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Academic Vocabulary

Words from the Academic Word List (Sublists 5 and 6)

aware decline fundamental notion version
capacity equivalent generation ratio whereas

Source: Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)

ACTIVITY 7 Vocabulary in Academic Writing

Use the academic vocabulary to complete the sentences. For some sentences, more than one answer is
possible.

Subject Area Example from Academic Writing
Philosophy 1. Studies show that philosophy classes help many students become more
of how they think, and in some cases they can alter the
way they view the world and solve problems.
Education 2. Students who fail repeatedly in elementary and secondary school often have the
that they cannot learn.
Political 3. Good politicians need the to connect with their voters,
Science but they also need a personality that inspires trust and confidence.

Economics 4. Droughts can cause a in fruit and vegetable harvests,
so these foods may become more expensive.
Health 5. Recent research shows that both walking and running may provide
Sciences health benefits as far as heart disease is concerned.

Linguistics 6. Most Scandinavian, Latvian, and Dutch people speak more than one language,
most British, Italian, and Portuguese people speak only
one.
History 7. British children learn a very different of what Americans
call the Revolutionary War from what American children learn.

Medicine 8. Officials are concerned about the low of physicians to
residents in urban areas, so they are taking steps to attract more physicians.
Sociology 9. The term millennials refers to the of people born after
1980 but before the mid-1990s.

Animal 10. Scientists used to claim that a difference between
Science animals and humans was that humans have the ability to use tools and animals
do not, but now most people recognize that this is not true.

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