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sector • available • financial • process • individual • specific • principle • estimate • variables • method • data • research • contract • environment • export • source • assessment • policy •identified • create • derived • factors • procedure • definition • assume • theory • benefit • evidence • established • authority • major • issues • labour • occur • economic • involved • percent• interpretation • consistent • income • structure • legal • concept • formula • section • required • constitutional • analysis • distribution • function • area • approach • role • legislation •indicate • response • period • context • significant • similar •

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community • resident • range • construction • strategies • elements • previous • conclusion • security • aspects • acquisition • features • text • commission • regulations • computer • items• consumer • achieve • final • positive • evaluation • assistance • normal • relevant • distinction • region • traditional • impact • consequences • chapter • equation • appropriate • resources •participation • survey • potential • cultural • transfer • select •credit • affect • categories • perceived • sought • focus • purchase • injury • site • journal • primary • complex • institute •investment • administration • maintenance • design • obtained • restricted • conduct

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comments • convention • published • framework • implies • negative • dominant • illustrated • outcomes • constant • shift • deduction • ensure • specified • justification • funds • reliance •physical • partnership • location • link • coordination • alternative • initial • validity • task • techniques • excluded • consent • proportion • demonstrate • reaction • criteria • minorities •technology • philosophy • removed • sex • compensation • sequence • corresponding • maximum • circumstances • instance • considerable • sufficient • corporate • interaction •contribution • immigration • component • constraints • technical • emphasis • scheme • layer • volume • document • registered • core •

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overall • emerged • regime • implementation • project • hence • occupational • internal • goals • retained • sum • integration • mechanism • parallel • imposed • despite • job • parameters •approximate • label • concentration • principal • series • predicted • summary • attitudes • undertaken • cycle • communication • ethnic • hypothesis • professional • status • conference •attributed • annual • obvious • error • implications • apparent • commitment • subsequent • debate • dimensions • promote • statistics • option • domestic • output • access • code •investigation • phase • prior • granted • stress • civil • contrast • resolution • adequate •

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alter • stability • energy • aware • licence • enforcement • draft • styles • precise • medical • pursue • symbolic • marginal • capacity • generation • exposure • decline • academic • modified• external • psychology • fundamental • adjustment • ratio • whereas • enable • version • perspective • contact • network • facilitate • welfare • transition • amendment • logic • rejected •expansion • clause • prime • target • objective • sustainable • equivalent • liberal • notion • substitution • generated • trend • revenue • compounds • evolution • conflict • image • discretion •entities • orientation • consultation • mental • monitoring • challenge •

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intelligence • transformation • presumption • acknowledged • utility • furthermore • accurate • diversity • attached • recovery • assigned • tapes • motivation • bond • edition • nevertheless •transport • cited • fees • scope • enhanced • incorporated • instructions • subsidiary • input • abstract • ministry • capable • expert • preceding • display • incentive • inhibition • trace •ignored • incidence • estate • cooperative • revealed • index • lecture • discrimination • overseas • explicit • aggregate • gender • underlying • brief • domain • rational • minimum • interval •neutral • migration • flexibility • federal • author • initiatives • allocation • exceed •

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intervention • confirmed • definite • classical • chemical • voluntary • release • visible • finite • publication • channel • file • thesis • equipment • disposal • solely • deny • identical • submitted • grade • phenomenon • paradigm • ultimately • extract • survive • converted •  transmission • global • inferred • guarantee • advocate • dynamic • simulation • topic • insert •reverse • decades • comprise • hierarchical • unique • comprehensive • couple • mode • differentiation • eliminate • priority • empirical • ideology • somewhat • aid • foundation • adults •adaptation • quotation • contrary • media • successive • innovation • prohibited • isolated •

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highlighted • eventually • inspection • termination • displacement • arbitrary • reinforced • denote • offset • exploitation • detected • abandon • random • revision • virtually • uniform •predominantly • thereby • implicit • tension • ambiguous • vehicle • clarity • conformity • contemporary • automatically • accumulation • appendix • widespread • infrastructure • deviation •fluctuations • restore • guidelines • commodity • minimises •practitioners • radical • plus • visual • chart • appreciation • prospect • dramatic • contradiction • currency • inevitably •complement • accompany • paragraph • induced • schedule • intensity • crucial • via • exhibit • bias • manipulation • theme • nuclear •

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bulk • behalf • unified • commenced • erosion • anticipated • minimal • ceases • vision • mutual • norms • intermediate • manual • supplementary • incompatible • concurrent • ethical •preliminary • integral • conversely • relaxed • confined • accommodation • temporary • distorted • passive • subordinate • analogous • military • scenario • revolution • diminished •coherence • suspended • mature • assurance • rigid • controversy • sphere • mediation • format • trigger • qualitative • portion • medium • coincide • violation • device • insights • refine •devoted • team • overlap • attained • restraints • inherent • route • protocol • founded • duration •

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whereby • inclination • encountered • convinced • assembly • albeit • enormous • reluctant • posed • persistent • undergo • notwithstanding • straightforward • panel • odd • intrinsic •compiled • adjacent • integrity • forthcoming • conceived • ongoing • so-called • likewise • nonetheless • levy • invoked • colleagues • depression • collapse •

The Academic Word List (AWL) is made up of the 570 most common academic words found in academic texts. As you prepare for the test, get into the habit of learning 10 – 15 of these words every week. In this way, you will be better able to understand academic texts and express yourself in academic language.

To help you learn the words on the academic word list, we have built an Android app called Key English | IELTS Vocabulary. We have organized the vocabulary of the Academic Word List from most to least common. The app enables you to play a range of games with academic vocabulary to help you learn and remember the definitions, examples, synonyms, word-types and spelling.

Below is the Academic Word List.

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In this post we put together best list of vocabulary words for IELTS exam. Strong IELTS vocabulary is key to get a high score in your exam. Easiest way to improve your vocabulary is using synonyms for common English words. Synonym words are awesome way to get a great score in IELTS exam. These word pairs organized for reading and writing section.

You can also download IELTS Academic Wordlist at the end of this page.

  • Vocabulary Words for IELTS List 1

Blameless  innocent
Crazy  insane
Noted  famous
Madness  insanity
Arrogant  haughty
Awful  terrible
To disclaim  to deny
To vary  to differ
Accurate  correct
Sacristy  vestry
Dreadful  terrible
Immoderate  excessive
Cozy  comfortable
Garbage can  trashcan
Perception  insight
Warranty guarantee
Immediate  instant
Mind  intellect
Vague  indistinct
Understandable  comprehensible
Indisputable  undeniable
Terror  terrorism
Highbrow  intellectual
Cube  dice
Remoted  isolated
Well timed  timely
Gratuity  tip
Disadvantaged  deprived
Abundant  ample
To misconceive  to misunderstand
Denims  jeans
Connect  join
Ecstasy  joy
Magistrate  justice of the peace
Eager  keen
Wise  knowing
Crusade  campaign
To establish  to set up
Neutral  impartial
Vicious  ferocious
Interplay  interaction
To desert  to abandon
Touchdown  landing
Oblique  indirect
To accomplish  to achieve
Hashish  cannabis
To close  to shut
Defective  faulty
Mischievous  impish
Dormant  inactive
Idle  lazy
Turbulent  blustering
To disclose  to reveal
Dally  loiter
Isolated  lonely
Missing  lost
Drab  dull
Fortunate  lucky
Hearsay rumor
Mendacity  lying
Superb  magnificent
Leading  main
Chiefly  mainly
Aggressive  militant
Noon  midday
Vague  indistinct
Misfortune  mishap
Misread  misinterpret
Deceptive  misleading
Lacking  missing
Jealous  envious
Doubt  mistrust
Wrong  mistaken
Away  absent
To notify  to inform
Mannequin  model
Dicey  risky
Empty  drain
Misery  distress
Impartial  neutral
Impartial  neutral
To behave  to act
Bendy  flexible
Extra  additional

Vocabulary List for IELTS 2

To administer  to manage
Murderer  assassin
To maintain  to preserve
Mediocre  fair
Aromatic  fragrant
Dispute  debate
Ambitious  aspiring
To foretell  to predict
To ignore  to disregard
Virtue  advantage
To cope  to manage
Appreciable  considerable
Disagreeable  unpleasant
Rubbish  nonsense
To bear on sth.  to affect
Lousy  awful
To consult  to refer to
Cranky  cross
Mackintosh  waterproof coat
Pocket book  notebook
Middleman  intermediary
Paper money  notes
Infamous  notorious
Mirth  fun
Selection  choice
To quake  to tremble
Today  nowadays
Hate loathe
Mean  unkind
Contaminate  defile
Impediment  obstacle
Construction (lit.)  interpretation
Hostile  antagonistic
To function  to operate
Apparent  obvious
Comfort  consolation
Unstated  unspoken
Enormous  huge, immense
Sincere  honest
Imperfect  faulty
Obsolete  out of date
Above  overhead
Total  entire,
Twosome  pair
Especially  particularly
Monotonous  boring
To hurry  to rush
Ardor  passion
Gut  intestine
Identical  duplicate
Immodest  conceited
Untrue  unfaithful
Achieve  accomplish
To annoy  to irritate, to bother
Awkward  clumsy
Completely  totally
To elevate  to raise, to promote
Insolvent  bankrupt
To rue  to regret
Essential  fundamental
Peaceable  peaceful
Nightfall  dusk
Handsome  good
Stupid  dense
Zenith  peak
Vacant  empty
Fragrance  perfume
Maybe  perhaps, possibly
Aid  help, assist
Bad (not good)  poor, naughty
Magician  conjurer
Unfortunate  unlucky
Gravestone  headstone
Housebreaking  burglary
To grab  to seize
Refrain  chorus
To disappear  to vanish
Painting  portray
Adjourn  postpone
Instructions  directions
Momentous  powerful
Priority  precedence
Stationary  fixed
Praise  compliment
Insufferable  unbearable
Previous  preceding
Exactly  precisely
Mistrust  distrust
Early  premature
Untimely  premature
Antagonize  provoke
Citation  quotation
Naughty  disobedient
Cheesy  corny, tacky
Huge  vast
Hole  gap
Magnify  expand
Lethal  deadly
Immune  exempt
Mourn  grieve
Ban  forbid
Infrequent  rare
Spontaneous  automatic
To cite  to quote
Uncooked  raw
Arrive  reach, come
Dark  dismal
Unlawful  illegal
Knowingly  deliberately
Moderately  reasonably
Insurgent  rebel
Uprising  rebellion
Clerk  receptionist
Miserable  depressing
Curative  healing
Equity  fairness
Immature  inexperienced
Artful  crafty
Practically  virtually
Conscious  aware
To arrive  to reach
Apparent  evident
Crook  criminal
Unvoiced  voiceless

Vocabulary Words for IELTS List 3

Negligent  inattentive
To differentiate  to distinguish
Inferior  substandard
Win  succeed
Hold  grasp
To nominate  to appoint
To near  to approach
To impact  to affect
Charter  constitution
Eccentric  unusual
Consecutive  successive
Morose  sullen
Disagree  differ
Invoice  bill
To withstand  to resist
Insupportable  intolerable
Meeting  assembly
To convey  to communicate
To denationalize  to privatize
Abstract  summary
Attractive  appealing
Illiberal  intolerant
To overhaul  to overtake
Anyway  besides
To respond  to reply
Precis  summary
Dry  arid
To minimize  to play down
Satisfied  convinced
Vain  useless
To conform  to comply
Conflict  clash
Twister  tornado
To float  to drift
Instinct  intuition
To admit  to confess
To intensify  to heighten
Intriguing  fascinating
Moderate  lenient
Minor  lesser
To infect  to contaminate
To vacuum  to hoover
Removable  detachable
Sundown  sunset
Joy  delight
Encourage  support
Class  lesson, course
To vanquish  to conquer
Turmoil  disturbance
To transform  to convert
To deprave  to corrupt
To chop  to cut
To diminish  to decrease
To involve  to entail
To magnify  to exaggerate
Constancy  fidelity
Ornament  decoration
Diminish  curtail
Nugatory  worthless
Revolting  disgusting
Torpid  lethargic
Prompt  immediate
To operate  to function
Vast  huge
To inspect  to examine
To collect  to gather
Impetuous  reckless
To receive  to get
Beneficent  generous
Nameless  anonymous
To confuse  to mix up
Overseas  abroad
To deduce  to infer
High  elevated
Convalesce  recover
Outside  external
To renounce  to give up
More and more  increasingly
To grouse  to grumble
To assure  to guarantee
Advocate  support
Coiffure  hairstyle
Forehead  brow
Discount  reduction
To appear  to seem
Except  apart from
To survive  to outlive
Migrant  drifting
Dead  lifeless
Notwithstanding  however
A native  a local
To visualize  to imagine
Informal  casual
To begin  to start
Infuriate  enrage
Animated  lively
Chorus  refrain
Necessary  essential
Provided  if
Remorse  regret
Domesticate  cultivate
Steady  regular
Testament  testimony
If  whether
Applicable  relevant
Difficult  hard
Trustworthy  reliable
Mend  repair
Moral  ethical
Nobility  the aristocracy
Repute  reputation
Abbreviate  condense
Unhurt  unharmed
Imperative  crucial
Dilute  weaken, thin
Prosperous  affluent
To fabricate  to manufacture
Reasonable  fair
Idler  loafer
Mandatory  required
Suppress  restrain
Dossier  file
Lucid  clear
Complete  total
Diverse  distinct
Backside  behind, bottom
To answer  to reply
Home  domestic
Matters  things
Correct  right
Brow  forehead
Remainder  the rest
Object  thing
Hermetic  airtight
To learn  to memorize
Considerate  thoughtful
Considerate  thoughtful
Urgent  important
Inconsiderate  thoughtless
Silly  foolish

IELTS Words with Meaning List 4

Words  Meanings
To evaluate  to assess
Substantially  considerably
Dangerous  unsafe
Hall  corridor
French dressing  vinaigrette
To explode  to blow up
To collapse  to break down
To accumulate  to build up
Livid  furious
Remark  comment
Vibrate  tremble
Inflexible  rigid
To select  to choose
Spotlight  highlight
To illuminate  to clarify; to light up
Disaster  catastrophe
To encounter  to come across
To emphasize  to stress
Innocent  harmless
Undeniable  indisputable
Humiliate  embarrass
Beautiful  attractive
To impeach  to question
Bloodless  cold
Hard  tough
Dubious  doubtful
Reliable  dependable
Material  fabric
Infantile  childish
To imagine  to suppose, to assume
Clever  intelligent
Deliberately  intentionally
Last  final
Brave  courageous
Winery  vineyard

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IELTS Academic word list. A worksheet to enhance vocabulary to improve speaking, writing and reading skills

IELTS Academic word list


Vocabulary plays an important role in everyone’s life and with this PDF we would like to help you enhance your vocabulary to improve speaking and writing skills.

Vocabulary is equally important for reading and writing. By knowing a lot of prevalent words you will understand the reading texts better. Moreover, vocabulary is one of the four marking criteria used to assess you IELTS writing. So one of the secrets of a successful essay is a broad range of vocabulary.

Simply memorizing the words is not enough: you need to know how to adopt the words in your writing.

In this PDF you will find several topics . These words will help you write about the topic or talk about it in the test.


Here is the word list:

List 1

Words 1-10 Words 11-20 Words 21-30 Words 31-40 Words 41-50
achieve
administration
affect
analysis
approach
appropriate
area
aspects
assistance
assume
authority
available
benefit
category
community
complex
concerning
conclusion
conduct 
consequence
consistent
constitutional
consumer
context
create
culture
data
definition
destructive
discovery
distinction
economic
element
environment
error
equation
establish
estimate
evaluation
evidence
factors
feature
final
financial
focus
function
global
identify
impact
income
Words 51-60 Words 61-70 Words 71-80 Words 81-90 Words 91-100
indicate
individual
injury
investment
involve
issue
item
legal
maintenance
major
media
method
modern
normal
obtain
restrict
occur
participation
percent
period
policy
positive
potential
previous
primary
process
purchase
range
recent
region
regulations
relevant
require
research
resident
resources
response
sector
security
significant
similar
solution
source
specific
strategy
structure
theory
threat
traditional
transport

List 2

Words 1-10 Words 11-20 Words 21-30 Words 31-40 Words 41-50
access
activity
alter
alternative
amendment
annual
apparent
application
approximate
artificial
attitude
aware
capacity
challenge 
circumstance
comment
communication
concentration
conflict
considerable
constant
contact
contribution
core
correspond
criteria
cycle
debate
decline
deduction
demonstrate
despite
dimension
domestic
dominant
emerge
emphasis
enable
energy
enforcement
ensure
equivalent
evolution
exclude
exposure
external
facilitate
fundamental
funds
generation
Words 51-60 Words 61-70 Words 71-80 Words 81-90 Words 91-100
hence
hypothesis
illustrate
image
immigration
implement
initial
integration
layer
legislation  
location
logic
marginal
maximum
mechanism
medical
mental
modification
negative
network
 occupation
option
orientation
outcome
overall
parallel
perspective
philosophy
precise
predict
project
promote
proportion
psychology
reaction
remove
resolution
specify
stability
subsequent
sufficient
summary
supply
task
technique
technology
transition
trend
version
volume

List 3

Words 1-10 Words 11-20 Words 21-30 Words 31-40 Words 41-50
abstract
accurate
acknowledge
adaptation
adequate
adjust
adult
advocate
aid
attribute
author
brief
capable
civil
classical
comprehensive 
contrary
coordination
couple
decades
definite
deny
discrimination
disposal
diversity
domain
dynamic
eliminate
equipment
estate
exceed
expansion
expert
fees
flexibility
foundation
gender
global
grade
guarantee
identical
ignorance
imply
incentive
incorporated
index
infrastructure
inhibition
innovation
instance
Words 51-60 Words 61-70 Words 71-80 Words 81-90 Words 91-100
instruction
intelligence
interact
interval
investigation
isolated
justification
lecture
liberal
migration
minimum
monitoring
motivation
neutral
obvious
overseas
parameter
phenomenon
prohibit
publish
pursue
rational
recovery
reject
release
reveal
role
satisfy
scope
sequence
simulation
solely
somewhat
status
stress
style
substitution
successive
survey
survive
sustainable
symbolic
topic
trace
transformation
ultimate
underline
unique
utility
visible

List 4

Words 1-10 Words 11-20 Words 21-30 Words 31-40 Words 41-50
accommodation
accompany
advance
analogous
anticipate
appendix
appreciate
arbitrary
assure
automatically
behalf
bias
cease
chart
clarity
coherence
coincide
commodity
confirm
contemporary
contradict
controversy
conversely
cooperate
crucial
currency
denote
detect
deviation
device
devote
differentiation
diminish
displacement
display
distorted
dramatic
duration
ethical
eventually
exhibit
explicit
exploitation
extract
federal
fluctuations
format
founded
guidelines
highlighted
Words 51-60 Words 61-70 Words 71-80 Words 81-90 Words 91-100
implicit
incompatible
induce
inevitably
inherent
intensity
intermediate
internal
manual
mature
medium
military
mutual
norms
notion
nuclear
objective
paragraph
passive
perceive
portion
precede
predominantly
priority
prospect
qualitative
radical
random
reinforce
relax
revision
revolution
scenario
schedule
sphere
suspended
target
team
temporary
tension
theme
thereby
uniform
validity
vehicle
via
violation
virtual
vision
widespread

List 5

Words 1-10 Words 11-20 Words 21-30 Words 31-40 Words 41-50
abandon
abate
abrupt
accumulation
acquisition
adjacent
aggregate
albeit
ambiguous
ancestor
assembly
assessment
assign
attain
avert
coal
collapse
colleagues
combat
commit
compile
complement
comprise
conceive
concurrent
confined
conform
confuse
consciousness
convinced
creditable
deceive
depression
derive
distribution
divergent
doubt
drastic
election
empirical
encounter
enhance
enormous
entirely
entrepreneur
erosion
forbearance
forthcoming
frustration
goal
Words 51-60 Words 61-70 Words 71-80 Words 81-90 Words 91-100
homogenous
inclination
indulge
infer
initiative
insight
inspection
integral
intervention
intrinsic
invoke
justify
likewise
link
manage
manipulation
merge
nonetheless
notwithstanding
odd
ongoing
overlap
persistent
pose
possess
preliminary
presumption
ratio
refine
relate
reluctant
restore
restraint
rigid
route
sacrifice
scale
so-called
straightforward
subordinate
substantiate
supplementary
sympathy
termination
transmission
undergo
unify
vital
voluntary
whereby

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The Academic Words Lists

The Academic World List was created by Averil Coxhead at Victoria University of Wellington,New Zealand. The AWL contains 570 words and is grouped into 10 sub-lists to aid in study and indicate level of frequency. Words in groups 1-5 are more common and appear more frequently than the words in groups 6-10. We have provided each sub-list as a free download so students can learn the words quickly without being distracted by longer lists. Enjoy this free resources and share it with your friends.


Academic Word List - Group 6

Academic Word List — Group 6

The sixth group of words in the Academic Word List. The AWL is a list of over 500 words that are likely to appear in academic settings such as classrooms and text books. The list is also helpful for those who are preparing for high level English exam like…

Academic Word List - Group 7

Academic Word List — Group 7

The 7th group of words in the Academic Word List. Improve your vocabulary with the words you need and perform well in high level English exams like the IELTS by learning these words.

Academic Word List - Group 3

Academic Word List — Group 3

The third group of words 120-180, from the Academic Word List. A list of words created to help learners of English master the vocabulary they are most likely to encounter in an Academic setting or a high level exam like the IELTS.

Academic Word List - Group 9

Academic Word List — Group 9

The 9th installment of the Academic Word List. Strengthen you word power with this essential list of words that appear frequently in academic settings and high level exams like the IELTS.

Academic Word List - Group 2

Academic Word List — Group 2

Group 2, words 61-119, of the Academic Word List. Practice these words likely to be encountered in academic readings and high level exams.

Academic Word List  - Group 5

Academic Word List — Group 5

The fifth installment of the Academic Word List. This list contains more than 500 words that are likely to appear in academic situations and are helpful for those preparing for high level English exams such as the IELTS.

Academic Word List - Group 8

Academic Word List — Group 8

The eighth group of words in the Academic Word List containing words 421-480. Great vocabulary for IELTS, TOFEL and GRE.

Academic Word List - Group 10

Academic Word List — Group 10

The tenth and final section of the Academic Word List. Free Download of the list to help you practice.

Academic Word List - Group 4

Academic Word List — Group 4

Group 4 of the Academic Word List including words 181-240. The AWL is a list words created to help students succeed in an academic setting or prepare for high level English exam like the IELTS.

Academic Word List - Group 1

Academic Word List — Group 1

Group 1 of the Academic Word list. Includes online practice and a downloadable list of all 60 words in group 1.

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