Academic Word List (AWL) Sublist 1

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The Academic Word List contains 570 word families which are frequently used in academic texts. The AWL does not include the 2,000 English words in the General Service List. It was developed by Averil Coxhead of the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand for the use of teachers and students in colleges and universities. It is divided into 10 sublists, with Sublist 1 containing the most frequent words and Sublist 10 the least frequent.

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Sublist 1

1. sector
2. available
3. financial
4. process
5. individual
6. specific
7. principle
8. estimate
9. variables
10. method
11. data
12. research
13. contract
14. environment
15. export
16. source
17. assessment
18. policy
19. identified
20. create
21. derived
22. factors
23. procedure
24. definition
25. assume
26. theory
27. benefit
28. evidence
29. established
30. authority
31. major
32. issues
33. labour
34. occur
35. economic
36. involved
37. percent
38. interpretation
39. consistent
40. income
41. structure
42. legal
43. concept
44. formula
45. section
46. required
47. constitutional
48. analysis
49. distribution
50. function
51. area
52. approach
53. role
54. legislation
55. indicate
56. response
57. period
58. context
59. significant
60. similar