AWL Vocabulary Quizzes

What these quizzes contain

These quizzes are simple drag and drop matching exercises. There are two types. The first type requires you to match words with their definitions (more about this below). Once all the definitions have been correctly matched an example sentence is given to show how the word is used in context. There may also be comments about the word or its use. The second type requires you to complete an example sentence with an appropriate word (gap fill).

The items in each quiz are presented in random order, so if you retake the quiz you won't see these in the same order you first saw them.

All the words are from the Academic Word List. This list is divided into ten sublists. You can download this from the University of Wellington website. There are also other lists and resources on this site including tests and word association tests (collocations).

You can boost your knowledge of the use of these words by playing the Collocation Game and cunsulting the Collocation Dictionary.

Obviously most words have more than one meaning. This means that the definitions in the quizzes are either very general ones covering most or all the meanings, or that one particular meaning has been chosen.

All the examples have been chosen from authentic texts. They have not been invented for the purposes of these quizzes. You can see a list the sources once each quiz has been completed. Upon completion you also have a record of the number of attempts you made to complete the quiz along with random number identifier and a timestamp.

The quizzes contain all the words from all the sublists 1 - 10.