Hi there! It's Asiya. You may already know that you need to avoid repeating
words in IELTS Writing. It would show IELTS examiner that you have a wide range of
vocabulary and help you get a high score for your lexical resource.
So today I've prepared for you synonyms for common adjectives used in IELTS
Writing and I'm going to show you how to use each word, give you some examples and
collocations that will help you use new words
correctly. I also have a PDF document with synonyms for 20 other adjectives
which I'm not going to show you today and you can download it later okay.
Ready? Let's get started.
In IELTS Writing we often talk about rich and poor people so instead of
saying rich you can see wealthy they mean the same thing you can also say
well-off and well-off family or you can say better off people who are better off
and these adjectives are often used in negative situations growths are
available for less well-off families you can also say affluent of prosperous both
are quite formal and you can say rich wealthy prosperous or affluent to talk
about people or places but there are some patterns if you talk about a family
you can say a rich wealthy prosperous affluent or well-off family you can use
all of them if you talk about a particular person you you can say a rich
will see prosperous well-off men or woman but you typically don't say an
affluent person and if you're talking about a city or a country you can say a
rich wealthy prosperous affluent country or city but not well-off as you know in
English sound words I often use together while others aren't and these are
collocations and if you know collocations you can get a higher goal
another adjective you could use is money it's quite full and it means someone is
rich and powerful of the moneyed class you can also use the word privileged
it's not just rich it means that someone has special rights and special
advantages that only a small number of people have a privileged background or
upbringing and you can turn a couple of adjectives into nouns and say the rich
or the well-off both are plural and you say average are here is an example
everyday of the split between the rich and the poor widens what synonyms can
you use to talk about the poor well you can say disadvantaged it means
that someone has less money and fewer opportunities than most people in
society a new educational program has been set up for economically
disadvantaged children and it's nice cavitation economically disadvantaged
you can also say they disadvantaged and use it as a noun it will be plural that
the disadvantaged are these measures are intended to help the disadvantaged you
can also say needy needy is mostly used to describe people as a group don't use
it to talk about an individual person or about your own circumstances for example
you can say needy children or needy families to talk about many children and
many families but it would be weird to say he grew up in a needy family don't
use it this way you can also say impoverished it's quite formal and it's
often used to talk about countries you can also say deprived someone doesn't
have enough food education and all the things that are necessary for people to
live a comfortable life here are some patterns if you talk about people or
families you can use all of them poor disadvantaged community impoverished or
deprived similarly when you talk about areas you can use all of them too but
it's very comin to hear about deprived areas when
you talk about countries say poor disadvantaged or impoverished country
basically you say a deprived area but an impoverished country ok and when you
talk about someone's background you can say a poor disadvantaged impoverished or
deprived background but not needy background and another synonym is
underprivileged to describe someone rich you can see privileged to describe
someone poor it is the underprivileged it means disadvantaged having less money
and fewer opportunities than other people in society children from an
underprivileged family background are statistically more likely to become
involved in crime and I like this phrase and underprivileged family background
the next adjective we are going to talk about is wrong and the synonym is
incorrect it means not accurate or true incorrect information or incorrect
spelling we can also say false it means wrong not correct or true and it's
common to say a false argument a false assumption belief or impression a formal
adjective would be erroneous it means not correct based on wrong information
the theory is based on several erroneous beliefs or you can say that someone's
opinion is based on an erroneous belief that another formal adjective is
fallacious it means not correct a fallacious argument or this argument is
based on fallacious reason and of course you can always say
inaccurate how can you talk about cheap and expensive things oh when you want to
say that something is cheap you can say inexpensive it sounds quite formal and
there is a little difference when you say inexpensive you mean the price is
quite low but the quality is still good so it's positive and when you say cheap
you often mean that it's low priced but also of poor quality you can also say
affordable it means most people can afford it and
let's have a look at some collocations when you're talking about prices say
cheap affordable or reasonable prices face or race and if you're talking about
products or services say cheap affordable inexpensive the product is
inexpensive and the prices are reasonable you can also say low priced
there are no current plans to introduce free or low price travel generally when
you're describing something expensive you can use a couple of synonyms and
there were expensive can have a positive meaning that something is expensive and
it's good or a negative meaning that it's expensive it's too expensive so
when you mean it's too expensive you can say costly it's formal and it means
costing a lot of money too expensive the failure to react will prove costly it
can also say overpriced it also means too expensive due to
overpriced housing many young people cannot afford to buy a property the next
common adjective is enough to replace it we can
say sufficient there is no sufficient evidence to claim that whatever you can
also say adequate without the adequate provision of child care many women who
wish to work are unable to do so the next word is helpful
I think it's overused in ours essays you can say beneficial it would be a formal
way to say helpful work experience is usually highly beneficial for students
you can also say that something is valuable instead of saying that the
Internet is helpful or useful you can say the Internet can be a valuable
learning tool and the next word is advantageous it means good or useful in
a particular situation this plan could be advantageous for people on low
incomes okay that's enough for today learn new words but more importantly
learn allocations and phrases they will really help you increase your score and
don't forget to download the PDF with synonyms 420 all the adjectives we
haven't talked about today I'm gonna link it on the screen and in the video
description box below and if you like this video I have a playlist with videos
about IELTS vocabulary thank you for watching me today good luck with your
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