • soluble • innate • dioxide • goat • emit • confound • competent • degrade • layout • fabric • container • fungus • reservoir • footnote • bodily • niche • vague • affirm • urine • afterward • jazz • antiquity • unemployed • toxic • yeast • punish • forum • bleed • overhead • republic • processor • goodness • audit • comply • legend • slot • drain • abdominal • media • tempt • outlet • precipitation • invade • interviewer • apple • planner • supposedly • gut • swell • emperor • altitude • gauge • transparency • sub- • blank • chloride • sensible • weave • destination • precipitate • painful
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industrialization • lab • seminar • minus • conduction • audio • subtract • facet • splice • incumbent • biodiversity • chunk • credibility • tutor • super • fin • aluminum • gram • liable • marble • pesticide • technically • fringe • messenger • biologist • connotation • delta • tremendous • snake • flesh • ghost • marrow • surgeon • instinct • industrialize • denominator • stripe • junior • solvent • kilometer • slab • click • hedge • spray • cinema • plug • naked • indifference • erase • powder • micro • clip • solute • dissection • censor • portrayal • thumb • acidic • uplift • flip • congruent • parcel • lecturer • skip • poster • sword • photographic • auction • barrel • mentor • nicely • lump • quiz • watershed • liter • oxidize • mercury • noisy • headquarter • phenomenal • multinational • comma • bizarre • specialty • socialize • enormously • novice • rope • campus • clever • mole • sometime • bucket • swap • recipe • airplane • deflection • deceive • syllabus • neat • factorial • lever • descriptor • semester • underneath • reactor • herbicide • bonus • cheat • missile • rub • radar • memorize • scripture • whoever • whichever • bullet • punch • postgraduate • artwork • pardon • millimeter • incredible • halfway • deadline • bang • semi- • slash • ridiculous • homework • multi • volition • tricky • cheer • shuttle • aerosol • athletic • chess • terribly • unintelligible • circa • scroll • sponsorship • connector • nasty • incredibly • neo- • entrant • hawk • handout • tech • rack • applause • demonstrator • calculator • mall • sneeze • sniff • descendent