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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Tenable 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 2 /ˈten.ə.bļ/ (adj) Tenable definition (of a position or opinion) able to be defended successfully, defendable, reliable, able to be maintained, maintainable, defensible, justifiable, supportable, sustainable, able to hold water, reasonable, rational, sound, viable, plausible, credible, acceptable Example Tenable theories and research set out to provide organizations …
Felicitous 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 2 Felicitous 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 2 /fəˈlɪs.ɪ.təs/ US /-ţəs/ (adj) appropriate or highly suitable, apt, well-chosen, fitting, germane, relevant, pertinent, pleasant and agreeable, happy and fortunate, lucky, fortuitous, timely, propitious, joyous Chef Sasaki asserts, “I think that sea bream can be called the …
Tighten One’s Belt 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 1 Tighten One’s Belt 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 1 to spend less money than before due to financial problems, cut back, economize, retrench, pull in your horns, get set for bad times or poverty Tighten your belts and prepare for a year …
Volition 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 1 Volition 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 1 /vəˈlɪʃ.ən/ (noun) the power and ability to make your own decisions, willpower, free will, the power of using one’s will, choice, preference, choice, wish, will, decision, desire, option In March 2013 the Ombudsman for Children decided to …
Servile 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 1 Servile 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 1 /ˈsɜː.vaɪl/ US /ˈsɝː.vəl/ (adj) too eager to serve and please other people unreasonably, obsequious, sycophantic, subservient, fawning, ingratiating, groveling, toadyish, slavish, bootlicking, apple polishing, submissive, flattering Despite his impressive qualifications, he adopted a servile attitude around his …
Confront 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 1 Confront 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 1 /kənˈfrʌnt/ (verb) to deal with a difficult situation or person, tackle, meet face to face with hostile intent, come face to face with, accost, encounter, stand up to, challenge, oppose, antagonize, provoke, defy, handle, face up to …
In Seventh Heaven 1100 Words You Need Week 36 Day 4 In Seventh Heaven 1100 Words You Need Week 36 Day 4 extremely happy, in a state of ecstasy, ecstatic, euphoric, elated, thrilled, jubilant, overjoyed, walking on air, rapturous, delirious, blissful, over the moon, transported, on cloud nine, excited, high When we know what the …
Ignominious 1100 Words You Need Week 36 Day 4 Ignominious 1100 Words You Need Week 36 Day 4 /ˌɪg.nəˈmɪn.i.əs/ (adj) embarrassing, deserving or causing public disgrace or shame, undignified, ignoble, inglorious, shameful, despicable, humiliating, mortifying, discomforting, disgraceful, reprehensible, dishonorable, disreputable, discreditable General Sir John Cope arrived by sea at Dunbar in 1745 with a force …
Penury 1100 Words You Need Week 36 Day 4 Penury 1100 Words You Need Week 36 Day 4 /ˈpen.jʊ.ri/ US /-jʊr.i/ (noun) extreme poverty, neediness, indigence, pennilessness, destitution, impecuniousness, impoverishment, pauperism, privation, beggary Dr. Raja made his foster parents proud conquering penury all through his years at the Karur Municipal School and the Government Arts …
Covet 1100 Words You Need Week 36 Day 4 Covet 1100 Words You Need Week 36 Day 4 /ˈkʌv.ɪt/ (verb) to desire something strongly particularly something that belongs to another person, envy, yearn for, crave, wish for, have one’s heart set on, long for, hunger for, thirst for, want, hanker Once all of the items …