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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Glib 1100 Words You Need Week 38 Day 1 Glib 1100 Words You Need Week 38 Day 1 /glɪb/ (adj) speaking fluently and smoothly but not sincerely, fluent but insincere, slick, smooth-talking, fast-talking, facile, shallow, superficial, flippant, persuasive, convincing As a columnist (which is fancy for “journalist in jammies”), I ought to personify the conventional …
Upset the Apple Cart 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 4 Upset the Apple Cart 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 4 to cause trouble particularly by disturbing someone’s plans, raise Cain, overturn a plan, disturb an intention, spoil a plan, mess up, tamper, meddle I recently had a conversation with a senior …
Germane 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 4 Germane 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 4 /dʒɜːˈmeɪn/ US /dʒɝː-/ (adj) relevant and to the point, related, pertinent, felicitous, relevant to a subject under consideration, applicable, apposite, apropos, appropriate, apt, fitting, suitable, useful, connected Cognitive Load Theory is one of the most powerful research …
Phobia 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 4 Phobia 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 4 /ˈfəʊ.bi.ə/ US /ˈfoʊ.bjə/ (noun) an extreme fear of something in particular which does not have a reasonable foundation, horror, terror, fright, dread, paranoia, anxiety Fear of dogs, known clinically as cynophobia, is a type of stimulus-specific phobia. …
Erudite 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 4 Erudite 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 4 /ˈer.ʊ.daɪt/ (adj) showing or having a lot of specialist knowledge or expertise, very knowledgeable through study, showing great knowledge or learning, learned, scholarly, educated, academic, intellectual, intelligent, bookish, highbrow, cerebral, brainy, well-educated, well-read Erudite Private School is …
A Square Peg in a Round Hole 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 3 A Square Peg in a Round Hole 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 3 a person in an unsuitable situation where he/she cannot use their abilities, an able man in the wrong job, like a fish out of water, …
Nascent 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 3 Nascent 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 3 /ˈnæs.ənt/ /ˈneɪ.sənt/ (adj) recently starting to grow or develop, fledgling, developing, just coming into existence, just beginning, budding, embryonic, incipient, evolving, emergent, dawning, burgeoning, promising, blossoming The nascent state is defined as a psychological process of destructuration-reorganization …
Therapy 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 3 /ˈθer.ə.pi/ (noun) Definition a special treatment to help a patient feel or grow better after an illness, remedy, cure, psychotherapy, rehabilitation, help, healing Example The main forms of cancer treatment are cancer surgery (surgical treatment), radiotherapy, chemotherapy and hormone therapy. Nowadays various immunological therapies and so-called …
Off the Beaten Track 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 2 Off the Beaten Track 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 2 off the beaten path, far from main roads or paths, in a remote place where few people go, out of the ordinary, in an isolated place, not usual, secluded, isolated, out-of-the-way, …
Superfluous 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 2 Superfluous 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 2 /suːˈpɜː.flu.əs/ US /-ˈpɝː-/ (adj) more than enough, overflowing, extra, additional, surplus, redundant, unnecessary, excess, leftover, spare, unneeded, excessive, unessential “This action eliminates superfluous reporting requirements, requirements that do not improve government transparency, but rather distract our intelligence …