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IELTS Writing Task 2 topics keep coming back: environment, education, technology, health, work and city life. Learn 10 key words and their collocations for each.
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Don't stop at the first meaning. A dictionary entry also gives part of speech, other senses, examples, stress marks, synonyms and word forms.
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IELTS: vocabulary (Lexical Resource) is a quarter of your Writing and Speaking score. Simple words used correctly beat hard words used wrongly.
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Colour or color? Both are correct. Bangladeshi and Indian textbooks usually use British spelling; in IELTS either works, but don't mix them.
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Bank job exams in Bangladesh: know both meanings of interest, balance, credit and capital. 30 banking words with Bengali meanings.
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Admission tests in Bangladesh: most English questions are vocabulary. Study academic word lists and past papers; in the last three weeks, revision only.

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REcord (noun) or reCORD (verb)? In English, stress can change the meaning. Rules for noun/verb pairs and -tion, -ic, -ity words.

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Buy or purchase? Kids or children? English marks formality by word choice. 40 informal words with formal equivalents.

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BCS Preliminary English: 30 marks from the 50th BCS, minus 0.50 per wrong answer. Learn each word with its synonym, antonym and word forms.

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Privacy, awkward, sibling, excited: English words with no exact Bengali match.
And অভিমান or আড্ডা have no one-word English either.

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Word of the day: honest (adjective) — telling the truth and not cheating or stealing

বাংলা: সৎ; সত্যবাদী

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Give up, put off, look up, hand in: common phrasal verbs with Bengali meanings, and why it's 'turn it off', not 'turn off it'.

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Madhyamik English (West Bengal): textbook words, phrasal verbs, and ten minutes a day from Class 9.

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Word of the day: improve (verb) — to make something better

বাংলা: উন্নতি করা; ভালো করা

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Word of the day: eager (adjective) — wanting to do or have something very much

বাংলা: আগ্রহী, উৎসুক

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The k in know, the b in doubt, the l in walk.
English silent letters, by pattern.

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Word of the day: humble (adjective) — not proud; modest about one's own importance

বাংলা: বিনম্র; নিরহংকার

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un + pre + dict + able = unpredictable.

Prefixes, suffixes and roots unlock unknown words.

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Word of the day: appreciate (verb) — to be thankful for or recognize the value of something

বাংলা: কৃতজ্ঞ হওয়া; মূল্য দেওয়া

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@JArthemis38328 Thank you, that’s a great tip! A few more for IELTS Speaking: very happy = delighted, very important = crucial, very difficult = challenging. One strong word sounds more natural than “very” plus a weak one 🙌

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IELTS Speaking: stop saying good, nice and very.

Exact words work better: delicious, exhausted, packed.

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