Academic Word List Collocations

These academic word list collocations can be used to improve your usage of words from the AWL.

Try doing these AWL quizzes first to make sure that you know the actual words from the word list.

When you are sure you know them, you can use these exercises to help you build up some useful collocations.

I cant stress how important it is when you learn a new word to learn the words it commonly collocates with.

This is how to develop excellent writing and speaking skills in English - not by learning words on their own with no idea of what to place it with.

There may be many different words that collocate together, but on this page I have tried to pick some common ones. You should check online though to find other collocations.

Academic Word List Collocations - Quiz One (AWL sublist 1)

These are taken from the first 10 words of sublist 1. Learning them in chunks of 10 will give you a good method to organise your learning.

These are the words:

analyse
approach
area
assess
assume
authority
available
benefit
concept
consist

The Quiz

1. There are many choose one appropriate health fitness benefits of exercising regularly.

2. We must choose one fully wholly exhaustively assess the situation before making a decision.

3. I don’t like living in choose one built-up density full areas. I prefer small villages in the countryside.

4. I think we can choose one exactly accurately safely assume he didn’t work hard on his essay as it was very poor.

5. The scientists made an choose one in-depth intensive wide analysis of the causes of the disease.

6. I think you are taking the choose one faulty incorrect wrong approach towards the problem. There are better ways to solve it.

7. The surgeon coming to give the seminar is the choose one front leading winning authority on neurological problems.

8. Recreational drugs are choose one fully completely widely available in the city’s nightclubs.

9. Unfortunately, eating only fruit and vegetables to cure illness is an choose one alien monster fishy concept to most people. The first thing they will do is take pills and medicine.

10. This page consists choose one fully entirely comprehensively of exercises to practice collocations with the academic word list.

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Click below to see definitions of some of the more difficult academic word list collocations:

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