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IELTS Writing Vocab for Argumentative Essays
1. Education
Basic Vocab
- academic
- academic performance
- achievement
- assessment
- assistance
- campus
- concentrate on
- cooperate
- cooperation
- culture shock
- differ
- dissatisfaction
- economical
- enrich life experience
- evaluate
- exchange
- expense
- experience
- explore
- expression
- fierce social competition
- financial
- first-rate facilities
- forget food and sleep
- generation gap
- guarantee
- head for crime
- high-quality
- homesick
- homesickness
- honesty
- imagination
- impress
- impression
- job-hunting
- lazy
- leisure time
- master
- mold
- narrow-minded
- open-minded
- simple-minded
- nature
- necessities of life
- obey
- occupy
- potential
- prospect
- purchase
- puzzle
- qualification
- quality education
- reality
- receive further education
- reflect
- respond quickly
- reward
- scholarship
- security
- select
- selfish
- self-supporting
- sense of loss
- shortage of talent
- skip classes
- stimulate
- stimulate interest
- strength and weakness
- survival ability
- take advantage of
- take up
- talent
- team spirit
- time-consuming
- tuition fee
- understanding
- urgent
- virtual world
- virtue
- well-trained
Advanced Vocab
- assume responsibility
- brain drain
- bring the talents into full play
- build self-esteem
- challenge the authority
- depressed
- distinct
- distinction
- distinguish right from wrong
- distract
- distraction
- dominate
- drop out
- fantastic
- foster
- frustrate
- frustrated
- fulfil
- have an incomparable advantage over
- idle
- improper
- individuality
- inferiority complex
- innocent
- irresponsible
- juvenile delinquency
- juvenile delinquent
- money worship
- motivation
- notable
- objective
- peer
- prone to
- remarkable
- render
- resist the temptation
- revenge
- rudimentary knowledge
- self-betterment
- spark creativity
- squeeze time
- supervise
- supervision and guidance
- systematic
- thrifty
- tolerance
- uncivilised
- undergo
- undisciplined
2. Family
Basic Vocab
- aged
- be close to
- be concerned about
- comfort
- spiritual comfort
- consolation
- economic burden
- exchange feelings
- leisure activities
- make holidays together
- marriage
- nursing home
- one-child family
- repay
- respect the old
- senior citizen
- share joys and sorrows
- traditional customs
- work overtime
Advanced Vocab
- affection
- attachment of one's family
- attend to
- bridge the generation gap
- clear up misunderstanding
- conversation
- desert
- discord
- domestic chores
- drive off loneliness
- gratitude
- ingratitude
- be devoid of gratitude
- harmonious family atmosphere
- ill-treat
- maltreat
- intimate
- liability
- living tempo
- mobility
- moral obligation
- mutual
- old age boom
- old and infirm
- pension
- regard
- remaining life
- social security
- social security foundation
- unshirkable
- upgrade oneself
3. Technology
Basic Vocab
- accelerate
- acquire
- amazing
- automatic
- computer virus
- conquer
- consume
- contain
- copyright protection
- cozy
- crisis
- device
- disaster
- discovery
- distance education
- tele-education
- donate
- dreadful
- electric appliances
- fatal
- forecast
- gene
- global
- high reliability
- impractical
- improve work efficiency
- improvement
- increase the productivity
- innovation
- invention
- investment
- keep up with
- lack of face-to-face contact
- lengthen life expectancy
- lower the cost
- lower the risk
- memory
- military
- near-sighted
- new era
- outweigh
- overcome
- patience
- perform
- personality
- property
- pursue
- revolution
- surpass
Advanced Vocab
- accomplish
- advantageous
- anticipate
- anticipation
- availability
- breakthrough
- catastrophe
- characteristic
- commercial
- complicated
- compulsory
- conscience
- contradict
- convey
- cream
- destructive power
- deterioration
- dominant
- enhance
- facilitate
- fantasy
- fertilizer
- hinder
- imitate
- incredible
- infant mortality
- instantly
- irrational
- irresistible
- launch
- luxury
- mitigate
- modernise
- money laundering
- moral
- mysterious
- nonreversible
- nuclear leakage
- obscure
- offender
- optimistic
- promising
- racism
- retain
- rumour
- social interaction
- social isolation
- substitute
- terrorism
- undermine the social stability
- unprecedented
- wipe out
4. Media
Basic Vocab
- be flooded with
- bloody
- cartoon
- censor
- commodity
- confirm
- conventional media
- customer
- distrust
- disturbing
- drug
- entertain
- entertaining
- erotic picture
- impose/place restrictions on
- impressive
- limit
- rating system
- realistic
- restrict
- sales promotion
- truthful
- visual enjoyment
- vivid picture
Advanced Vocab
- appealing
- artistic
- awareness
- be apt to
- be disgusted with
- be exposed to
- be fed up with
- bewilder
- captive
- comedic
- deceitful
- deceptive
- distinguish between fantasy and reality
- exaggerate
- harsher censorship
- imitation
- indulge
- instructional
- interruption
- obscene
- pornography
- popularise
- prevalent
- publicise
- pursuit
- recall
- regulate
- reinforce
- retain the strengths and discard the weaknesses
- rigid
- stereotype
- witty language
5. Animals
Basic Vocab
- animal experimentation
- experiment
- do/perform experiment
- animal right group
- bull fighting
- cold-blooded
- creature
- cruel
- cruelty
- cure
- disease
- illness
- life-threatening diseases
- ecosystem
- endangered species
- rare animal
- test animal
- wild animal
- wildlife
- food provider
- genetic
- habitat
- halt
- hunt
- helper
- inconclusive
- inefficient
- infected
- medical advances
- medical breakthrough
- medical research
- merciless
- natural selection
- origin of species
- operation
- organ
- severe pain
- treatment
Advanced Vocab
- alternative
- anesthetic
- animal right activists
- animal right advocates
- barbaric
- be subjected to experiments
- biology
- captivity
- capture
- computer stimulation
- confinement
- deprivation
- dominance
- elimination
- emergence
- hybrid
- inflict
- infringement
- laboratory
- penicillin
- physiological
- predator
- replicate
- right of subsistence
- synthetic stuff
- therapy
- tissue
- torture
- vaccine
6. Environment, Resources and Transportation
Basic Vocab
- atmospheric pollution
- break down
- break rules or regulations
- bury
- car owner
- chemical substance
- chemical waste
- classify
- clean up
- conservation
- preservation
- conserve
- preserve
- crowding
- cut down
- deforestation
- dirty
- downtown
- driving license
- drunk driving
- dust
- ecological balance
- ecological equilibrium
- ecological system
- emission
- emit
- energy crisis
- energy-saving
- energy shortage
- environment
- environmentally-friendly material
- excess
- excessive speed
- exhaust gas
- exhaustion
- exploit
- fatal natural disaster
- filter
- fine
- flow of traffic
- food chain
- footpath
- fuel
- fundamental facilities
- greenhouse effect
- greenhouse gas
- groundwater
- headache
- household rubbish
- illegal dumping
- junk
- refuse
- urban garbage
- garbage classification
- maximum
- minimum
- natural resource
- noise pollution
- observe traffic regulation
- overpass
- overspeed
- packaging materials
- parking lot
- passenger
- pedestrian
- poison
- pollute
- pollution
- private car
- promote the public awareness
- of environmental protection
- arouse people's awareness
- of environmental protection
- public transportation
- public transportation system
- mass transit system
- purify
- rainfall
- raw material
- recyclable
- reforestation
- renewable energy source
- reuse
- reusable
- route
- ruin the environment
- sandstorm
- sewage purification
- sewage treatment
- shortage of natural resource
- smokeless industry
- soil erosion
- soil pollution
- solid waste
- space-saving
- speed limit
- speed up
- tax
- traffic accident
- traffic congestion
- traffic jam
- traffic rules and regulations
- underground railroad
- underpass
- use up
- utilise
- volunteer
- waste disposal
- waste gas
- waste water
- water body pollution
- white pollution
- worsen
Advanced Vocab
- arable land
- biodegradable
- detergent
- conscious preserver
- contaminant
- contaminate
- contamination
- cost of disposal
- decontamination
- degrade
- demolish
- depredate
- descendant
- devastation
- disposable product
- disposal fee
- disregard
- disastrous
- draft
- environmental degradation
- fertile
- finite resource
- forfeit
- foul
- fume
- harsh
- impeded traffic
- inner ring
- lay down
- legislation
- levy on
- maim
- messy
- mutilate
- nasty
- penalise
- penalty
- pesticide
- revoke
- run the red light
- steering wheel
- suspend a license
- temporal interest
- toxic
- violator
- wasteland
- zebra crossing
7. Tradition and Developmental Change
Basic Vocab
- a distinct cultural identity
- a sense of belonging
- Americanisation
- an endangered language
- ancestor
- ancient
- be on the way to extinction
- be under threat of extinction
- be proud of
- take pride in
- blend
- brilliant
- characteristic
- cherish
- cherished
- contact
- cornerstone
- costume
- craft
- cultural and spiritual life
- cultural diversity
- cultural globalisation
- cultural treasure
- destruction of diversity
- die out
- disappearance
- enhance mutual understanding
- equal
- financial assistance
- heritage
- lifestyle
- old-fashioned
- out of date
- outside influence
- symbol
- traditional
- unique national identity
- variety
Advanced Vocab
- antiquated idea
- assimilation
- calligraphy
- ceremony
- collide with
- continuation of a tradition
- cream of national culture
- culture penetration
- degradation of social atmosphere
- diverse beliefs and values
- dominated
- embrace change
- gallery
- gorgeous
- homogenous
- honour and preserve multicultural artistic heritage
- ignorant
- indigenous
- integrate with
- mainstream
- national estrangement
- obsolete
- overwhelm
- permanent
- protect and carry forward
- reject the dross and assimilate the essence
- sculpture
- splendid
- static
- superficial
- superstitious
- temple
- transform
- unparalleled
- vanish
8. Government
Basic Vocab
- capital punishment
- censorship
- construction of infrastructure
- enjoy the freedom
- establishment
- freedom of opinion and expression
- freedom of thought
- grant
- healthcare and social service
- human right
- limited budget
- military service
- orderly
- privacy
- prohibit
- provide financial assistance
- public fund
- remove bans
- set free
- social security
Advanced Vocab
- allocate
- allocation of fund
- be subject to political constraints
- civil right
- confidential
- constitute
- constraint
- democratic
- enact
- euthanasia
- give full value and support to
- government agency
- government interference
- invade
- just
- justified
- liberty
- mandatory taxation
- monopoly
- oppression
- political constraint
- set down
- sponsorship
- stringent
- tax deduction
- thriving
- unprejudiced
9. Equality
Basic Vocab
- be equally treated
- be laid off
- bodyguard
- common people
- cultural life
- declare one's income
- entertainer
- equal right
- female
- make a living
- male
- outcome
- salary
- second-rate citizen
- sexual discrimination
- well-paid
Advanced Vocab
- depreciate
- elite
- feminist campaign
- fortunate
- fortune
- general mood
- social temper
- lavish
- make a name for oneself
- multiply one's wealth
- noted star
- one in a hundred
- painstaking
- personal income tax payment
- privilege
- regardless of income or social class
- spectacular
- strive for
- struggle
- take enormous risks
- tax evasion
- top entertainer
- zeal
10. Social Issues
Basic Vocab
- account for
- acquire a second language
- adopt the measure of
- adverse effect
- be attractive to
- carry guns
- city-dweller
- commit a crime
- competitive
- cogent
- crime rate
- death penalty
- deterrent
- drug abuse
- first impression
- integrity
- inviolable
- make sb. astray
- obesity
- outspoken
- recreation
- self-defense
- underweight
- vocation
- youngster
Advanced Vocab
- career advisory
- competition and cooperation
- controversial
- cozy atmosphere
- crack down
- dilemma
- have divergent attitudes towards
- law-abiding citizen
- malfeasance
- mandatory retirement
- overpopulation
- pour into
- reclamation
- reform and opening-up policy
- scare off
- strike hard against
- take into consideration
- trigger off
Reference: IELTS Writing Quick Guide 雅思寫作速記寶典