Most commonly used academic words
These words, a subset of the six-hundred-word Academic Word List, are the sixty most commonly used academic words.
| analyze | define | indicate | proceed |
| approach | derive | individual | process |
| area | distribute | interpret | require |
| assess | economy | involve | research |
| assume | environment | issue | respond |
| authority | establish | labor | role |
| available | estimate | legal | section |
| benefit | evident | legislate | sector |
| concept | export | major | significant |
| consist | factor | method | similar |
| constitute | finance | occur | source |
| context | formula | percent | specific |
| contract | function | period | structure |
| create | identify | policy | theory |
| data | income | principle | vary |
Source: Averil Coxhead, “Sublist 1 of the Academic World List,” School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, 2012. The entire Academic Word List is available at www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources/academicwordlist.