Improving your score from 5.5 to 7
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Dear candidates: This short but useful pamphlet is intended to boost your vocabulary knowledge for both academic and general training students preparing for IELTS writing task 2. This is, in fact, a list of useful Verbs, Nouns, Adjectives and Adverbs helping students to boost their score from 5.5 to nearly 7 in the IELTS test.
About the terms: Low lexis: are the words that are less formal. High lexis: are the words that are more formal and are recommended for higher scores.
You need to check the meaning of high lexis words to see how they are used in writing.
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Task 2 useful academic words Useful adjectives for task 2 (nearly 165 words)
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Useful adjectives for task 2 (nearly 165 words) Low lexis / meaning Bad Good Harmful
Useful
Busy
Crowded
Empty Hopeful Sad
Happy Satisfied Satisfactory Having controlling ability Can be measured Possible Present Not present Producing unusual ideas Can be seen, clear
Different
Trustable Loyal
High lexis Abominable, deplorable Acceptable, palatable, satisfactory, reasonable Adverse, deleterious, detrimental, inimical, injurious, destructive Effective, fruitful, advantageous, constructive, beneficial Active, engaged, involved,
Low lexis / meaning Relating to money Imaginary
High lexis Financial Fictional, fabulous
Showing that sth exists
Indicative, demonstrative
Related to understanding or explaining
Interpretive, analytical
More important
Congested, replete, crammed, cramped, flooded Blank, bare Life affirming, optimistic, sanguine, Bereft , disconsolate, desolate, despondent
Needed
Major, significant, cardinal, main, focal, dominant Vital, crucial, necessary
Looking the same Changing often
Similar, akin, comparable Variable
Can be reached or done, possible
Blissful, charmed, cheerful, delighted Complacent, content,
Right
Achievable, attainable, feasible, manageable, potential Suitable, apropos, apt
Palatable, acceptable Authoritative, commanding Assessable Susceptible
Certain Limited
Available, accessible, obtainable Unavailable, inaccessible
Done or said in a strong way Having good reason for sth Morally correct
Creative, stimulating, visionary Evident, apparent, conspicuous, distinct, noticeable Alternative, contrasting, discrepancy, disparate, distinctive Reliable Committed, dedicated
Difficult to understand
Related, connected with Having good organization
Of or at the beginning
Abstruse, complex, byzantine Conclusive Restricted, ambit Relevant Coordinated, wellorganized Emphatic, assertive Justifiable Righteous, principled, upstanding, virtuous Initial, introductory, primary
Happening a lot or all the time
Constant, frequent, endless
Enough Essential or important part, basic
Adequate, fair Fundamental, integral indispensable, requisite
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Useful adjectives for task 2 Low lexis / meaning Exact Can do Completely new and effective Great, extremely large
High lexis Precise, accurate, correct, infallible Capable
Low lexis / meaning Around the world
Revolutionary, avantgarde, emerging, innovative Enormous, colossal, immense, inordinate
Very near, next to
In different order
Powerful
High lexis Global, universal, world wide Graded, arranged, categorized, classified Adjacent, bordering, coterminous, neighboring Prodigious, invulnerable, omnipotent, robust
Useful prepositions for task 2 Low lexis / meaning About
After Under
High lexis Regarding, with regard to, in terms of, concerning, on the subject of, connected with Subsequent Below,
Low lexis / meaning Before
High lexis prior to, preceding
By Above
Through, via more
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Task 2 useful academic words Useful verbs for task 2 (nearly 250 words)
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Useful verbs for task 2 (nearly 250 words) Low Lexis Keep
store
show
feel unhappy
make rule
refresh
become disappointed, disappoint restore, rejuvenate
High Lexis indicate, illustrate, demonstrate, reveal legislate
happen
occur
make happen faster
accelerate
(to cause)move forward
proceed, propel, inspire
send out Begin go to school
emit commence attend school
need ask for do research
require demand, request conduct, carry out, undertake
receive education Force Want
acquire an education oblige, compel, impose intend to, plan to
say yes answer make
accept, approve, admit respond, reply structure, form, construct
put up Try keep eye on sb/sth
install make an effort supervise, monitor
change do sth successfully get
alter, vary achieve, fulfill, attain gain, acquire, become, obtain
pay attention to be keen on, interested in
do put into categories
administer categorize, classify
Love spend time on
attend to be enthusiastic about, show enthusiasm regarding show affection towards devote, contribute to
help to end sth, finish
assist conclude, terminate, adjourn
Use
consume, utilize, apply in
calculate the value, judge
evaluate
Work understand, tell from
function recognize, discern, identify, interpret,absorb comment on afford compensate argue, believe, maintain, claim recommend, pose approach assume benefit
look for choose
seek select, adopt
to live believe buy to move to
reside perceive purchase transfer
to control sth combine, match help communicate
regulate coordinate, aggregate Coordinate. Provide aid interact
limit, control write capitalize on sth make sure
constrain correspond emphasize, highlight ensure
Explain
possess to have access to sth consist of sth constitute, involve, comprise justify
fill
occupy, obsess
test open sth, set up
assess establish, found
depend on no have in sth
rely on exclude, remove
give opinion about pay for sth make up for say suggest move toward think take advantage, be useful to have sth to be able to use sth make up of sth make up
High Lexis
Low Lexis
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Low Lexis help with money provide money for sth have sth in sth find the place print write your name in classes, etc make able make larger
High Lexis
Low Lexis
High Lexis
finance, provide financial support fund, sponsor contain locate publish register, enroll
make better
improve, promote
keep in mind say before it happens change to fit worsen talk to sb
Retain predict, forecast adjust, modify compound, exacerbate consult
enable expand
evolve expose
make sth (electricity,etc)
generate, manufacture
change gradually leave open to, no to protect make easy
become familiar with say no replace give example say before
orientate reject, refute substitute cite, illustrate mention, aforementioned
follow keep on thank sb connect, join grow
pursue continue, sustain acknowledge attach enhance, increase, rise
not give attention to slow down sth to get rid of, escape delete, cross out to add sth to sth separate pile up make clear discover make less live stop continue to exist dig do business use sth a lot say formally, say to connect in mind Solve
ignore inhibit, prevent dispose of, eliminate insert isolate accumulate clarify detect reduce, minimize dwell cease persist quarry commerce overuse announce, express associate tackle, handle, approach the problem
to tell sb how to do sth Go forward introduce new ideas forbid to stay alive to go with sb value obey to show publicly to give room make certain act against, not obey face use wrongly buy and sell to put in order to encourage to grow copy To gather sth
Instruct advance Innovate Prohibit Survive Accompany Appreciate conform to Exhibit Accommodate Assure Violate encounter, confront misuse, abuse Trade to prioritize Stimulate imitate, replicate Compile, accumulate, collect
facilitate
Now turn to next page for a list of Nouns.
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Task 2 useful academic words Useful nouns for task 2 (nearly 250 words)
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Useful Nouns for task 2 (nearly 250 words) High Lexis verb store
High Lexis Noun storage
become disappointed, disappoint restore, rejuvenate
Disappointment
High Lexis verb indicate, illustrate, demonstrate, reveal legislate
High Lexis Noun indication, illustration, demonstration Legislation
restoration, rejuvenation
occur
Occurrence
accelerate emit commence attend school
Acceleration Emission Commencement Attendance
proceedings, inspiration Requirement demand, request ------
acquire an education
Acquisition of an education
proceed, propel, inspire require demand, request conduct, carry out, undertake accept, approve, admit
oblige, compel, impose
respond, reply
intend to, plan to
obligation, compulsion, imposition intention, plan
install make an effort
Installation an effort
alter, vary achieve, fulfill, attain
supervise, monitor
supervision, monitoring
attend to be enthusiastic about, show enthusiasm regarding show affection towards devote, contribute to
Attention Enthusiasm
gain, acquire, become, obtain administer categorize, classify
consume, utilize, apply in function recognize, discern, identify, interpret, absorb comment on afford compensate argue, believe, maintain, claim recommend, pose approach assume benefit
consumption, utilization, application function Recognition , discernment, identification, interpretation ,absorption Comment Affordability Compensation argument, belief, claim
possess to have access to sth consist of sth
affection devotion, contribution to
structure, form, construct
acceptance, approval, admission response, reply structure, formation, construction Alteration, variation achievement, fulfillment, attainment gain, acquisition Administration category, classification
assist conclude, terminate, adjourn evaluate
Assistance conclusion, termination, adjournment Evaluation
seek select, adopt
---selection, adoption
reside perceive purchase transfer
Residence Perception Purchase Transfer
Recommendation , Approach Assumption Benefit
regulate coordinate, aggregate Coordinate. Provide aid interact
Regulation coordination, aggregation Coordination, aid Interaction
Possession access to sth ----
constrain correspond emphasize, highlight
Constraint Correspondence emphasis
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High Lexis verb constitute, involve, comprise justify assess establish, found finance, provide financial support fund, sponsor Contain Locate Publish register, enroll
High Lexis Noun constitution, involvement,
High Lexis verb ensure
High Lexis Noun Insurance
Justification Assessment establishment, foundation finance, financial support
occupy, obsess rely on exclude, remove improve, promote
occupation, obsession Reliance exclusion, removal improvement, promotion
fund, sponsorship ---Location Publication registration, enrollment
Retain predict, forecast adjust, modify compound, exacerbate consult
Retention prediction, forecast adjustment, modification compound, exacerbation Consultation
Enable expand
Ability Expansion
evolve expose
Evolution Exposition
generate, manufacture
generation, manufacture
facilitate
Facilitation
orientate reject, refute substitute cite, illustrate mention, aforementioned ignore inhibit, prevent dispose of, eliminate insert isolate accumulate clarify detect reduce, minimize dwell cease persist quarry commerce overuse announce, express associate tackle, handle, approach the problem
Orientation rejection, refutation Substitution citation, illustration Mention
pursue continue, sustain acknowledge attach enhance, increase, rise
Pursuit ----Acknowledgement Attachment enhancement, increase, rise
Ignorance inhibition, prevention Disposition Elimination Insertion Isolation Accumulation Clarification Detection reduction Dwelling Cease Persistence Quarry Commerce Overuse announcement, expression Association Approach the problem
instruct advance innovate prohibit survive accompany appreciate conform to exhibit accommodate assure violate encounter, confront misuse, abuse trade to prioritize stimulate imitate, replicate Compile, accumulate, collect
Instruction Advancement Innovation Prohibition Survival Company Appreciation Conformity Exhibition Accommodation ---Violation encounter, confrontation misuse, abuse Trade Priority Stimulation imitation, replication Compilation, accumulation, collection
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About the author
Mr. Reza Atashzamzam is an MA graduate of English language teaching. He has been working as a lecturer at university, teacher trainer and teacher in Shiraz and Tehran, Iran since 2004. He has been internationally trained by McMillan University on teaching IELTS. He has spent time on holding workshops for IELTS candidates both in person and online. His teaching career includes:
Working as lecturer at Shiraz University, the International branch (Qeshm University) Teaching at Dibagaran Complex, Shiraz, Iran Teaching at Aptech College, Shiraz, Iran Teaching at Navid English Institute, Shiraz, Iran Teaching at Shokuoh English Institute, Tehran, Iran Teaching at Tarbiat Moallem University, Tehran, Iran Teaching at Shiraz Azad University, Shiraz, Iran Teaching at Isiran Institute, Shiraz, Iran
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