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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Lugubrious 1100 Words You Need /luːˈguː.bri.əs/ (adj) sad and depressed, morose, gloomy, mournful, melancholic, somber, doleful, miserable, cheerless, wretched, dismal, downbeat, depressing No such consideration can excuse my difficulty with “lugubrious.” I do recall when I first saw that one. A classmate in high school wrote in my yearbook “The vicissitudes of life are very …
Maudlin 1100 Words You Need Maudlin 1100 Words You Need /ˈmɔːd.lɪn/ (adj) overemotional and sentimental, tearfully sentimental, feeling sad, self-pitying, weepy, tearful, moody, delicate, touchy: She began to busy herself with getting dinner ready. Staring out the window, her mind drifting as she peeled potatoes. She looked at what she had and grabbed a couple …
Unabated 1100 Words You Need Unabated 1100 Words You Need /ˌʌn.əˈbeɪ.tɪd/ (adj) without weakening in force or strength, without subsiding, just as forceful as before, undiminished, persistent, unrelieved, relentless, unrestricted, unrelenting, unceasing: Violence against civilians escalated in Myanmar, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), South Sudan, Central African Republic and Iraq in 2017. It continued …
Puissant 1100 Words You Need Puissant 1100 Words You Need /ˈpjuːɪs(ə)nt/ (adj) strong and powerful, mighty, vigorous, forceful, potent, forcible, corrosive Corrosive and puissant substances are substances that can damage tissues when they come in contact with them. An example of a corrosive substance is the liquid, hydrochloric acid, an acid used in some toilet …
Tongue In Cheek 1100 Words Tongue In Cheek 1100 Words (adj, adv & idiom) if you say something tongue in cheek, you don’t take it seriously and consider it to be funny, be joking about something, amusing and hilarious, witty and comic, jokey, droll, in jest, insincere The teacher had his tongue in his cheek …
Trenchant 1100 Words You Need Trenchant 1100 Words You Need /ˈtren.tʃənt/ (adj) expressed in a direct and incisive manner, expressing strong criticism and forceful opinions, straightforward, candid, to the point, cutting, sharp, biting, acerbic, severe, penetrating, forthright, caustic In April 1989 a trenchant critic of Roger Douglas’s economic policies, Jim Anderton, resigned from the Labour …
Sultry 1100 Words You Need Sultry 1100 Words You Need /ˈsʌl.tri/ (adj) (of weather) uncomfortably warm and too humid, hot and damp, hot and humid, baking, oppressive, boiling, scorching, roasting (of women) sexy and sensual, erotic March 1st, the state of the weather and the range of the thermometer precisely the same as on the …
Edifice 1100 Words You Need Edifice 1100 Words You Need /ˈed.ɪ.fɪs/ (noun) a large and impressive building, construction, pile, mansion a system that has been founded and established for a long time, a large or complex structure or organization, network, group, association, society The Manila hotel was a magnificent edifice. Surviving the battles of World …
Vicissitudes 1100 Words You Need Vicissitudes 1100 Words You Need /vɪˈsɪs.ɪ.tjuːdz/ (noun) all the changes and problems that make a situation even worse, difficulties, hardships, predicaments, variations, ups and downs, fluctuations, deviations: “Today is another day! Yesterday is gone but not its memories. There were so many things we expected yesterday which did not happen …
Extant 1100 Words You Need Extant 1100 Words You Need /ekˈstænt/ (adj) describing something which is old but still existing, still in existence, present, surviving, existent, living: Another point to consider is the following. An object’s causal efficacy may depend on what happens to other objects. E.g., the efficacy of a particular copy of a …