I am a Tulane University graduate from New Orleans. I am a civil engineer and currently working on rebuilding our beautiful city. I just found out about your web page and was actually surprised when I saw only one list available. I wanted to share the lists I had studied with you and your members. I really like your service and enjoy practicing new vocabulary.

Well, about those lists:
The University Word List (UWL) is a list of vocabulary items common in academic texts. It is composed of 808 words. This list is designed to be a list of specialized vocabulary for students who know about 2,000 generally common words and plan to study in an English-language college or university. Think of it as the most common 800 words in academic texts excluding the 2,000 most common words (i.e. the-a-good-bad...etc).

Academic word list (AWL) is just another version that was published in the Summer, 2000 issue of the TESOL Quarterly (v. 34, no. 2). It was developed by Averil Coxhead, of Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand. The AWL is a replacement for the UWL. The AWL
is shorter than the UWL (570 words).
Contributed by Mustafa Lok, Civil Engineer (Tulane 2004)
 

We are listing both list on this page.
University Word List (UWL) - 808 words
Academic Word List (AWL) - 570 words

Thank you, Mustafa Lok!! 

University Word LIst (UWL-808 words)  

alternative, analyze, approach, arbitrary, assess, assign, assume, compensate, complex, comply, component, concept, conclude, consist, constant, construct, consult, contact, context, criterion, data,define, definite, denote, derive, devise, dimension, distinct, element, environment, equate, equivalent, establish, evaluate, evident, formulate, guarantee, hypothesis, identify, ignore, illustrate, impact, implicit, imply, indicate, initial, interpret, involve, magnitude, method, minimum, modify, negative, obvious, potential, presume, prime, proceed, publish,, pursue, random, range, region, require, restrict, reverse, role, similar, specify, status, subsequent, suffice, sum, summary, technique, tense, ultimate, usage, valid, vary, vertical, accelerate, achieve, adjacent, affect, approximate, assert, authorize, automatic, aware, chapter, complicate, comprehend, conceive, concentrate, consequent, contrast, contribute, convert, create, crucial, decade, demonstrate, design, devote, distort, emphasize, empirical, ensure, entity, equilibrium, expand, expose, external, feasible, fluctuate, focus, function, generate, individual, infer, inhibit, innovation, intense, intuitive, isolate, magnetic, major, manipulate, mathematics, mature, notion, obtain, occur, passive, period, perspective, pertinent, phase, phenomena, portion, precede, precise, principle, react, respective, section, segment, select, sequence, series, shift, signify, simultaneous, sophisticated, species, stable, statistic, structure, technology, theory, trace, tradition, transmit, undergo, verbal, verify, abandon, accomplish, adapt, adequate, adjust, appreciate, appropriate, area, attitude, chemical, circumstance, classic, commune, conduct, conflict, consume, convene, coordinate, correspond, credible, critic, dedicate, deficient, deviate, discrete, disperse, dispose, drama, dynamic, economy, estimate, exclude, exert, explicit, exploit, factor, feature, final, geography, image, intellect, intelligent, issue, labor, maintain, manifest, maximum, motive, network, norm, notate, occupy, orientate, physical, plot, pole, positive, preposition, prestige, previous, proprietor, rational, relevance, rely, reveal, rotate, satellite, scheme, seek, source, superficial, task, transition, underlie, visual, acquire, administer, aesthetic, allege, allocate, alter, analogy, appraise, assemble, assure, atmosphere, atom, attribute, avail, axis, bomb, capable, cease, constitute, contaminate, contradict, culture, dedicate, denominator, dense, diagram, discourse, distribute, diverse, dominate, elaborate, eliminate, embody, emotion, energy, eventual, forgo, fragment, goal, heredity, impress, incident, incompatible, induce, integrate, internal, intervene, investigate, judicial, justify, litigate, logic, military, mobile, perpendicular, persist, philosophy, predict, project, proportion, psychology, reject, release, research, reservoir, revolt, speculate, sphere, spontaneous, stipulate, subside, subsidize, superimpose, symbol, tentative, text, theorem, upsurge, absorb, abstract, accurate, advocate, aid, biology, category, client, code, compound, confront, contract, contrary, crisis, deny, dictate, diffuse, dispute, duration, edit, electron, enlighten, err, execute, expel, fraud, grant, graph, gravity, homogeneous, implement, impose, incorporate, insist, institute, instruct, intersect, interval, job, kindred, label, legitimate, objective, overlap, parenthesis, perpetrate, preliminary, radius, respond, restore, retain, retard, rudimentary, secure, stimulate, stress, style, subtle, superior, supplement, suppress, symptom, synthetic, tiny, trait, transfer, transform, trivial, vast, version, abnormal, academic, accompany, adjective, adult, agitate, appeal, arouse, aspect, assist, attain, awe, benefit, civic, clarify, collide, comment, commit, compute, conform, conjunction, console, contemplate, contend, contingent, controversy, converse, cooperate, cycle, decline, degenerate, doctrine, extract, fertile, found, hemisphere, hierarchy, identical, incline, income, instinct, interact, interlock, interlude, legal, locate, medium, metabolism, microscope, minor, nerve, niche, oblige, participate, planet, propagate, propensity, prosper, protest, radical, reign, reinforce, revise, sanction, scalar, strata, subjective, sustain, tangent, terminology, tone, topic, uniform, urban, virtual, volume, voluntary, adolescent, affiliate, affluence, alcohol, aristocrat, astronomy, cell, collapse, colloquial, commodity, competence, concentric, confer, configuration, congress, conserve, continent, corporate, creditor, crystal, cumbersome, defer, degrade, democracy, depress, dissolve, divine, domestic, ethics, finance, fraction, friction, fuse, geometry, horror, incentive, incessant, intermediate, invade, inverse, invoke, migrate, morphology, muscle, navy, neutral, nutrient, obsolete, odor, parliament, peasant, plead, policy, pragmatic, precipitate, prevail, prudence, rectangle, reform, refute, repudiate, revive, rhythm, saint, schedule, score, sibling, sketch, sociology, spectrum, stereotype, terror, texture, thermal, tissue, transact, x-ray, adhere, aggregate, aggression, align, allude, ally, bore, bureaucracy, cater, circulate, coincide, consent, correlate, currency, deprive, detect, detriment, discern, dissipate, drug, evolve, fallacy, finite, fraternal, frustrate, imperial, index, invest, launch, legislate, lens, liable, linguistic, locomotion, magic, metaphor, monarch, nuclear, oscillate, oxygen, partisan, pendulum, pervade, postulate, premise, proclaim, provoke, rebel, reluctance, reproduce, rigid, secrete, sex, solar, spatial, subordinate, supreme, territory, treaty, trend, utilize, utter, acid, ambiguity, amorphous, asset, averse, carbon, complement, condense, confine, construe, displace, diverge, drastic, efficient, enumerate, evaporate, evoke, exhaust, faction, federal, frontier, fund, illuminate, indigenous, innate, integer, intrinsic, liberate, margin, material, matrix, molecule, momentum, odd, orbit, residue, reverberate, rural, stationary, subdivide, suspend, unduly, velocity, vibrate, violate, vocabulary, access, angular, anomaly, anonymous, anthropology, append, appendix, ascribe, aspiration, assent, assimilate, auspices, clinic, coefficient, cogent, comprise, compulsion, converge, deflect, deliberate, dispense, elevate, elicit, eloquent, emancipate, embrace, emerge, enhance, enrich, episode, equidistant, exponent, facilitate, fluent, fossil, inconsistent, inflation, ingenious, inherent, interrelate, interview, intimacy, maternal, myth, null, option, outcome, perpetual, priority, procure, prohibit, province, purport, quote, recur, remove, render, repress, resident, rigor, saturate, skeleton, surplus, tangible, tolerate, triangle, vague, accumulate, annual, apparatus, arithmetic, attach, battery, breed, bubble, bulk, calendar, cancel, capture, career, catalogue, challenge, channel, circuit, column, communicate, compel, cylinder, debate, decimal, defect, diameter, digest, drain, enable, equipment, expert, export, fare, fate, fluid, fuel, fulfill, fundamental, genuine, germ, harbor, hero, hostile, huge, import, impulse, inferior, injure, inspect, instance, irrigate, item, journal, laboratory, layer, lecture, leisure, luxury, mental, moist, novel, pest, pollution, port, process, ratio, resource, revolve, route, shrink, site, starve, survey, switch, tape, team, telescope, temporary, theft, tire, tractor, traffic, transparent, transport, tropical, undertake, vein, vital, volt, withdraw  

The shorter version, the academic word list (AWL-570 words) 

abandon,  abstract,  academy,  access,  accommodate,  accompany,  accumulate,  accurate,  achieve,  acknowledge,  acquire,  adapt,  adequate,  adjacent,  adjust,  administrate,  adult,  advocate,  affect,  aggregate,  aid,  albeit,  allocate,  alter,  alternative,  ambiguous,  amend,  analogy,  analyze,  annual,  anticipate,  apparent,  append,  appreciate,  approach,  appropriate,  approximate,  arbitrary,  area,  aspect,  assemble,  assess,  assign,  assist,  assume,  assure,  attach,  attain,  attitude,  attribute,  author,  authority,  automate,  available,  aware,  behalf,  benefit,  bias,  bond,  brief,  bulk,  capable,  capacity,  category,  cease,  challenge,  channel,  chapter,  chart,  chemical,  circumstance,  cite,  civil,  clarify,  classic,  clause,  code,  coherent,  coincide,  collapse,  colleague,  commence,  comment,  commission,  commit,  commodity,  communicate,  community,  compatible,  compensate,  compile,  complement,  complex,  component,  compound,  comprehensive,  comprise,  compute,  conceive,  concentrate,  concept,  conclude,  concurrent,  conduct,  confer,  confine,  confirm,  conflict,  conform,  consent,  consequent,  considerable,  consist,  constant,  constitute,  constrain,  construct,  consult,  consume,  contact,  contemporary,  context,  contract,  contradict,  contrary,  contrast,  contribute,  controversy,  convene,  converse,  convert,  convince,  cooperate,  coordinate,  core,  corporate,  correspond,  couple,  create,  credit,  criteria,  crucial,  culture,  currency,  cycle,  data,  debate,  decade,  decline,  deduce,  define,  definite,  demonstrate,  denote,  deny,  depress,  derive,  design,  despite,  detect,  deviate,  device,  devote,  differentiate,  dimension,  diminish,  discrete,  discriminate,  displace,  display,  dispose,  distinct,  distort,  distribute,  diverse,  document,  domain,  domestic,  dominate,  draft,  drama,  duration,  dynamic,  economy,  edit,  element,  eliminate,  emerge,  emphasis,  empirical,  enable,  encounter,  energy,  enforce,  enhance,  enormous,  ensure,  entity,  environment,  equate,  equip,  equivalent,  erode,  error,  establish,  estate,  estimate,  ethic,  ethnic,  evaluate,  eventual,  evident,  evolve,  exceed,  exclude,  exhibit,  expand,  expert,  explicit,  exploit,  export,  expose,  external,  extract,  facilitate,  factor,  feature,  federal,  fee,  file,  final,  finance,  finite,  flexible,  fluctuate,  focus,  format,  formula,  forthcoming,  found,  foundation,  framework,  function,  fund,  fundamental,  furthermore,  gender,  generate,  generation,  globe,  goal,  grade,  grant,  guarantee,  guideline,  hence,  hierarchy,  highlight,  hypothesis,  identical,  identify,  ideology,  ignorance,  illustrate,  image,  immigrate,  impact,  implement,  implicate,  implicit,  imply,  impose,  incentive,  incidence,  incline,  income,  incorporate,  index,  indicate,  individual,  induce,  inevitable,  infer,  infrastructure,  inherent,  inhibit,  initial,  initiate,  injure,  innovate,  input,  insert,  insight,  inspect,  instance,  institute,  instruct,  integral,  integrate,  integrity,  intelligence,  intense,  interact,  intermediate,  internal,  interpret,  interval,  intervene,  intrinsic,  invest,  investigate,  invoke,  involve,  isolate,  issue,  item,  job,  journal,  justify,  label,  labor,  layer,  lecture,  legal,  legislate,  levy,  liberal,  license,  likewise,  link,  locate,  logic,  maintain,  major,  manipulate,  manual,  margin,  mature,  maximize,  mechanism,  media,  mediate,  medical,  medium,  mental,  method,  migrate,  military,  minimal,  minimize,  minimum,  ministry,  minor,  mode,  modify,  monitor,  motive,  mutual,  negate,  network,  neutral,  nevertheless,  nonetheless,  norm,  normal,  notion,  notwithstanding,  nuclear,  objective,  obtain,  obvious,  occupy,  occur,  odd,  offset,  ongoing,  option,  orient,  outcome,  output,  overall,  overlap,  overseas,  panel,  paradigm,  paragraph,  parallel,  parameter,  participate,  partner,  passive,  perceive,  percent,  period,  persist,  perspective,  phase,  phenomenon,  philosophy,  physical,  plus,  policy,  portion,  pose,  positive,  potential,  practitioner,  precede,  precise,  predict,  predominant,  preliminary,  presume,  previous,  primary,  prime,  principal,  principle,  prior,  priority,  proceed,  process,  professional,  prohibit,  project,  promote,  proportion,  prospect,  protocol,  psychology,  publication,  publish,  purchase,  pursue,  qualitative,  quote,  radical,  random,  range,  ratio,  rational,  react,  recover,  refine,  regime,  region,  register,  regulate,  reinforce,  reject,  relax,  release,  relevant,  reluctance,  rely,  remove,  require,  research,  reside,  resolve,  resource,  respond,  restore,  restrain,  restrict,  retain,  reveal,  revenue,  reverse,  revise,  revolution,  rigid,  role,  route,  scenario,  schedule,  scheme,  scope,  section,  sector,  secure,  seek,  select,  sequence,  series,  sex,  shift,  significant,  similar,  simulate,  site,  so-called,  sole,  somewhat,  source,  specific,  specify,  sphere,  stable,  statistic,  status,  straightforward,  strategy,  stress,  structure,  style,  submit,  subordinate,  subsequent,  subsidy,  substitute,  successor,  sufficient,  sum,  summary,  supplement,  survey,  survive,  suspend,  sustain,  symbol,  tape,  target,  task,  team,  technical,  technique,  technology,  temporary,  tense,  terminate,  text,  theme,  theory,  thereby,  thesis,  topic,  trace,  tradition,  transfer,  transform,  transit,  transmit,  transport,  trend,  trigger,  ultimate,  undergo,  underlie,  undertake,  uniform,  unify,  unique,  utilize,  valid,  vary,  vehicle,  version,  via,  violate,  virtual,  visible,  vision,  visual,  volume,  voluntary,  welfare,  whereas,  whereby,  widespread,