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Academic Vocabulary
Adjective + Preposition Combinations Frequently Used in Academic Writing
associated with capable of different from known as responsible for
aware of concerned about interested in related to similar to
Source: Corpus of Contemporary American English (Davies 2008–)
ACTIVITY 8 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
Urban Studies 1. The citizens’ questions about building new hotels in their city are
their questions about other new development plans.
English 2. Reading about other people’s choices in different situations can help people
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become more their own life choices.
Sociology 3. Sociologists who study the roles of women in different cultures consider the
attitudes their positions at home and at work.
Economics 4. Credit card debt is very other kinds of debt because
not paying credit card bills can cause long-term financial problems.
Psychology 5. Freud’s theories about the unconscious mind’s influence on human behavior are
very closely his theories about human instincts.
Biology 6. The study of fish and other creatures in lakes and oceans is
aquatic biomonitoring.
Public Health 7. The local government is the long waits and the low
quality of care in the new neighborhood clinics.
Education 8. The tutors are generally helping the writing students
improve their second drafts.
Business 9. Everyone hoped that the young CEO was running his
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father’s business.
History 10. The first colonists in America were learning from the
Native Americans. They especially wanted to know which crops to grow.
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