Top Tier IELTS Essential Academic Vocabulary

Comprehensive vocabulary flashcards covering all 50 key academic IELTS terms, complete with their verbatim definitions from the Top Tier IELTS preparation material.

Abundant

More than enough

Alleviate

To make something bad as pain or problems less severe

Ambiguous

Having or expressing more than one possible meaning, sometimes intentionally

Comprehensive

Complete and including everything that is necessary

Contribute

To give something, especially money, in order to provide or achieve something together with other people

Crucial

Extremely important or necessary

Decline

To gradually become less, worse, or lower

Diverse

Including many different types of people or things

Emphasize

To show that something is very important or worth giving attention to

Enhance

To improve the quality, amount, or strength of something

Evident

Easily seen or understood

Feasible

Able to be made, done, or achieved

Fluctuate

To change, especially continuously and between one level or thing and another

Fundamental

Forming the base, from which everything else develops

Generate

To cause something to exist

Implement

To start using a plan or system

Inevitable

Certain to happen and unable to be avoided or prevented

Innovative

Using new methods or ideas

Integrate

To mix with and join society or a group of people, often changing to suit their way of life, habits, and customs

Interpret

To decide what the meaning of something is

Mitigate

To make something less harmful, unpleasant, or bad

Notion

A belief or idea

Obvious

Easy to see, recognize, or understand

Perceive

To come to an opinion about something, or have a belief about something

Predominantly

Mostly or mainly

Prominent

Very well known and important

Provoke

To cause a reaction, especially a negative one

Rapid

Fast or sudden

Resilient

Able to be happy, successful, etc. again after something difficult or bad has happened

Scarce

Not easy to find or get

Significant

Important or noticeable

Substantial

Large in size, value, or importance

Sustainable

Able to continue over a period of time

Tendency

If someone has a tendency to do or like something, they will probably do it or like it

Transform

To change completely the appearance or character of something or someone, especially so that that thing or person is improved

Utilize

To use something in an effective way

Vast

Extremely big

Viable

Able to work as intended or able to succeed

Vulnerable

Able to be easily physically or mentally hurt, influenced, or attacked

Widespread

Existing or happening in many places and/or among many people

Accomplish

To finish something successfully or to achieve something

Accurate

Correct, exact, and without any mistakes

Adequate

Enough or satisfactory for a particular purpose

Advocate

To publicly support or suggest an idea, development, or way of doing something

Allocate

To give something to someone as their share of a total amount, to use in a particular way

Assess

To judge or decide the amount, value, quality, or importance of something

Assume

To accept something to be true without question or proof

Compile

To collect information from different places and arrange it in a book, report, or list

Consequently

As a result

Controversial

Causing disagreement or discussion

Alleviate

Облегчать, смягчать

Ambiguous

Неясный, двусмысленный

Comprehensive

Полный, охватывающий все, разносторонний

Crucial

Крайне важный, ключевой, очень важный

Contribute

Вносить вклад

Emphasize

Подчеркивать важность

Feasible

Осуществимый, реализуемый, возможный

Evident

Явный, очевидный

Fundamental

Основополагающий , фундаментальный

Implement

Внедрять, осуществлять

Mitigate

Смягчать последствия

Predominantly

В основном, в преимуществе

Prominent

Известный, выдающийся

Resilient

Устойчивый, восстанавливающийся

Scarce

Редкий, ограниченный, дефицитный

Substantial

Существенный, крупный

Utilize

Использовать эффективно

Viable

Жизнеспособный

Accomplish

Успешно выполнять, достигать

Allocate

распределять ресурсы

Compile

Собирать, составлять

Consequently

Следовательно

Prominent