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abnormal abstract academic accurate adequate adjacent amorphous angular annual anonyous appropriate approximate automatic averse aware capable civic
classic cogent colloquial concentric consequent constant contingent contrary corporate credible
crucial crystal cumbersome deficient definite dense distinct diverse divine domestic drastic dynamic dfficient elaborate elicit eloquent empirical equidistant equivalent eventual evident explicit external feasible federal fertile
final
finite
fluent fundamental genuine homogeneous hostile
huge identical imperial implicit incessant incompatible inconsistent indigenous ingenious inherent initial
innate intelligent intense intermediate internal inverse
judicial kindred legal legitimate
liable linguistic magnetic major meterial maternal mature mental miliarty minor mobile
moist negative neutral
novel
nuclear obvious
odd
partisan passive perpendicular perpetual pertinent physical positive potential pragmatic
supreme synthetic tangible temporary tense tentative
The 160 Most Essential Academic Adjectives
(Nation [1990] Extracted
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precise
premininary
previous
radical
random
rational
reluctant thermal respective tiny
rigid transparent rudimenarry trivial
rural tropical scalar ultimate secure unduly similar urban simulatneous utter solar vague sophisticated valid spatial vast spontaneous verbal stable vertical stationary
subjective subordinate subsequent subtle superficial superior
As with the teaching of nouns and verbs in academic writing, contextualized substitutions of adjectives represent one of the easiest techniques to produce lexically diverse constructions and text. In the case of some of the University List adjectives, lexical replacementsmay not be possible in some contexts. For example, it would be difficult to
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When adjective and noun forms or adjective and verb forms are identical, they are in-
cluded on both lists.
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