Entire Academic Word List

Accentuate (v.)

to emphasize

Adept

skilled

Affinity

liking

Alleviate (v.)

to ease

Allocate (v.)

to distribute

Amalgamate (v.)

to combine or unit

Ambiguity

uncertainty

Ameliorate (v.)

to improve

Amorphous

flexible

Analogical

comparable

Arduous

difficult

Arcane

mysterious

Attenuated

reduced

Augment (v.)

to increase

Auspicious

favorable

Avant-garde

innovative

Banal

unoriginal

Beneficiary

a person who receives advantage

Bolster (v.)

to support or strengthen

Buttress (v.)

to support

Circumspect

cautious

Circumscribe (v.)

to restrict

Circumvent (v.)

to avoid

Conflate (v.)

to confuse/combine into one

Conjecture

guess

Conspicuous

noticeable

Contentious

controversial

Convene (v.)

to assemble

Corroborate (v.)

to confirm

Counterfactual

hypothetical

Dearth

lack

Deference

respect

Demarcate (v.)

to separate from

Denounce (v.)

to condemn

Detractor

critic

Discount (v.)

to disregard

Disconcerting

disturbing

Discriminating

discerning

Disparity

discrepancy

Disseminate (v.)

to spread out

Dogmatic

inflexible

Dwindle (v.)

to diminish

Ebullient

enthusiastic

Eclipse (v.)

to overshadow

Efface (v.)

to erase from surface

Efficacy

effectiveness

Emanate (v.)

to emerge

Enact (v.)

to make law

Encompass (v.)

to contain

Engender (v.)

to cause

Entrenched

firmly established

Epitomize (v.)

to be a perfect example of

Exacerbate (v.)

to make worse

Exhaustive

thorough

Extraneous

irrelevant

Extemporaneous

improvised

Extol (v.)

to praise

Extrapolate (v.)

to infer

Empirical

observed

Erratic

unpredictable

Fabricate (v.)

to make up

Haphazardly

randomly

Harbinger

indicator

Homogeneous

consistent

Impartial

unbiased

Impeccable

flawless

Impending

imminent

Imperious

domineering

Impervious

impermeable

Implicit

implied

Imposing

grand and impressive

Inadvertently

accidentally

Incongruous

unsuitable

Inconsequential

insignificant

Indifferent

unconcerned about

Ineffectual

ineffective

Ineluctable

inevitable

Ingenious

inventive

Ingenuous

naive

Insuperable

insurmountable

Intransigent

uncompromising

Inextricable

inseparable

Inimical

harmful

Innocuous

harmless

Insurmountable

unachievable

Integral

essential

Irreproachable

faultless

Latent

dormant

Laud (v.)

to praise

Lucrative

profitable

Ludicrous

ridiculous

Magnanimous

generous

Meticulous

careful

Misanthropic

cynical

Momentous

significant

Mollify (v.)

to soothe

Muzzle (v.)

to prevent

Multifaceted

having many sides

Mutilate (v.)

to maim

Myriad

a lot