Academic Word List (AWL) Sublist 6

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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 6

1. intelligence
2. transformation
3. presumption
4. acknowledged
5. utility
6. furthermore
7. accurate
8. diversity
9. attached
10. recovery
11. assigned
12. tapes
13. motivation
14. bond
15. edition
16. nevertheless
17. transport
18. cited
19. fees
20. scope
21. enhanced
22. incorporated
23. instructions
24. subsidiary
25. input
26. abstract
27. ministry
28. capable
29. expert
30. preceding
31. display
32. incentive
33. inhibition
34. trace
35. ignored
36. incidence
37. estate
38. cooperative
39. revealed
40. index
41. lecture
42. discrimination
43. overseas
44. explicit
45. aggregate
46. gender
47. underlying
48. brief
49. domain
50. rational
51. minimum
52. interval
53. neutral
54. migration
55. flexibility
56. federal
57. author
58. initiatives
59. allocation
60. exceed