The academic wordlist has been developed to serve as a resource to students to assist them to better understand words used within the information they gather to complete their academic assignments and as a result enhance their academic career. The bilingual wordlist contain 2427 terms with their part of speech indicated as well as definition and usage example provided in both Afrikaans and English. A multilingual version of this wordlist is available here: https://repo.sadilar.org/handle/20.500.12185/666