Academic vocabulary
Vocabulary · C2 · 8 printable sheets, each with an answer key.
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- Sheet 1 · 20 minAcademic vocabulary: evaluative verbs in a literature reviewRead an extract from a literature review and decode the precise verbs scholars use to position earlier research.Free
- Sheet 2 · 20 minAcademic vocabulary: abstract nouns for complex ideasLearn six abstract nouns that structure academic argument, use them in context, then write about your own field.Premium
- Sheet 3 · 20 minAcademic vocabulary: hedging and boosting claimsCalibrate the strength of academic claims with precise hedges and boosters, then rebuild cautious sentences.Premium
- Sheet 4 · 20 minAcademic vocabulary: word formation from Latinate stemsForm precise academic words from stems, then check tricky plurals, spellings and near-homophones.Premium
- Sheet 5 · 20 minAcademic vocabulary: commonly confused near-synonymsDistinguish academic words that are often confused, from infer and imply to disinterested and uninterested.Premium
- Sheet 6 · 20 minAcademic vocabulary review: editing a discussion sectionUpgrade an informal draft of a research discussion into precise academic English.Premium
- Sheet 7 · 40 minPhrasal verbs in formal writingPhrasal verbs that are perfectly acceptable in reports and essays, practiced through particle choice and a short report paragraph.Premium
- Sheet 8 · 45 minAcademic vocabulary: historiography, memory and national mythsLearn precise words for how the past is written and remembered, from historiography and primary sources to hagiography, presentism, provenance and restitution, complete a book review, name what each case shows, audit how your own country remembers its past and discuss whether history is really written by the victors.Premium