Academic vocabulary

Improve your academic vocabulary. Which of the following words are safe to use for your IELTS writing task 2 essay? The meaning for each word is given in brackets

  • Dissonance (discord / difference of opinion)
  • Gist (general idea / essence)
  • Latent (concealed / hidden)
  • Quack (fake / swindler)
  • Falter (hesitate)
  • Partially (not completely / to a degree)
  • Prattle (chatter)
  • Orate (make a speech)
Answers
There is only one word which cannot be used in an academic piece of writing and that is the word “quack”. This is slang and is inappropriate to use in formal writing. However, although the other words are acceptable to use, the word “prattle” is unlikely to be used but of course it does depend on the topic of the essay . Furthermore, the word “gist” can be used in formal writing, for example ” the gist of the argument was …” but be careful of other ways of using this word.

Comments

  1. HI Liz,

    words mentioned in academic vocabulary can I use them in General training IELTS writing task 2 ? Because I am going to take GT test.

    Thank you.

  2. Avinash Yadav says

    Hi,
    I am Avinash from India. I have some issues with writing task 2. Last time I got 5.5 bands in writing. Can you please help mine in improving this skill.

  3. sanjeewanie says

    Dear Mam,
    Can I know whether we can use idioms, quotes or saying in task 2?

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    I am from Bangalore India, I have appeared for IELTS 5 times but I did not cross 6.5 I am feeling weak in speaking and writing. My target band score is 7 in individual module. Could you suggest me the tips.

    Regards,

  8. Ebrahim says

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  9. How could i improve my listening and speaking ? could you plz help me ?

  10. Hello liz
    I want to ask you about the IELTS EXAM
    my native language is Arabic . and i attended to study in the UK, as you know the minimum
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