Academic Vocabulary: Is it useful for you?

Many of you have studued the AWL. It is such a long list of words. Will you ever be able to remember them all? Maybe. Will you ever have to use them all? Probably not.

It would be better for you to study words that will be useful for you. This website has a great list of exercises that are categorised by university subject. Choose the subject that is closest to what you will study and start learning.

Good Luck!

Build your Vocabulary with AWL Quizzes

This website has some great quizzes on AWL1. Have a go and check your answers.

AWL Help

This website has a list of word families for the words in the AWL. Try to use this as a way of checking your answers. Avoid using this as a study sheet.

Here is a crossword to test your knowledge of the AWL. There is another one here too.

The next website is more challenging. It has a series of word searches based on the AWLs. Be careful! The words can go forwards or backwards (e.g. sdrawkcab).