While revising Words Count, I compared textbooks in different disciplines and looked at numerous lists of vocabulary words related to different subjects. My goal was to develop a list of words that I thought qualified as essential for academic work.

In the end, I used quite a few of the words I had collected. But there were many left over, and I couldn't bear the thought of the list going to waste. Therefore, I'll be posting the words and their definitions here, along with examples and brief comprehension checks.

assimilation

coherence

compliance

consolidate

contingency

domestic

empirical

facet

retroactive