High-Mileage Words - Academic Word List Sublists

Sep 14, 2026

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Vocabulary resource for GED classroom learning, presenting sublists from the Academic Word List with emphasis on “high-mileage” academic vocabulary. Explains that each italicised entry is the most frequent word-family member in the Academic Corpus, including British and American spellings within shared families. Details sublist organization by frequency across 60 families per sublist, except sublist 10 with 30, and begins Sublist 1 with extensive example word-family forms and related derivatives.

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Vocabulary Resource for the GED Classroom

Sublists of the Academic Word List

High-Mileage Words

Vocabulary Resource for the GED ® Classroom Sublists of the Academic Word List High-Mileage Words Dr. Averil Coxhead Senior Lecturer School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington Sublists of the Academic Word List Each word in italics is the most frequently occurring member of the word family in the Academic Corpus. For example, analysis is the most common form of the word family analyse. British and American spelling is included in the word families, so contextualise and contextualize are both included in the family context. Sublist 1 contains the most common words in the AWL. Sublist 2 contains the next most common words, and so on. There are 60 families in each sublist, except for sublist 10 which has 30. Sublist 1 of the Academic Word List analyse analysed analyser analysers analyses analysing analysis analyst analysts analytic analytical analytically analyze analyzed analyzes analyzing approach approachable approached approaches approaching unapproachable area areas assess assessable assessed assesses assessing assessment assessments reassess reassessed reassessing reassessment unassessed assume assumed assumes assuming assumption assumptions authority authoritative authorities available availability unavailable benefit beneficial beneficiary beneficiaries benefited benefiting benefits concept conception concepts conceptual conceptualisation conceptualise conceptualised conceptualises conceptualising conceptually consist consisted consistency consistent consistently consisting consists inconsistencies inconsistency inconsistent constitute constituencies constituency constituent constituents constituted constitutes constituting constitution constitutions constitutional constitutionally constitutive unconstitutional context contexts contextual contextualise contextualised contextualisinguncontextualised contextualize contextualized contextualizinguncontextualized contract contracted contracting contractor contractors contracts create created creates creating creation creations creative creatively creativity creator creators recreate recreated recreates recreating data define definable defined defines defining definition definitions redefine redefined redefines redefining undefined derive derivation derivations derivative derivatives derived derives deriving distribute distributed distributing distribution distributional distributions distributive distributor distributors redistribute redistributed redistributes redistributing redistribution economy economic economical economically economics economies economist economists uneconomical environment environmental environmentalist environmentalists environmentally environments establish disestablish disestablished disestablishes disestablishing disestablishment established establishes establishing establishment establishments estimate estimated estimates estimating estimation estimations over-estimate overestimate overestimated overestimates overestimating underestimate underestimated underestimates underestimating evident evidenced evidence evidential evidently export exported exporter exporters exporting exports factor factored factoring factors finance financed finances financial financially financier financiers financing formula formulae formulas formulate formulated formulating formulation formulations reformulate reformulated reformulating reformulation reformulations function functional functionally functioned functioning functions identify identifiable identification identified identifies identifying identities identi

FAQs

What does “high-mileage” mean in this vocabulary resource?

Each italicised word is the most frequently occurring member of its word family in the Academic Corpus, making the items high-frequency for academic use.

How are the Academic Word List sublists organized?

Sublist 1 contains the most common AWL words, and subsequent sublists contain progressively less common word families. Each sublist normally has 60 families, except sublist 10 which has 30.

Are British and American spellings included in the word families?

Yes. The resource includes both British and American spelling variants within the same word-family context.

Sep 14, 2026

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