IELTS Vocabulary

Lexical resource is a quarter of your IELTS Writing and Speaking score, and it is the band criterion you can improve most predictably — one word, one collocation at a time. This five-level path climbs from the topic vocabulary every question touches, through the Task 1 trend language and Task 2 argument words, to the collocations and band-9 lexis that make examiners stop skimming. Every card pairs the word with a natural example sentence, because IELTS rewards words used precisely — not words dropped in to impress.

Learning path

Level 1
Everyday IELTS Topics
Start here: the core vocabulary for the topics IELTS loves — education, environment, health, cities and work.
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Level 2
Describing Charts & Trends
The Writing Task 1 toolkit: verbs and phrases for rises, falls, peaks, plateaus and comparisons.
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Level 3
Opinion & Argument Language
Essay language for Writing Task 2: advocating, conceding, weighing drawbacks and drawing conclusions.
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Level 4
High-Score Collocations
Natural word pairings — pose a threat, bridge the gap, strike a balance — that lift your lexical-resource score.
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Level 5
Band 9 Vocabulary
The precision lexis of top scorers: ubiquitous, exacerbate, disparity, unprecedented — used correctly.
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Learning path

Everyday IELTS Topics

Describing Charts & Trends

Opinion & Argument Language

High-Score Collocations

Band 9 Vocabulary