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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Sedentary 1100 Words You Need Sedentary 1100 Words You Need /ˈsed.ən.tri/ (adj) involving little physical activity or exercise, involving a lot of sitting, sitting, inactive, deskbound: Consider how much you sit in a day: driving during your morning commute to an 8-hour-a-day desk job, and then unwinding on the couch in front of the television …
Bulwark 1100 Words You Need Bulwark 1100 Words You Need /ˈbʊl.wək/ (noun) something like a shield that protects you against dangerous things or situations, defensive wall, protection, fortification, barricade, safeguard, buffer, barrier: Financially empowered women are a “bulwark against societal evils”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said while interacting with more than 10 million …
Prolific 1100 Words You Need Prolific 1100 Words You Need /prəˈlɪf.ɪk/ (adj) producing a great amount of good results or babies, fertile, productive, creative, fruitful, profuse existing in great numbers, abundant, plentiful, manifold, copious, abounding, bountiful It has to be stated, because often I hear writers lament about their writing speed, the size of their …
Beeline 1100 Words You Need Beeline 1100 Words You Need in a direct path or line from one place to another, a shortcut ‘She made a beeline for him’: Hollywood hunting as Mel Gibson sighted in Carleton Place: “She made a beeline for him and I was left in the wings,” Beath joked. “ … …
Interloper 1100 Words You Need Interloper 1100 Words You Need /ˈɪn.təˌləʊ.pəʳ/ (noun) an intruding person who becomes involved in an activity which does not concern them, an intruder into a gathering or social event, gatecrasher, impostor, meddler, trespasser: I also agree that the doctor’s conduct is to be differentiated from that of, for example, an …
Cursory 1100 Words You Need Cursory 1100 Words You Need /ˈkɜː.sər.i/ (adj) done in a quick and superficial way, passing, brief, hasty, hurried, perfunctory, rapid, desultory, fleeting: From the 1970s onwards, photographs as documentary evidence soon became established as a social research technique more widely across the social sciences. However, popularity over time has both …
Habitat 1100 Words You Need Habitat 1100 Words You Need /ˈhæb.ɪ.tæt/ (noun) the natural home or environment for special animals or plants species to grow well, territory, locale, surroundings, haunt, habitation: The term natural habitat refers to an environment occurring naturally in forests, wetlands, deserts, grasslands and the Arctic tundra, which supports a particular species …
Indigenous 1100 Words You Need Indigenous 1100 Words You Need /ɪnˈdɪdʒ.ɪ.nəs/ (adj) naturally living or existing in a particular place or habitat and not coming from outside, native, homegrown, original, ethnic, local: ‘Native’ or ‘indigenous’ refers to a species or race that occurs naturally in an area (for this review, the UK), i.e. whose dispersal …
Hear Something on the Grapevine Hear Something on the Grapevine to hear something indirectly because the information is spread from one person to another, path along with information spreads, rumor mill, bush telegraph, gossip: I heard it on the grapevine that the manager and his secretary had a love affair after office hours. The rumor …
Controversial 1100 Words You Need Controversial 1100 Words You Need /ˌkɒn.trəˈvɜː.ʃəl/ (adj) Controversial definition arousing disagreement or discussion, causing argument, argumentative, contentious, debatable, provocative, notorious, scandalous, hot, heated: Example Controversial essays have either be controversial speeches or controversial essays. The controversial topics are quite usually strong opinions on a certain topic. Whenever you choose to …