IELTS Writing Vocabulary | 25 BAND 9 WORDS

hi there it's Asiya and today I've prepared for you 25 complex formal english words that you can use in common ielts writing situations of course knowing a word is never enough you need to know the precise meaning of each word and how to combine it with other words in sentences correctly that's what really shows your english skills okay i'm gonna show you all that and without further ado let's get started the first word is to accelerate it means to happen faster or earlier or to make something happen faster or earlier for example population growth accelerated only after 1750. here is another one environmental factors can accelerate the development of certain cancers this verb is often used with a number of adverbs such as to accelerate dramatically greatly and rapidly the next word is to acquire it means to get or buy something students who have acquired a good knowledge of english have better prospects of finding high-paying jobs the next word is adolescent it means a young person who is developing into an adult adolescents are neither children nor adults and they have specific developmental needs there are several similar words adolescents youth and young people what's the difference world health organization defines adolescents as people between 10 and 19 years old youth are people between 15 and 20 and young people are between 10 and 24 the next word is albeit it's a conjunction it's a formal version of although but it's only used to add information in the sentence i'm going to show you a couple of examples and that's why it's so important to see how the word is really used the nation is adapting albeit slowly to the new global economy as you can see we put a comma before obedient and after slowly so these are the two words we add here is another one throughout this year retail sales have shown a rise or beat a declining one or levels of a year ago let me explain this sentence retail sales have shown a rise they are rising this year albeit a declining one it means last year they grew too but at a faster pace perhaps last year the growth rate was 10 and this year it's seven percent so it still arise oh be it a declining one the next word is to attain it means to succeed in getting something after a lot of effort top universities only consider applicants who have attained a high level of academic achievement and it's used with a number of nouns such as to attain a university degree perhaps a master's degree to attain a certain level mastery proficiency standard to attribute it means to say or believe that something is a result of something else and you can say to attribute something to something use two scientists attribute this change to better living standards particularly in regard to diet and it's often used with the following adverbs to attribute directly solely or largely you can also use it in the passive voice something is attributed to something this success can be generally attributed to two main factors and you can see it's commonly generally or usually attributed to a wheat it's a formal for wait for something scientists are still awaiting the results of tests we say wait for something but await something without any proposition await the results breakthrough it's an important development and you can say to represent or achieve a breakthrough for somebody the new deal represents a major breakthrough for the company you can also see a significant breakthrough in computer science so in this case the proposition is in the next word is to commands it's a formal to begin this program will give the children a great preparation before commencing school the following september commodity that's something that is useful or has a useful quality water is a precious commodity that is often taken for granted in the west time is a valuable commodity consecutive following one after another in a continuous series interest rates rose for the fifth consecutive month to constitute this verb has two meanings the first one is to be considered to be something this action constitutes a violation of international law we often use it in the following situations to constitute a danger crime breach nuisance offense threat but it has another meaning to constitute means to be the parts that together form something such as people under the age of 40 constitute the majority of the labor force or the 50 states constitute the united states of america to correlate if two things correlate they are closely connected they affect or depend on each other and you can say to correlate with something a high-fat diet correlates with a greater risk of heart disease or the average speed of the vehicles correlates closely with the severity of the accident caused you can also use a noun a correlation a correlation between a and b there is a direct correlation between exposure to sun and skin cancer i'm giving you all these words thinking that you have some time before your exam but if you really need to take it soon then perhaps you don't have time to learn new words and i would recommend concentrating on the first two criteria task achievement task response and coherence and cohesion that's where results can be achieved much more quickly and if that's what you need i'm gonna link my online courses in the description okay let's continue to deprive it means to prevent somebody from having something important to deprive somebody of something some parents deprive themselves of many pleasures so that their children can have the best of everything to deteriorate means to become worse the situation is likely to deteriorate further you can use an adjective deteriorating conditions or a noun a further deterioration of the situation is likely you might have noticed that many words on this list are verbs that's because using formal verbs makes a huge difference to your writing just like using more complex adjectives if you replace the most common and simple adjectives such as bad small important with more complex words your writing will immediately be perceived as more complex as well and i have a list of synonyms to 20 most common adjectives used in iot's writing i will link it in the description to device it means to invent a plan system or object the scheme is devised for young people in the 15 20 age band to elicit it it means to make something clearer by explaining it more fully the reasons for the change in weather conditions have been elucidated by several scientists to exaggerate means to make something seem larger than it really is the media exaggerate the risks and benefits of research findings and you can exaggerate something bad and something good either way to exacerbate means to make something bad even worse and we usually use it to talk about a situation or a problem rising energy costs which are a result of a growing scarcity as well as inflation are exacerbating the situation to exert this verb has two meanings to use authority power influence in order to make something happen some managers exert considerable pressure on their staff to work extra hours without being paid that's terrible you can also use it to talk about someone who is making a big physical or mental effort say to exert oneself in order to be successful one would have to exert himself or in order to achieve that i had to exert myself expenditure that's the act of spending money or the amount spent a reduction in public government military expenditure government expenditure on primary education should be increased to facilitate it means to make something possible or easier to facilitate learning each class is no larger than 30 students quite a lot if you ask me you use it with the adverbs greatly and further to facilitate greatly to facilitate further immense it means extremely large or great because the word huge is informal but immense is formal there is still an immense amount of work to be done or the benefits are immense imminent it's used to talk about something bad and it means that it's likely to happen very soon an imminent disaster or danger this system is in imminent danger of collapse or a man in imminent danger of losing his job to incur it means to experience something particularly something unpleasant as a result of your actions to incur debts fines bills companies incur additional costs in dealing with non-paying customers it means that the company has to spend even more money on chasing those customers who haven't paid high costs in cut by visitors do not deter them from coming to this island a misconception that's a belief or an idea that is not based on correct information or that is not understood by people a misconception about something and we often say a popular or a common misconception a popular misconception is that immigration is bad for the economy okay today's words can replace very common words in ielts writing to make your vocabulary more complex and more formal just like the synonyms to the most common adjectives that you can download right now all the words from today's lesson are in the description thank you for watching me today good luck with your preparation and your exam bye

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Published: Tue Aug 18 2020