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List of Formal Words for Academic Writing! In academic writing, it is important to use formal language. This means avoiding words and phrases that are too informal or personal. Formal language is more precise and less likely to be misunderstood. It also shows that you are taking your work seriously.

List of Formal Words for Academic Writing

Sr.	Formal	Informal
1	Naked	Nude
2	Ascend	Climb
3	Children	Kids
4	Perhaps	Maybe
5	Contaminated	Dirty/ polluted
6	Suspend/adjourn	Break off
7	Enquire	Ask
8	Accumulate	Rack up
9	Present	Here
10	contact	get in touch with
11	substitute, inform	fill in
12	Correct	Right
13	Discern	Make out
14	Aid/ Assist	Help
15	Increase	Go up
16	In conclusion,	To sum up
17	much, many	lots of/ a lot of
18	Regard	Look at
19	Commence	Start/ Begin
20	Enter	Come in
21	Depict	Describe
22	By means of	By
23	Introduce	Bring in
24	Anticipate	Expect
25	Improved	Better
26	Terminate	End
27	Distribute	Give out
28	Select	Choose
29	Vacant	Empty
30	intelligent	smart

31	Pursue	Go after
32	Beneficial	Good for
33	Vision	Sight
34	Examine	Go through
35	Demonstrate	Show
36	Garment	Clothes
37	Considerable	Really big
38	represent	stand for
39	Energetic	Lively
40	Eject	Throw out
41	Await	Wait for
42	Donate	Give
43	Repair	Mend
44	Elude	Get away
45	Intelligent	Bright/smart
46	Positive	Good
47	Demise	Death
48	Express	Say
49	Obtain	Get
50	Discuss/consider	Talk about
51	Request	Ask for
52	Evade	Avoid
53	Indicate	Point out
54	Allow	Let
55	Transparent	Clear
56	Yours sincerely, Yours faithfully,	Love,
57	Amiable	Friendly
58	Enormous	Big/Large
59	Verify	Check
60	Haste, hasten	Hurry

61	Insert	Put in
62	Conceive	Think of
63	Discard	Throw away
64	Internet	net
65	Damage, harm	Hurt
66	Is capable of	Can
67	Understand	Catch up
68	Timber	Wood
69	Finally	In the end
70	However	But
71	Peril	Danger
72	Depart	Go
73	Erupt	Break out
74	Reach/attain	Come up to
75	Difficult	Tough
76	Learn/Discover	Find out
77	Exceptional	Marvelous
78	Visit	Call on
79	cell phone	cell
80	Choose	Settle for
81	photograph	photo
82	Futile	Hopeless
83	Explode	Blow up
84	Obstinate	Stubborn
85	Dear Sir or Madam	Hi Robert,
86	Attractive	Good looking
87	Ill	Sick
88	Moreover/ Furthermore	Plus/Also
89	Notwithstanding	Anyway,
90	Courageous	Brave
91	Accelerate	Speed up
92	Leave/ depart	Go away
93	Criticise	Hit out at
94	Utilize	Use
95	Consider	Think about
96	Connect	Link up
97	Remove	Take out
98	Reserve	Book
99	At an end	Over
100	Cancel	Call off
101	Pleased	Happy
102	Avid	Eager
103	television	T.V.
104	tolerate	put up
105	Desire	Want/ hope
106	Subsequently	Next/later
107	Escape	Get out
108	Assault	Beat up
109	Immediately	At once
110	Purchase	Buy
111	Combat	Fight
112	Quit	Give up
113	Challenge	Dare
114	Persuade	Talk into
115	Deposit	Put/ set down
116	Handle	Deal with
117	Omit	Leave out
118	Continue	Go on
119	Principally	Mainly
120	Repeatedly	Again & again

121	Consult	Refer to
122	Oppose	Go against
123	Observe	See
124	commence	start
125	Fail/Collapse	Break down
126	In the interim	In the meantime
127	Quarrel	Fall out
128	Facilitate	Ease
129	Acceptable	Okay, ok
130	Numerous	A lot of
131	definitely	really, very
132	Incorrect	Wrong
133	Experiment	Test
134	Nevertheless	Anyways
135	Insane	Mad
136	Inexpensive	Cheap
137	In my opinion,	I think
138	Respect	Look up to
139	Postpone	Put off
140	Endeavour	Try
141	Precede	Go before
142	Fabricate	Make up
143	Sufficient	Enough
144	Invite	Ask out
145	Proceed	Go ahead
146	Diminutive	Small
147	Employer	Boss
148	Immature	Childish
149	Survive	Get by
150	Decrease	Go down
151	cause	bring about
152	Undermine	Block
153	Notion	Idea
154	Father	Dad
155	Initially	At first
156	as soon as possible	ASAP
157	Fortunate	Lucky
158	required	need to
159	Deficiency	Lack
160	Preserve	Keep

161	Display	Set out
162	Tolerate	Put up with
163	Elderly	Old
164	Reside	Live
165	Collect	Pick up
166	establish	set up
167	Youthful	Young
168	Responsible	In charge of
169	Perspiration	Sweat
170	In addition, additionally	Also
171	Occupation	Job
172	Finally	In the end,
173	Humorous, amusing	Funny
174	completely, strongly	totally
175	Resemble	Look like
176	Construct	Build
177	rich	loaded
178	Jesting	Kidding
179	Fearful	Afraid
180		In order to
181	Convoluted	Complex
182	Envisage	Imagine
183	Gratification	Enjoyment
184	Absent	Away
185	Request	Need
186	Reject	Say no
187	Circular	Round
188	A little	A bit
189	Wealthy	Rich
190	Entire/Complete	Whole
191	Investigate	Look into
192	Withdraw (from)	Drop out of
193	Follow	Come after
194	Formal	Informal
195	Famished	Hungry
196	Exit	Go out of
197	Disclose	Explain
198	Therefore	So
199	Indistinct	Dim
200	Liberate	Free