Vocabulary

IELTS Vocabulary List

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Your choice of words can raise or lower your IELTS score. You might have good writing skills, but if your essay is full of simple words that even primary school students understand, you are unlikely to get a good band score. This doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to make a conscious effort to [...]

AWL: Abandon

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Abandon (verb) Synonyms: desert, leave, forsake, vacate, walk out on, leave behind, end, cancel, stop, abort, dump, ditch, discard etc. Antonyms: continue, keep etc. Meanings a) leave someone when it is your duty to stay with them and take care of them. The woman abandoned her children [...]

Irrevocable (adjective)

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Meaning   Impossible to revoke, undo or change. Synonyms: binding, irreversible, final, unchangeable, unalterable, permanent, conclusive To revoke is to take back. If something cannot be revoked or taken back, it is called irrevocable. She said that her decision to quit the job was [...]

Substantial

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Synonyms Important, considerable, rich, tangible, significant, sturdy, filling, substantive, material Antonyms Immaterial, ethereal Meanings a) large in amount or degree They have made substantial improvement in providing basic facilities. There are substantial differences between the [...]

Using even so and all the same

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These expressions are usually used in a three-part structure. In the first part, the speaker/writer introduces some arguments. Then he/she contradicts these arguments with some counter arguments. In the third part the speaker/writer dismisses these counter arguments and endorses the original [...]
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