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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Obscure 1100 Words You Need Week 27 Day 1 Obscure 1100 Words You Need Week 27 Day 1 /əbˈskjʊəʳ/ (adj & verb) Adjective: unclear and difficult to see through, opaque, hazy, nebulous, elusive, indistinct, hard to understand, incomprehensible, vague, ambiguous, murky, blurry, unknown Verb: to prevent something from being seen or heard, conceal, hide, make …
Array 1100 Words You Need Array 1100 Words You Need Week 27 Day 1 /əˈreɪ/ (noun & verb) a large group of people or things, a large number or collection of things or people, striking arrangement, selection, gamut, assortment, grouping, dress, clothing, to arrange a group of things or people, deploy, organize, put in order …
Pinnacle 1100 Words You Need Pinnacle 1100 Words You Need Week 27 Day 1 /ˈpɪn.ə.kļ/ (noun & verb) the highest point of something, acme, summit, zenith, the top part of a mountain, mountain peak, a small pointed tower on top of a building, pointed ornament on top of a building, crowning achievement, the most successful …
Sleep On It 1100 Words You Need Sleep On It 1100 Words You Need Week 26 Day 4 to think about a decision carefully before making it, reflect on something deeply, consider a case or decision profoundly, be reflective or pensive, contemplate, ponder, weigh In an experiment led by researchers at the University of Illinois, …
Cogent 1100 Words You Need Cogent 1100 Words You Need Week 26 Day 4 /ˈkəʊ.dʒənt/ (adj) convincing, clearly expressed and persuasive, influential, forceful, rationally persuasive, lucid, logical, coherent, sound Validity and strength of arguments do not on their own tell us whether arguments are good or bad. We’ve actually seen rubbish arguments that were valid. …
Terse 1100 Words You Need Terse 1100 Words You Need Week 26 Day 4 /tɜːs/ US /tɝːs/ (adj) brief and short in describing, succinct, concise, to the point, straightforward, brief and unfriendly, abrupt, curt, brusque, short and sweet Today’s “terse” is another word for “concise:” that is, anything terse is expressed in a very brief …
Transient 1100 Words You Need Transient 1100 Words You Need Week 26 Day 4 /ˈtræn.zi.ənt/ (adj) short-lived and ephemeral, impermanent, lasting for only a short time, temporary, short in duration, not permanently settled in a place, passing, brief, momentary, transitory, evanescent, someone living in a place temporarily, visitor, guest The exact cause of depersonalization is …
Gist 1100 Words You Need Gist 1100 Words You Need Week 26 Day 4 /’dʒɪst/ (noun) the essential point or meaning of something, essence, grounds for legal action, nucleus, core, idea, kernel, general picture, sense, meaning People can recognize the meaning of a scene, or the “gist,” during their first eye fixation on that scene; …
Once in a blue moon Once in a blue moon on a very rare occasion, rarely, seldom, scarcely, intermittently, once in a while, irregularly, now and then, not often It happens once in a blue moon that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new …
Intrinsic 1100 Words You Need Intrinsic 1100 Words You Need /ɪnˈtrɪn.zɪk/ (adj) internal and paramount, basic and rudimentary, principal, inherent, essential, fundamental, central, core, key, deep-seated, deep-rooted, innate, underlying This paper reports on a case study undertaken within a small, rural primary school in the UK to explore the extent to which it was possible …