《英语学术词汇表》(The Academic Word List, AWL)是一个由Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 的一些应用语言学家统计出来的词汇表，它包含了学术英语(English for Academic Purpose)中最常用的570个词目(headwords)。

《英语学术词汇表》分10个sublists (小类)，除了第10小类包含30个词目外，其他小类均含有60个词目。Sublist 1（第1类）包含的词汇最常用，sublist 2（第2类）中的词汇使用频率稍低，其他的sublists 依次类推。

下面的内容是从原版中摘录的一小段：

Useful academic vocabulary is contained in the Academic Word List, which is divided into 10 sublists in order of frequency, ie Sublist 1 has the most frequent academic words.

You can try to learn these words from the lists but to learn to use them correctly you need to study them in context….

Sublist 5 of the Academic Word List

academic

adjustment 

alter 

amendment

aware

capacity 

challenge

clause

compounds

conflict

consultation

contact

decline

discretion

draft

enable

energy

enforcement 

entities

equivalent

evolution 

expansion

exposure

external 

facilitate

fundamental

generated 

generation 

image

liberal

licence

logic

marginal

medical

mental

modified

monitoring 

network

notion

objective 

orientation

perspective

precise

prime

psychology 

pursue

ratio

rejected

revenue

stability

styles

substitution 

sustainable

symbolic

target

transition 

trend

version

welfare

whereas