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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Bury the Hatchet 1100 Words Bury the Hatchet 1100 Words to make peace after an argument and become friends again, end a quarrel, be reconciled, kiss and make up, resolve differences: Watch this video on YouTube European Central Bank policymakers buried the hatchet at their meeting last month, dropping criticism of a money-printing program that …
Relegate 1100 Words You Need Relegate 1100 Words You Need /ˈrel.ɪ.geɪt/ (verb) to downgrade someone’s position or job, demote someone or something, degrade, consign, reduce in importance, lower, exile someone: Watch this video on YouTube Law firm may not “choose” between conflicting present clients and withdraw from representation so as to relegate one present client …
Overt 1100 Words You Need Overt 1100 Words You Need /əʊˈvɜːt/ (adjective) done publicly and in an obvious way, open, unconcealed, explicit, plain, evident, apparent, blatant, manifest, clear: Watch this video on YouTube The authors describe one intervention called the jigsaw classroom that encourages work toward common goals and helps reduce the expression and impact …
Nettle 1100 Words You Need Nettle 1100 Words You Need /ˈnet.ļ/ (noun & verb) to annoy and irritate someone, bother, pester, vex, badger, needle, aggravate, enrage, provoke, hassle, bedevil, tease, get in one’s hair, to sting someone – (noun): a wild type of plant with stinging leaves: Watch this video on YouTube The high spirit …
Inveigh 1100 Words You Need Inveigh 1100 Words You Need / ɪnveɪ / (verb) to criticize someone severely, speak out angrily, protest, fulminate, complain, castigate, rebuke, reprimand, denounce, reprove, reproach, censure, scold, point the finger at, tell off, chide, lecture: Watch this video on YouTube Working at home over several weekends, Allen created and published …
Aspire 1100 Words You Need Week 14 Day 1 Aspire 1100 Words You Need Week 14 Day 1 / əspaɪə/ (verb) to desire, to have an ambition to do something, wish, aim, hope, seek: Watch this video on YouTube According to a new survey from CareerBuilder, the vast majority of American workers do not, in …
English Vocabulary Learning Campaign English Vocabulary Learning Campaign lets you learn English vocabulary from each other in an interactive way through finding and making authentic examples of difficult and academic vocabulary that is frequently used in the English tests like IELTS and TOEFL. Please consider the following to join this educational campaign: Find three authentic …
Keep The Pot Boiling 1100 Words Keep The Pot Boiling 1100 Words to keep people interested in something, e.g. a plan or idea, engage someone’s interest or attention, to interest someone, to make sure that someone remains interested and involved in something: Watch this video on YouTube The diplomat was invited to the negotiating table …
Inchoate 1100 Words You Need Inchoate 1100 Words You Need /ɪnˈkoʊət/ (adjective) starting to develop, just beginning, burgeoning, nascent, incipient, beginning, immature, undeveloped, emergent, developing, budding, embryonic: Watch this video on YouTube A basic idea of pragmatism can be formulated as the view that it is action, rather than consciousness, that is the vehicle of …
Cryptic 1100 Words You Need Cryptic 1100 Words You Need /ˈkrɪptɪk/ (adjective) Something that is mysterious, secret, ambiguous, difficult to understand, puzzling, obscure, enigmatic, hidden, hazy, nebulous, vague: (Zoology) serving to conceal an animal in its natural habitat Watch this video on YouTube This Luxembourg cave is covered in cryptic looking marks left by mining …