AWL Academic Word List: D

Here are ten more words on the AWL from the 'D' list. Again, you must choose the one word that differs in meaning from the given word. Now put on your thinking cap (= think hard), and use your noodle (= use your brain).

This lesson was created by Evelyn Ono Vineberg, EC San Diego

Link: Academic Word List - Letters 'B'and 'C'

• 1. draft:
  
  cold air
  plan
  choose people
  divide
  
  
• 2. decline:
  
  mount
  say no
  diminish
  sag
  
  
• 3. deny:
  
  renounce
  concede
  contradict
  refute
  
  
• 4. dominant:
  
  superior
  prevailing
  controlling
  modest
  
  
• 5. duration:
  
  length
  extent
  density
  continuance
  
  
• 6. defect:
  
  abandon
  fault
  desert
  defend
  
  
• 7. domain:
  
  discipline
  realm
  dominion
  document
  
  
• 8. demonstrate:
  
  display
  protest
  show
  demolish
  
  
• 9. design:
  
  disassemble
  plot
  plan
  arrange
  
  
• 10. domestic:
  
  in the home
  within a country
  not wild
  not national