The phrase "associate words" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing words that are related or connected in meaning or context.
Example: "In this exercise, you will need to identify and list the associate words that relate to the main theme of the text."
Alternatives: "related words" or "connected terms".
One of the most widely deployed, known as the implicit-association test, measures how quickly people associate words describing facial characteristics with different types of faces that display those characteristics.
Similar to an implicit association test for adults -- which asks participants to quickly associate words such as "self" and "pleasant" or "unpleasant" -- the preschoolers were asked to associate objects.
Toddlers just learning to speak associate words with shape, not size or texture.
Each participant was given 40 cue words and six attached associate words, such as ATTIC-junk and ATTIC-dust.
A system has to learn to associate words like X above with the correct meaning instead of overfitting the spurious interpretations.
But unlike many machine-learning algorithms, which are provided with labeled data sets to help them associate words with what they see or hear, this system was given a pile of raw data and left to fend for itself.
A pioneer PET-scan study in 1988 by Steven Petersen, Marcus Raichle, and their colleagues showed the different areas of the brain that are activated by reading words, listening to words, uttering words, and associating words.
After free associating words, someone said "strawberry" to convey enjoyment and freshness.
Blinkx figured out its relevance by associating words like dog, pooch and unbelievable.
Complex networks can help in resolving context through preserving sequence and by associating words in a sentence, sentences in a paragraph and even paragraphs in an article.
With advances in syntax and semantics came the realization that knowing a language was not merely a matter of associating words with concepts.
