Academic Word List (AWL) Sublist 4

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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 4

1. overall
2. emerged
3. regime
4. implementation
5. project
6. hence
7. occupational
8. internal
9. goals
10. retained
11. sum
12. integration
13. mechanism
14. parallel
15. imposed
16. despite
17. job
18. parameters
19. approximate
20. label
21. concentration
22. principal
23. series
24. predicted
25. summary
26. attitudes
27. undertaken
28. cycle
29. communication
30. ethnic
31. hypothesis
32. professional
33. status
34. conference
35. attributed
36. annual
37. obvious
38. error
39. implications
40. apparent
41. commitment
42. subsequent
43. debate
44. dimensions
45. promote
46. statistics
47. option
48. domestic
49. output
50. access
51. code
52. investigation
53. phase
54. prior
55. granted
56. stress
57. civil
58. contrast
59. resolution
60. adequate