Academic English Vocabulary: 400 Words for Writing

전체 400장 중 30장을 발췌해 보여 주고 있습니다.

Academic vocabulary fails in production, not comprehension. Every reader knows roughly what comprise, imply and significant mean, and every writer still gets them wrong: is comprised of instead of comprises, imply where infer belongs, significant used loosely in a paper that also reports statistical significance. The gap is never the definition. It is the word family, the preposition, and the neighbouring word that so often trips people up. This deck covers 400 words of academic English. Every card gives the meaning and part of speech, then one line of the thing that actually goes wrong — the plural of criterion, the preposition after contribute, the difference between effective and efficient — followed by a sentence in the register you are aiming for. Cards are tagged by function: research and method, argument and evidence, cause and change, quantity and comparison, structure and process, policy and society, linking and signalling, and academic writing itself. Import it and the deck joins your spaced-repetition schedule, and what stays in rotation is the set you can recognise but not yet write.

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Does importing this deck use AI credits?

No. Importing uses the saved deck as published; it does not run AI generation or use AI credits. The complete deck can therefore be imported on the free plan.

What happens if I import the deck twice?

Nothing is duplicated. Cards you already have are skipped and only newly added cards come across. Including re-imports after deleting, each official deck can be imported three times per account.

Can I use it on the web app and the phone app?

Yes. The deck is added to your account, so the same cards and the same progress are available in the web app, the iOS app and the Android app.

Can I edit the cards after importing?

Yes. Imported cards are yours: you can edit both sides, delete cards you do not need, change tags, and move cards to another deck.

What is in the deck?

73 on research and method, 71 on argument and evidence, 54 on quantity and comparison, 45 on policy and society, 43 on cause and change, 42 on structure and process, 37 on linking and signalling, 22 on academic writing itself and 13 on problems and limitations, 400 in total. One word per card, so nothing appears twice.

Why does each card include a usage note?

Because the definition is rarely what goes wrong. Criteria is a plural, contribute takes to, the whole comprises the parts and is never comprised of them, and a writer who implies is not a reader who infers. Those are the details that mark writing as non-academic, and they are what the note on each card carries.

Is this useful for IELTS and TOEFL?

Yes, particularly for the writing and speaking tasks, where examiners look for range and accuracy rather than rare words. The linking and signalling group maps directly onto the discourse markers those rubrics reward, and the hedging words — suggest, indicate, tentative, arguably — are how you make a claim you can defend.

British or American spelling?

British spellings appear on the front, with the American variant named in the note wherever the two differ. Both are accepted in academic writing as long as you are consistent, so pick one and let the notes remind you which forms belong together.