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AWL highlighter & gapfill Find academic words in a text
Use this tool to highlight words from the AWL (Academic Word List). Enter the text in the box below then click 'submit'. If you want to use the gapfill maker (below), you will need to input and highlight the text first. You may also like to try the AWL tag cloud, which is a companion to this page. For a more detailed look, including number of words and percentages, try the Vocabulary Profiler.
For more on AWL highlighters, check out the YouTube video ».
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Sorted word list (by sublist) will appear below.
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Create a gapfill for the above text. Choose from these different types:
a simple gap fill, with blanks only (you will need the words above to complete it)
a head word gapfill, in which each of the academic words will be replaced by the head word (or by another word form if the replaced word is itself a headword)
a word family gapfill, in which each of the academic words will be replaced by another word from the same word family
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