Learning English vocabulary, especially abstract and academic words, has always been a big challenge for English learners because the majority of ESL learners simply memorize words out of context. Therefore, English learners cannot score high on standardized English tests, such as IELTS, TOEFL, GRE, SAT, etc. with relatively long passages and contextualized words.
Vocabulary learning should be integrated with listening comprehension to become a more natural process. For this reason, our students can select any word, phrase, passage or the entire article in order to listen to the selected text. That is to say, LELB Society is genuinely talking to and interacting with our students.
As mentioned earlier, it’s a wrong approach to learning vocabulary out of context. At LELB Society, we provide our students with this exceptional opportunity to build up and expand academic vocabulary in real or authentic context extracted from novels, books, websites, plays, scripts of movies, poems, and the like. What’s more, our students can master advanced vocabulary in organized themes and subjects by clicking on the tags or keywords located at the bottom of each lesson. To browse our most frequently-used tags and keywords, click here and study all lessons.
Abstract words should become tangible in your mind for a longer retention. One perfect way to make abstract words tangible is to make appropriate associations between them and corresponding visual concepts, and using images and illustrations can help you achieve this goal. At LELB Society, we have illustrated thousands of advanced English vocabulary found in best-selling vocabulary books, such as 504 Absolutely Essential Words, 1100 Words You Need to Know and 601 Words You Need to Know to Pass Your Exam.
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Majority 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 5 Majority 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 5 /məˈdʒɒr.ə.ti/ (noun) the main or larger part of something, larger part or number, mass, bulk, more than half, most, lion’s share, predominance, preponderance, greater part, best part – difference in number of votes in election, margin, advantage – adulthood, manhood, maturity …
Campus 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 5 Campus 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 5 /ˈkæm.pəs/ (noun) university or college site, educational institution, grounds, precincts, property, estate, the buildings of a university or college Be that as it may, the reality is, nothing can really compare to the full experience of on-campus college life and when …
Burden 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 5 Burden 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 5 /ˈbɜː.dən/ (noun & verb) a heavy load to carry, weight, cargo, pack – an unpleasant task to deal with, obligation, liability, difficulty, strain, responsibility, charge, duty, encumbrance, problem, affliction, tax, onus, inconvenience In the year since those phone calls, he has …
Rural 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 5 Rural 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 5 /ˈrʊə.rəl/ (adj) outside city, of the countryside, rustic, typical of the country or country living, bucolic, pastoral, georgic, country About 46 million Americans live in the nation’s rural counties, 175 million in its suburbs and small metros and about 98 million …
Vanish 504 Absolutely Esseential Words Lesson 4 Vanish 504 Absolutely Esseential Words Lesson 4 /ˈvæn.ɪʃ/ (verb) to disappear or fade away suddenly, recede from view, become invisible, be lost, evaporate, die out, go missing, become extinct, cease to exist Coronavirus likely to vanish faster than Spanish flu: WHO chief The WHO on Friday said that …
Predict 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 4 Predict 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 4 /prɪˈdɪkt/ (verb) to say what will happen in the future, foresee, foretell, forecast, prophesy, tell in advance, envision, anticipate, envisage, calculate, see coming Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the conditions of the atmosphere for a …
Enormous 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 4 Enormous 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 4 /ɪˈnɔː.məs/ (adj) very big and large, huge, prodigious, colossal, voluminous, gigantic, immense, vast, mammoth, giant, massive, elephantine, mountainous, gargantuan, titanic Executive pay around the world varies. Several of the world’s largest corporations, the ones which tend to reward top executives more, …
Circulate 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 4 Circulate 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 4 /ˈsɜː.kjʊ.leɪt/ (verb) to move around something or make something move around someone or something else, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, distribute, promulgate, disperse, spread, make known, make public, publicize, mingle – socialize, pass around Is it too hot in your house? Some fresh …
Descend 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 4 Descend 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 4 /dɪˈsend/ (verb) to go down, come down, fall, sink, move downward, plunge, nosedive – become more evident or established – be inherited by, originate from, derive It takes about 15 minutes to inflate and launch a balloon and also 15 minutes …
Theory 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 4 Theory 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 4 /ˈθɪə.ri/ (noun) an assumption or abstract thought that has not been scientifically proven, contemplation, speculated idea, conjecture, hypothesis, model, notion, belief, presumption, thesis, postulation, proposition, supposition, premise, guess – rules and techniques, philosophy, scheme In 1905, Albert Einstein determined that the …