AWL Academic Word List Test

There are 570 headwords on this list (proposed by Averil Coxhead at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), which is said to contain the most frequently occurring vocabulary in academic contexts. Starting with the letter 'A', test your familiarity with ten words on the AWL.

Choose the word or expression that differs in meaning from the given word:

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

Link: What are homonyms?

• 1. abandon:
  
  leave behind
  desert
  continue
  give up
  
  
• 2. adaptation:
  
  support
  adjustment
  habituation
  change
  
  
• 3. anticipate:
  
  startle
  foresee
  expect
  predict
  
  
• 4. achieve:
  
  bring off
  accomplish
  abandon
  reach
  
  
• 5. alter:
  
  modify
  maintain
  vary
  convert
  
  
• 6. approximate:
  
  analogous
  estimate
  approach
  remote
  
  
• 7. assess:
  
  disregard
  charge
  determine
  check out
  
  
• 8. authority:
  
  expert
  power
  force
  obedience
  
  
• 9. available:
  
  up for grabs
  unobtainable
  on hand
  accessible
  
  
• 10. attribute:
  
  quality
  deficit
  feature
  assign