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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Maintain the Status Quo 1100 Words You Need Week 38 Day 4 Maintain the Status Quo 1100 Words You Need Week 38 Day 4 to keep things as they are, preserve, sustain, keep things the way they presently are Status quo is a Latin phrase meaning the existing state of affairs, particularly with regard to …
Retort 1100 Words You Need Week 38 Day 4 Retort 1100 Words You Need Week 38 Day 4 /rɪˈtɔːt/ US /-ˈtɔːrt/ (noun & verb) to answer someone directly, quickly and angrily, reply, respond, rejoin, bite back, say in response, counter, retaliate, return, snap back, answer back, response, riposte, rejoinder I was running late. My wife …
Castles in the Air 1100 Words You Need Week 38 Day 3 Castles in the Air 1100 Words You Need Week 38 Day 3 plans with very faint chance of happening, visionary unattainable schemes, daydream, impracticable project, castle in Spain, fantasy, fancy, nonsense, imagination, woolgathering, wishful thinking “Hop Hop Hop … Up”, this is how …
Audacity 1100 Words You Need Week 38 Day 3 /ɔːˈdæs.ə.ti/ US /ɑːˈdæs.ə.ti/ (noun) the state of being brave and fearless, fearlessness, intrepidity, bravery, courage, heroism, pluck, recklessness, spirit, valor, guts, effrontery, nerve, gall, defiance, temerity, boldness, daring, courageousness, impudence, disrespect, rudeness, discourtesy It takes courage to stand up to our enemies, but it takes audacity …
Capitulate 1100 Words You Need Week 38 Day 3 Capitulate 1100 Words You Need Week 38 Day 3 /kəˈpɪt.jʊ.leɪt/ (verb) to accept military defeat, surrender, cease to resist an opponent, give in, yield, concede defeat, raise the white flag, accept to do something against your own will, accept something unwillingly, acquiesce, compromise, submit, give up …
Stigmatize 1100 Words You Need Week 38 Day 3 Stigmatize 1100 Words You Need Week 38 Day 3 /ˈstɪg.mə.taɪz/ (verb) to treat someone unfairly especially by disapproving of them, regard as worthy of disgrace, mark with stigmata, label as socially undesirable, condemn, denounce, disparage, vilify, defame, mark out, pillory There is mounting evidence to suggest …
Get up on the Wrong Side of the Bed 1100 Words You Need Week 38 Day 2 Get up on the Wrong Side of the Bed 1100 Words You Need Week 38 Day 2 to feel agitated, annoyed and in a bad mood all day long, get out of bed on the wrong side, be …
Procrastinate 1100 Words You Need Week 38 Day 2 Procrastinate 1100 Words You Need Week 38 Day 2 /prəʊˈkræs.tɪ.neɪt/ US /proʊ-/ (verb) to postpone and keep delaying something that must be done due to being boring and unpleasant, put off, balk at, hesitate, waver, falter, defer, stall, drag one’s feet, play a waiting game, adjourn, …
Fatal 1100 Words You Need Week 38 Day 2 Fatal 1100 Words You Need Week 38 Day 2 /ˈfeɪ.təl/ US /-ţəl/ (adj) too dangerous and deadly, lethal, mortal, leading to failure or disaster, disastrous, killing, terminal, mortal, incurable, untreatable, inoperable, malignant, destructive, ruinous For more than a decade, heart disease and cancer, two fatal diseases, …
By Hook or by Crook 1100 Words You Need Week 38 Day 1 By Hook or by Crook 1100 Words You Need Week 38 Day 1 by any method that is thinkable or possible, by any possible means, no matter how, by any means, somehow, in one way or another, no matter what, no matter …