Graded Academic Words
Listed below are 570 of the most frequent academic words in children's text books, in alphabetical order with in frequency.
1st Most Frequent | analyse | approach | area | assess | assume | authority | available | benefit | concept | consist | constitute | context | contract | create | data | define | derive | distribute | economy | environment | establish | estimate | evident | export | factor | finance | formula | function | identify | income | indicate | individual | interpret | involve | issue | labour | legal | legislate | major | method | occur | percent | period | policy | principle | proceed | process | require | research | respond | role | section | sector | significant | similar | source | specific | structure | theory | vary |
| 2nd | achieve | acquire | administrate | affect | appropriate | aspect | assist | category | chapter | commission | community | complex | compute | conclude | conduct | consequent | construct | consume | credit | culture | design | distinct | element | equate | evaluate | feature | final | focus | impact | injure | institute | invest | item | journal | maintain | normal | obtain | participate | perceive | positive | potential | previous | primary | purchase | range | region | regulate | relevant | reside | resource | restrict | secure | seek | select | site | strategy | survey | text | tradition | transfer |
| 3rd | alternative | circumstance | comment | compensate | component | consent | considerable | constant | constrain | contribute | convene | coordinate | core | corporate | correspond | criteria | deduce | demonstrate | document | dominate | emphasis | ensure | exclude | framework | fund | illustrate | immigrate | imply | initial | instance | interact | justify | layer | link | locate | maximise | minor | negate | outcome | partner | philosophy | physical | proportion | publish | react | register | rely | remove | scheme | sequence | sex | shift | specify | sufficient | task | technical | technique | technology | valid | volume |
| 4th | access | adequate | annual | apparent | approximate | attitude | attribute | civil | code | commit | communicate | concentrate | confer | contrast | cycle | debate | despite | dimension | domestic | emerge | error | ethnic | goal | grant | hence | hypothesis | implement | implicate | impose | integrate | internal | investigate | job | label | mechanism | obvious | occupy | option | output | overall | parallel | parameter | phase | predict | principal | prior | professional | project | promote | regime | resolve | retain | series | statistic | status | stress | subsequent | sum | summary | undertake |
| 5th | academy | adjust | alter | amend | aware | capacity | challenge | clause | compound | conflict | consult | contact | decline | discrete | draft | enable | energy | enforce | entity | equivalent | evolve | expand | expose | external | facilitate | fundamental | generate | generation | image | liberal | licence | logic | margin | medical | mental | modify | monitor | network | notion | objective | orient | perspective | precise | prime | psychology | pursue | ratio | reject | revenue | stable | style | substitute | sustain | symbol | target | transit | trend | version | welfare | whereas |
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6th | abstract | accurate | acknowledge | aggregate | allocate | assign | attach | author | bond | brief | capable | cite | cooperate | discriminate | display | diverse | domain | edit | enhance | estate | exceed | expert | explicit | federal | fee | flexible | furthermore | gender | ignorance | incentive | incidence | incorporate | index | inhibit | initiate | input | instruct | intelligence | interval | lecture | migrate | minimum | ministry | motive | neutral | nevertheless | overseas | precede | presume | rational | recover | reveal | scope | subsidy | tape | trace | transform | transport | underlie | utilise |
| 7th | adapt | adult | advocate | aid | channel | chemical | classic | comprehensive | comprise | confirm | contrary | convert | couple | decade | definite | deny | differentiate | dispose | dynamic | eliminate | empirical | equip | extract | file | finite | foundation | globe | grade | guarantee | hierarchy | identical | ideology | infer | innovate | insert | intervene | isolate | media | mode | paradigm | phenomenon | priority | prohibit | publication | quote | release | reverse | simulate | sole | somewhat | submit | successor | survive | thesis | topic | transmit | ultimate | unique | visible | voluntary |
| 8th | abandon | accompany | accumulate | ambiguous | append | appreciate | arbitrary | automate | bias | chart | clarify | commodity | complement | conform | contemporary | contradict | crucial | currency | denote | detect | deviate | displace | drama | eventual | exhibit | exploit | fluctuate | guideline | highlight | implicit | induce | inevitable | infrastructure | inspect | intense | mallipulate | minimise | nuclear | offset | paragraph | plus | practitioner | predominant | prospect | radical | random | reinforce | restore | revise | schedule | tense | terminate | theme | thereby | uniform | vehicle | via | virtual | visual | widespread |
| 9th | accommodate | analogy | anticipate | assure | attain | behalf | bulk | cease | coherent | coincide | commence | compatible | concurrent | confine | controversy | converse | device | devote | diminish | distort | duration | erode | ethic | format | found | inherent | insight | integral | intermediate | manual | mature | mediate | medium | military | minimal | mutual | norm | overlap | passive | portion | preliminary | protocol | qualitative | refine | relax | restrain | revolution | rigid | route | scenario | sphere | subordinate | supplement | suspend | team | temporary | trigger | unify | violate | vision |
| 10th Most Frequent | adjacent | albeit | assemble | collapse | colleague | compile | conceive | convince | depress | encounter | enormous | forthcoming | incline | integrity | intrinsic | invoke | levy | likewise | nonetheless | notwithstanding | odd | ongoing | panel | persist | pose | reluctance | so-called | straightforward | undergo | whereby | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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From Coxhead, A. (2000). A New Academic Word List. TESOL Quarterly, 34(2), 213-238. |