Academic Word List word formation challenge game

Choose one of the words below that you think you can make many true statements. Make those statements one by one, stopping whenever you are not sure if you can do so accurately anymore. You will get one point for each correct statement, but will lose all the points from that round if you say anything wrong and play will pass to the next person or team. If something you say is debatable, you won’t get a point for that thing but you can continue with other statements. Things you can say (in any order):

–       Meanings

–       Parts of speech (of the form here or other forms)

–       Grammar (e.g. countable or uncountable)

–       Differences in British and American English

–       Irregular forms (e.g. irregular plurals such as Latin plurals)

Regular plurals and -ing and –ed forms of verbs will not be accepted, though adjectives with those forms are fine. Prefixes are also very welcome. The forms must make sense as well as be grammatical possible, particularly with adverbs.  

abandon                           academy                          access                accommodate

accompany                      accumulate                      accurate                           achieve

acknowledge                   acquire               adapt                                adequate

adjust                                administrate                     adult                                  advocate

affect                                 aggregate                        aid                                     allocate

alter                                   ambiguous                       amend                analogy

analyse               anticipate                         append               appreciate

approach                          appropriate                      approximate                    arbitrary

assemble                         assess                assign                               assist

assume                            assure                attach                                attain

attitude               attribute                            author                               authority

automate                          available                           aware                               benefit

bias                                  brief                                  bulk                                   capable

capacity                            category                           cease                               challenge

chart                                  cite                                    civil                                    clarify

coherent                           coincide                           collapse                            commence

comment                          commit               communicate                   compatible

compensate                     compile                            complement                     complex

compute                           conceive                           concept                            conclude

concurrent                        confer                               confine                confirm

conflict                conform                            consent               consequent

consist                constitute                          constrain                          construct

consult                consume                          contact                context

contradict                         contrary                            contrast                            contribute

controversy                      convene                            converse                          convert

convince                           coordinate                        correspond                      criteria

cycle                                 data                                  debate                deduce

define                               definite               demonstrate                    deny

derive                               detect                               deviate               differentiate

diminish                            discrete                            discriminate                     displace

dispose                            distinct                distort                               distribute

diverse               document                         domestic                          dominate

economy                          edit                                    eliminate                          emerge

emphasis                         empirical                          enforce               enhance

enormous                         environment                     equate                equivalent

erode                                error                                  establish                           estimate

ethic                                  ethnic                                evaluate                            eventual

evident                evolve                               exceed               exclude

expand               expert                               exploit                               expose

external               facilitate                            federal                final

finance                finite                                  flexible                focus

formula               found                                 function               fund

globe                                hierarchy                          hypothesis                        identify

ideology                           illustrate                            immigrate                         implicate

impose               incidence                         incline                               incorporate

indicate                            individual                          inevitable                          infer

inhibit                                initiate                               injure                                 innovate

insight                               institute               instruct                integrate

intense                interact               internal                interpret

invest                                investigate                       involve                isolate

item                                   justify                                 legal                                  legislate

liberal                                licence                link                                    locate

logic                                  maintain                           manipulate                       margin

mature                mental                 method               migrate

minor                                modify                               motive                               neutral

normal                obtain                               occupy                occur

orient                                parallel                participate                        passive

period                               persist                              phenomenon                    philosophy

precede                            precise               predict                predominant

presume                           principle                           priority                              proceed

process                            professional                     prohibit               promote

proportion                        prospect                           rational               react

recover               refine                                regulate                            relevant

reluctance                        rely                                    remove               reside

resolve                resource                           respond                            restore

restrain               restrict                              retain                                reveal

reverse               revise                                revolution                          rigid

schedule                           scheme                            secure                select

sequence                         sex                                    significant                         similar

simulate                            specify                sphere                stable

statistic               structure                           submit                               subordinate

subsidy               substitute                          successor                        sufficient

sum                                   supplement                      survive                suspend

sustain                symbol                terminate                          text

theme                               theory                                thesis                                tradition

transfer               transit                                uniform               unify

utilise                                valid                                  vary                                   visible

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Suggested answers

Please note that this is not the whole Academic Word List, as words with no other parts of speech or only really obvious ones have been removed.

 

Headwords	Other words in the family.
abandon	abandonment
academy	academia, academic, academically
access	accessibility, accessible, inaccessible
accommodate	accommodating, accommodation
accompany	accompaniment, unaccompanied
accumulate	accumulation
accurate	accuracy, accurately, inaccuracy, inaccurate
achieve	achievable, achievement, achievements
acknowledge	acknowledged, acknowledgement, acknowledgements
acquire	acquisition, acquisitions
adapt	adaptability, adaptable, adaptation, adaptive
adequate	adequacy, adequately, inadequacies, inadequacy, inadequate, inadequately
adjust	adjustment, adjustments, readjustment
administrate	administration, administrative, administrator
adult	adulthood
advocate	advocacy
affect	affected, affective, affectively, unaffected
aggregate	aggregation
aid	unaided
allocate	allocation
alter	alteration, alternate, unalterable, unaltered
ambiguous	ambiguity, unambiguous, unambiguously
amend	amendment
analogy	analogous
analyse	analysis, analyst, analytic, analytical, analytically
anticipate	anticipated, anticipating, anticipation, unanticipated
append	appendix, appendices, appendixes
appreciate	appreciable, appreciably, appreciated, appreciation, unappreciated
approach	approachable, unapproachable
appropriate	appropriacy, appropriately, appropriateness, inappropriacy, inappropriate, inappropriately
approximate	approximately, approximation
arbitrary	arbitrariness, arbitrarily
assemble	assembly
assess	assessment, reassess, reassessment, unassessed
assign	assignment, reassign
assist	assistance, assistant, unassisted
assume	assuming, assumption, assumptions
assure	assurance, assurances, assured, assuredly
attach	attached, attachment, unattached
attain	attainable, attainment, attainments, unattainable
attitude	attitudinal
attribute	attributable, attributed, attributes, attribution
author	authorship
authority	authoritative, authorities
automate	automatic, automated, automates, automating, automatically, automation
available	availability, unavailable
aware	awareness, unaware
benefit				beneficial, beneficiary
bias				biased, unbiased
brief				brevity, briefly
bulk				bulky
capable			capabilities, capability, incapable
capacity			incapacitate, incapacitated
category			categorisation, categorise
cease			ceaseless
challenge			challenger, challenging
chart			uncharted
cite			citation, cited, citing
civil			civility
clarify			clarification, clarified, clarity
coherent			coherence, coherently, incoherent, incoherently
coincide			coincidence, coincidental
collapse			collapsible
commence			commencement, recommence
comment			commentary, commentator
commit			commitment, committed
communicate			communicable, communication, communicative, uncommunicative
compatible			compatibility, incompatibility, incompatible
compensate			compensation, compensatory
compile			compilation, compiled
complement			complementary, complements
complex			complexity
compute			computation, computational, computer, computerised, computing
conceive			conceivable, conceivably, conceived, inconceivable, inconceivably
concept			conception, conceptual, conceptualisation, conceptualise, conceptually
conclude			conclusion, conclusive, conclusively, inconclusive, inconclusively
concurrent			concurrently
confer			conference
confine			unconfined
confirm			confirmation
conflict			conflicted
conform			conformability, conformance, conformation, conformist, conformity, nonconformist
consent			consensus
consequent			consequence, consequently
consist			consistency, consistent, consistently, consisting, inconsistencies, inconsistency, inconsistent
constitute			constituency, constituent, constitution, constitutional, constitutionally, unconstitutional
constrain			constraining, constraint, constraints, unconstrained
construct			construction, constructive, reconstruct, reconstructed, reconstruction
consult			consultancy, consultant, consultation, consultative, consulting
consume			consumer, consuming, consumption
contact			contactable
context			contextual, contextualise
contradict			contradicted, contradicting, contradiction, contradictions, contradictory
contrary			contrarian
contrast			contrastive
contribute			contributing, contribution, contributions, contributor
controversy			controversial, controversially, uncontroversial
convene			convention, convening, conventional, conventionally, conventions, unconventional
converse			conversely
convert			conversion, converted, convertible
convince			convinced, convincing, convincingly, unconvinced
coordinate			coordinated, coordination, coordinator
correspond			correspondence, correspondingly
criteria			criterion
cycle			cyclic, cyclical
data		datum
debate		debatable
deduce		deduction
define		definable, defined, defining, definition, redefine, undefined
definite		definitely, definitive, indefinite, indefinitely
demonstrate		demonstrable, demonstrably, demonstration, demonstrative, demonstratively, demonstrator
deny		deniable, denial, undeniable
derive		derivation, derivative
detect		detectable, detection, detective, detector
deviate		deviation
differentiate		differentiation
diminish		diminished, diminution, undiminished
discrete		discretely, discretion, discretionary, indiscrete, indiscretion
discriminate		discriminating, discrimination
displace		displacement
dispose		disposable, disposal
distinct		distinction, distinctive, distinctively, distinctly, indistinct, indistinctly
distort		distorted, distorting, distortion
distribute		distribution, distributional, distributive, distributor, redistribute, redistribution
diverse		diversely, diversification, diversified, diversify, diversity
document		documentation, documented
domestic		domestically, domesticate, domesticated
dominate		dominance, dominant, dominating, domination
economy		economic, economical, economics, economist, uneconomical
edit		edited, edition, editor, editorial
eliminate		elimination
emerge		emergence, emergent, emerging
emphasis		emphasise, emphatic, emphatically
empirical		empirically, empiricism
enforce		enforced, enforcement
enhance		enhancement
enormous		enormity
environment		environmental, environmentalist
equate		equated, equates, equating, equation, equations
equivalent		equivalence
erode		eroded, erosion
error		erroneous, erroneously
establish		disestablish, disestablishment, established, establishment
estimate		estimated, estimation, overestimate, underestimate
ethic		ethical, ethically, ethics, unethical
ethnic		ethnicity
evaluate		evaluation, evaluative, re-evaluate, re-evaluation
eventual		eventuality, eventually
evident		evidence, evidential, evidently
evolve		evolution, evolving, evolutionary, evolutionist
exceed		excessive
exclude		excluded, exclusion, exclusionary, exclusionist, exclusive, exclusively
expand		expansion, expansionism, expansive
expert		expertise, expertly
exploit		exploitation, exploited, exploits, exploitative
expose		exposed, exposure
external		externalisation, externalise
facilitate		facilitation, facilitator, facility
federal		federation
final		finalise, finality, finally, finals
finance		financial, financially, financier, financing
finite		infinite, infinitely
flexible		flexibility, inflexible, inflexibility
focus		focused, refocus
formula		formulae, formulate, formulation, reformulate, reformulation
found		founder, unfounded
function		functional, functionally, functioning, functionality
fund		funder, funding, funds
globe		global, globally, globalisation
hierarchy		hierarchical
hypothesis		hypotheses, hypothesise, hypothetical, hypothetically
identify		identifiable, identification, identifying, identity, unidentifiable
ideology		ideological, ideologically
illustrate		illustrated, illustration, illustrative
immigrate		immigrant, immigration
implicate		implicated, implication
impose		imposing, imposition
incidence		incident, incidentally
incline		inclination, inclined
incorporate		incorporated, incorporation
indicate		indication, indicative, indicator
individual		individuality, individualism, individualist, individualistic, individually
inevitable		inevitability, inevitably
infer		inference
inhibit		inhibited, inhibiting, inhibition
initiate		initiating, initiation, initiative, initiator
injure		injury, uninjured, injurious
innovate		innovation, innovative, innovator
insight		insightful
institute		institution, institutional, institutionalise, institutionalised, institutionally
instruct		instruction, instructive, instructor
integrate		integrated, integration
intense		intensification, intensified, intensify, intensity, intensive, intensively
interact		interaction, interactive, interactively
internal		internalise, internalised, internally
interpret		interpretation, misinterpret, misinterpretation, reinterpret, reinterpretation
invest		investment, investor, reinvest
investigate		investigation, investigative, investigator
involve		involved, involvement, involving
isolate		isolated, isolating, isolation, isolationism
item		itemisation, itemise, itemised
justify		justifiable, justifiably, justification, justified, unjustified
legal		illegal, illegality, illegally, legality, legally
legislate		legislation, legislative, legislator, legislature
liberal		liberalise, liberalism, liberalisation, liberalisation, liberate, liberated, liberation, liberating, liberator, liberally
licence		licensed, unlicensed
link		linkage, linked
locate		location, relocate, relocation
logic		illogical, illogically, logical, logically, logician
maintain		maintenance
manipulate		manipulated, manipulation, manipulative
margin		marginal, marginally
mature		immature, immaturity, maturation, maturity
mental		mentality, mentally
method		methodical, methodological, methodology
migrate		migrant, migration, migratory
minor		minority, minors
modify		modification, modified, unmodified
motive		motivate, motivated, motivating, motivation, unmotivated
neutral		neutralisation, neutralise, neutrality
normal		abnormal, abnormally, normalisation, normalise, normalised, normality
obtain		obtainable, unobtainable
occupy		occupancy, occupant, occupation, occupational, occupied, occupier
occur		occurrence, reoccur, reoccurrence
orient		orientate, orientated, orientation, oriented, reorient, reorientation
parallel		unparalleled
participate		participant, participation, participatory
passive		passively, passivity
period		periodic, periodical, periodically
persist		persistence, persistent, persistently, persisting
phenomenon		phenomena, phenomenal
philosophy		philosopher, philosophical, philosophically, philosophise, philosophising
precede		preceded, precedence, precedent, preceding, unprecedented
precise		imprecise, precisely, precision
predict		predictability, predictable, predictably, prediction, unpredictable
predominant		predominance, predominantly, predominate, predominating
presume		presumably, presumed, presumption, presumptuous
principle		principled, unprincipled
priority		prioritisation, prioritise,
proceed		procedural, procedure, proceedings, proceeds
process		processed, processes, processing
professional		professionally, professionalism
prohibit		prohibited, prohibition, prohibitive
promote		promoter, promotion
proportion		disproportionate, proportional, proportionally, proportionate, proportionately
prospect		prospective
rational		irrational, rationalisation, rationalise, rationalism, rationality, rationally
react		reaction, reactionary, reactive, reactivate, reactivation, reactor
recover		recoverable, recovery
refine		refined, refinement
regulate		deregulated, deregulation, regulation, regulator, regulatory, unregulated
relevant		irrelevance, irrelevant, relevance
reluctance		reluctant, reluctantly
rely		reliability, reliable, reliably, reliance, reliant, unreliable
remove		removable, removal
reside		residence, resident, residential
resolve		resolution, resolved, unresolved
resource		resourceful, resourcing, unresourceful, under-resourced
respond		respondent, response, responsive, responsiveness, unresponsive
restore		restoration, restored, restorative
restrain		restrained, restraining, restraint, unrestrained
restrict		restricted, restricting, restriction, restrictive, unrestricted, unrestrictive
retain		retainer, retention, retentive
reveal		revealing, revelation
reverse		reversal, reversible, irreversible
revise		revised, revision
revolution		revolutionary, revolutionaries, revolutionise, revolutionising
rigid		rigidity, rigidly
schedule		reschedule, scheduled, scheduling, unscheduled
scheme		schematic, schematically, scheming
secure		insecure, insecurities, insecurity, securely, securities, security
select		selected, selection, selective, selectively
sequence		sequential, sequentially
sex		sexism, sexual, sexuality
significant		insignificant, insignificantly, significance, significantly, signify
similar		dissimilar, similarity, similarly
simulate		simulated, simulation
specify		specifiable, specified, unspecified, specific, specification, specificity
sphere		spherical
stable		instability, stabilisation, stabilise, stabilising, stability, unstable
statistic		statistician, statistical, statistically, statistics
structure		restructure, restructuring, structural, structurally, structured, unstructured
submit		submission, submissive
subordinate		subordination, insubordination
subsidy		subsidiary, subsidise, subsidised
substitute		substitution
successor		succession, successive, successively
sufficient		sufficiency, insufficient, insufficiently, sufficiently
sum		summation
supplement		supplementary
survive		survival, survivor
suspend		suspended, suspension
sustain		sustainable, sustainability, sustained, sustenance, unsustainable
symbol		symbolic, symbolically, symbolise, symbolism
terminate		terminal, termination
text		textual
theme		thematic, thematically
theory		theoretical, theoretically, theorist
thesis		theses
tradition		traditional, traditionalist, traditionally
transfer		transferable, transference
transit		transition, transitional, transitory
uniform		uniformity, uniformly
unify		unification, unified, unifying
utilise		utilisation, utiliser, utility, utilities
valid		invalidate, invalidity, validate, validation, validity, validly
vary		invariable, variability, variable, variably, variance, variant, variation, varied
visible		visibility, visibly, invisible, invisibility
visual		visualise, visualisation, visually

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