Academic Word List (AWL) Sublist 5

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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 5

1. alter
2. stability
3. energy
4. aware
5. licence
6. enforcement
7. draft
8. styles
9. precise
10. medical
11. pursue
12. symbolic
13. marginal
14. capacity
15. generation
16. exposure
17. decline
18. academic
19. modified
20. external
21. psychology
22. fundamental
23. adjustment
24. ratio
25. whereas
26. enable
27. version
28. perspective
29. contact
30. network
31. facilitate
32. welfare
33. transition
34. amendment
35. logic
36. rejected
37. expansion
38. clause
39. prime
40. target
41. objective
42. sustainable
43. equivalent
44. liberal
45. notion
46. substitution
47. generated
48. trend
49. revenue
50. compounds
51. evolution
52. conflict
53. image
54. discretion
55. entities
56. orientation
57. consultation
58. mental
59. monitoring
60. challenge