Academic Vocabulary Building

I. VOCABULARY FOR USE IN COLLEGE ACADEMIC WRITING.

These are words that are frequently used by College students. We recommend that you master the meaning and correct usage by concentrating on one "week" selection at a time.

Week 1.

Words: allot, asset, conservative, covet, economize, frugal, liability, liberal, modify, stagnant.

Week 2.

Words: adaptation, antecedent, colleague, interrogate, intricate, persevere, precedent, reliable, reluctant, significant.

Week 3.

Words: affirm, coincidence, delete, dilemma, diligent, disdain, eradicate, haughty, isolate, pertinent.

Week 4.

Words: candid, frustrate, inquisitive, integrate, naive, segregate, sustain, tacit, terse, verbose.

Week 5.

Words: affluent, alternative, concise, famish, fatigue, formidable, mundane, nostalgic, optimist, pessimist.

Week 6.

Words: amnesty, covert, curtail, fatal, fictitious, hostile, lethal, overt, relevant, sentimental.

Week 7.

Words: aesthetic, affront, antagonize, attitude, characteristic, derogatory, euphemism, hypocrite, inclination, intimidate.

Week 8.

Words: apprehensive, bland, discreet, docile, infamous, initiate, miscellaneous, omission, scrutinize, unanimous.

Week 9.

Words: acquisition, adept, adversary, anecdote, contagious, curt, paradox, subsequent, variable, versatile.

Week 10.

Words: appraise, domestic, exotic, gregarious, irate, mimic, oxymoron, passive, trite, turmoil.

Week 11.

Words: apprise, compromise, conform, crass, emulate, plaintiff, pretense, tact, traditional, wary.

Week 12.

Words: assumption, assurance, awry, expend, extricate, gullible, inevitable, infidelity, remorse, spouse.

Week 13.

Words: anticipate, astute, charisma, cope, duration, idealist, motivate, reality, skeptical, tedious.

Week 14.

Words: citation, cognitive, comprehensive, concept, objective, paraphrase, plagiarism, protagonist, subjective, synopsis.

Week 15.

Words: compatible, discord, dogmatic, dominant, durable, exceedingly, harmony, literally, prestige, status.

Week 16.

Words: adamant, amiable, amoral, avail, demoralize, disarray, emanate, extent, fetid, implore.

Week 17.

Words: absolve, animosity, eccentric, encounter, epitome, extant, malign, meticulous, rancid, saturated.

Week 18.

Words: assess, constituent, deviate, espouse, heresy, lethargy, rampant, survey, vulnerable, wane.

Week 19.

Words: apathy, beguile, caustic, empathy, equanimity, feign, intrigue, livid, opponent, taciturn.

Week 20.

Words: crafty, ecstasy, listless, peruse, temerity, tenet, tentative, tenure, terminate, versatile.

Week 21.

Words: alien, arrogant, bizarre, constraint, expedite, obfuscate, thrifty, replenish, replete, variable.

Week 22.

Words: awe, castigate, laudable, prudent, satiate, sedate, vindicate, vindictive, virile, vital.

Week 23.

Words: corroborate, criterion, datum, exonerate, invincible, jeopardy, repent, temperate, significant, valid.

Week 24.

Words: abridge, amend, apt, attrition, finite, futile, imminent, infinite, parse, phenomenon.

Week 25.

Words: abstract, austere, celibacy, compensate, delve, deprecate, esoteric, improvise, query, redundant.

Week 26.

Words: dire, extrinsic, feasible, intrinsic, libel, morality, ominous, ornate, placid, pragmatic.

Week 27.

Words: affinity, contemporary, convene, deference, didactic, eclectic, hypothesis, poignant, pretentious, ridicule.

Week 28.

Words: empirical, enervate, glib, impediment, intrepid, itinerant, latent, placate, propriety, waive.

Week 29.

Words: accountability, assessment, authentic, deduction, equivalent, exclusive, fiscal, inclusive, intense, measurement.

Week 30.

Words: anthropology, astronomy, astrology, biology, civics, ecology, geology, philosophy, psychology, theology.

Week 31.

Words: ambiguous, belligerent, civil, civilian, civilization, novice, pacify, politics, posthumously, provoke.

Week 32.

Words: defer, diffident, dissent, divulge, dormant, hypertension, lucid, morbidity, mortality, procrastinate.

Week 33.

Words: agnostic, archaic, atheist, bigamy, egocentric, generic, indictment, innovation, misanthrope, monogamy.

Week 34.

Words: anachronism, avocation, demography, innate, magnanimous, megalopolis, recession, tenacious, vocal, vocation.

Week 35.

Words: agile, approbation, centennial, centimeter, decameter, decimate, decimeter, kilometer, megabit, millennium.

Week 36.

Words: ambidextrous, detente, detention, equivocate, expound, harangue, irrevocable, posterity, supine, vociferous.

Week 37.

Words: animate, animosity, depose, dictum, disposition, diverse, dogma, furtive, heterogeneous, homogeneous.

Week 38.

Words: bellicose, egregious, erratic, germane, hyperbole, obdurate, paternalism, periphery, Pollyanna, poltergeist.

Week 39.

Words: euthanasia, flagrant, magnate, perfidious, plausible, psychic psychopath, sedition, sophistry, stipend.

Week 40.

Words: bibliophile, bibliotherapy, collate, condone, euphonious, euphoria, genocide, veracity, verbatim, voracious.

Week 41.

Words: consensus, deviant, diverge, obliterate, obsequious, philanderer, pristine, seduce, solecism, surrogate.

Week 42.

Words: angst, assimilate, aversion, dichotomy, fluent, pivotal, plateau, plenary, pundit, relent.

Week 43.

Words: abyss, adversity, corpulent, discourse, epiphany, expediency, fortify, graphic, introvert, subtle.

Week 44.

Words: bilateral, binary, fluctuate, gratuitous, marathon, morose, mortify, peruse, prerequisite, remnant.

Week 45.

Words: acrid, ameliorate, annuity, automaton, autonomous, biennial, bilingual, biopsy, biopsy, contrite, podiatrist.

Week 46.

Words: accreditation, disparity, endemic, exacerbate, microbe, phobia, purify, putrid, succinct, unison.

Week 47.

Words: alias, alien, alienate, anarchy, autocracy, creditor, demagogue, monopoly, monotonous, speculate.

Week 48.

Words: anonymous, antipathy, centipede, claustrophobia, credential, creed, emancipate, nadir, symbiotic, unilateral.

Week 49.

Words: anthropomorphic, genealogy, misogamist, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, polygamy, potential, pungent, vicissitude.

Week 50.

Words: capitulate, chronological, collateral, convocation, misnomer, perception, pseudonym, synthesis, tactful, trauma.

Week 51.

Words: dialect, extemporaneous, facsimile, faction, infinitesimal, manipulation, putative, travesty, ubiquitous, vestige.

Week 52.

Special Bonus Words for the Twenty-First Century: browser, cineplex, cloning, cybernetics, cyberspace, e-mail, hacker, interactive, Internet, scanner.

II. VOCABULARY DERIVED FROM COMBINING FORMS.

The following section contains word parts that are frequently used by College students. They have a Latin or Greek root meaning. We recommend that you master the root meaning and correct combination for usage by concentrating on one "group" selection at a time.

Section 1.

Group 1: anni, annu, enni; aut, auto; bi; bio; graph; graphy; ped, pod.

Group 2: geo; logy; ology; meter; micro; phon, phono; scope; scrib, scrip; tele.

Group 3: contra; dic, dict; gram; phob, phobo; spect; uni.

Section 2.

Group 4: cent, centi; cred; dec, deca, deci; kilo; milli; port.

Group 5: agog, agogue; ali; arch, archy, cracy, crat; dem, demo; glot; mon, mono; olig; oligo; theo.

Group 6: anthrop; anthropo; gamy; gen; geno; heter, hetero; hom, homo; leg, legis, lex; mis, miso; poly.

Section 3.

Group 7: aqua, aqui; astro; naut; omni; poten; sci, scio; ven, veni, vent; vid, vis.

Group 8: cide; capit; corp, corpor; em, en; frater, fratr; mors, mort; pathy; syl, sym, syn.

Group 9: aud, audi; bene; cura; fac, fect, fic, loc, loco; man, manu; nomin, onym; pseudo.

Section 4.

Group 10: biblio; cata; dia; epi; fin; fer; log, logo; pro.

Group 11: cap, cep; derm, dermo; gnosi, gnosis; gyn, gyno; hypo; ped, pedo; ri, ridi, risi; temp, tempo, tempor; tox, toxo.

Group 12: archae, archaeo; brevi; cede, ceed; chron, chrono; crypt, crypto; cycl, cyclo; duc; sequi; tain, ten, tent.

Section 5.

Group 13: ambi; belli, bello; civ, civis; mega; pac, pax, philo, polis, post; tend, tens, tent; voc, vox.

Group 14: dorm; ego, err; hyper; luc, lum; nov; peri; soph; sist, sta.

Group 15: anima, animus; equi; feder, fid, fide; hypn, hypno; magna, miss, mitt; nasc, nat; pon, pos; pop.

III. VOCABULARY DERIVED FROM CONTEXT CLUES.

The following sections contain words that are frequently used by College students. They have meanings which you can discover within the context of a centence. We recommend that you master the root meaning of each word and its correct usage by concentrating on one "group" selection at a time.

Section 6.

Group 16: candid, frustrate, inquisitive, integrate, naive, segregate, sustain, tacit, verse, verbose.

Group 17: affluent, amnesty, covert, curtail, fatal, fictitious, hostile, lethal, overt, relevant.

Group 18: alternative, concise, famish, fatigue, formidable, mundane, nostalgic, optimist, pessimist, sentimental.

Section 7.

Group 19: affirm, coincidence, delete, dilemma, diligent, disdain, eradicate, haughty, isolate, pertinent.

Group 20: adaptation, antecedent, colleague, intricate, interrogate, persevere, precedent, reliable, reluctant, significant.

Group 21: allot, asset, conservative, covet, economize, frugal, liability, liberal, modify, stagnant.

Section 8.

Group 22: aesthetic, affront, antagonize, attitude, characteristic, derogatory, euphemism, hypocrite, inclination, intimidate.

Group 23: apprehensive, bland, discreet, docile, infamous, initiate, miscellaneous, omission, scrutinize, unanimous.

Group 24: acquisition, adept, adversary, anecdote, contagious, exotic, gregarious, passive, trite, turmoil.

IV. EXTRA VOCABULARY: Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives.

The following sections contain words that are frequently used by College students. Look up these words in a dictionary or Thessaurus. Concentrate on one "Section" at a time.

Section 9.

Nouns: Beginner, Novice, Apprentice, Neophyte, Tyro.

Verbs: Persuade, Induce, Prevail.

Adjectives: Careful, Meticulous, Scrupulous, Punctilious.

Section 10.

Nouns: Gourmet, Gourmand, Glutton, Epicure, Bon Vivant.

Verbs: Refrain, Abstain, Forbear.

Adjectives: Deadly, Mortal, Fatal, Lethal.

Section 11.

Nouns: Readiness, Ease, Facility, Dexterity.

Verbs: Yield, Submit, Capitulate, Relent, Defer.

Adjectives: Talkative, Loquacious, Garrulous, Voluble, Glib.

Section 12.

Nouns: Follower, Adherent, Disciple, Partisan.

Verbs: Incite, Foment, Abet, Instigate.

Adjectives: Diligent, Industrious, Assiduous, Sedulous.

Section 13.

Nouns: Pseudonym, Pen Name, Nom De Plume, Alias, Nom de Guerre, Incognito.

Verbs: Embarrass, Discomfit, Abash, Disconcert, Rattle, Faze.

Adjectives: Immoral, Amoral, Unmoral, Nonmoral.

Section 14.

Nouns: Nerve, Audacity, Temerity, Hardihood, Effrontery.

Verbs: Discuss, Debate, Argue, Dispute.

Adjectives: Vociferous, Clamorous, Blatant, Strident, Boisterous, Obstreperous.

Section 715.

Nouns: Aristocracy, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Theocracy.

Verbs: Adopt, Embrace, Espouse.

Adjectives: Detrimental, Deleterious, Pernicious, Noxious, Baneful.

Section 16.

Nouns: Qualm, Scruple, Compunction, Misgiving.

Verbs: Malign, Defame, Vilify, Slander, Libel.

Adjectives: Belligerent, Bellicose, Pugnacious, Combative, Quarrelsome, Contentious.

Section 17.

Nouns: Pathos, Poignancy, Bathos.

Verbs: Ridicule, Mock, Taunt, Deride.

Adjectives: Banal, Insipid, Vapid, Inane.

Section 18.

Nouns: Atheist, Agnostic, Deist, Freethinker, Infidel.

Verbs: Assent, Consent, Acquiesce, Accede, Subscribes.

Adjectives: Frank, Candid, Blunt, Ingenuous.

Section 19.

Nouns: Difference, Disparity, Discrepancy, Inconsistency.

Verbs: Lie, Fib, Equivocate, Prevaricate.

Adjectives: Artificial, Synthetic, Faux, Ersatz.

Section 20.

Nouns: Ideal, Exemplar, Archetype, Prototype.

Verbs: Escape, Elude, Evade, Shun, Eschew.

Adjectives: Silent, Taciturn, Secretive, Reserved.

Section 21.

Nouns: Cynic, Pessimist, Misanthrope, Misogynist.

Verbs: Relieve, Allay, Alleviate, Assuage, Mitigate.

Adjectives: Favorable, Auspicious, Propitious.

Section 22.

Nouns: Wit, Humor, Irony, Sarcasm, Satire, Repartee.

Verbs: Reveal, Disclose, Divulge, Betray.

Adjectives: Contemporary, Contemporaneous, Coeval, Synchronous, Simultaneous.