[LINGUISTICS]IELTS Vocabulary: Learn 300 Essential Words for IELTS

🗣analogy=> analogous

=> The term ‘social capital’ was coined by analogy with the conventional use of the word to mean financial assets.

=> You can make an analogy between the courses of the planets and two trains traveling in the same direction.

-analogy with

-analogy between

-draw analogy

-good analogy

----> comparison----> resemblance----> similarity----> parallel

🗣nuance

=> We can use our eyes and facial expressions to communicate every subtle nuance of emotion there is.

=> If you read the Koran in translation, you miss the nuances of the original language.

-subtle nuance

-nuance of language

-understand a nuance

-appreciate a nuance

----> subtlety----> hint

🗣coin (v.)=> coined=>coining

=> She coined the term ‘virtual reality’ and pioneered its early development.

=> Simone de Beauvoir first coined the phrase ‘women’s liberation’ in her book, The Second Sex.

-coin a phrase

-coin a word

-coined by

-first coined

----> create----> come up with----> invert

🗣connotation=> connotation

=> In Norse mythology, Hell is the realm of the dead, but the name doesn’t carry the negative connotations which Christianity later placed on it.

=> ‘Urchin’, with its connotation of mischievousness, may not be a particularly apt word.

-negative connotation

-sexual connotation

-connotation of a word

-connotation of a term

----> overtone----> association----> meaning----> undertone

🗣figurative=> figuratively

=> Most poems are written in figurative language.

=> It’s an event that will change your life in both the literal and the figurative sense.

-figurative language

-figurative sense

-figurative description

-figurative image

----> metaphorical----> fanciful----> descriptive----> figure of speech

🗣literal=> literally

=> People there are fighting, in a literal sense, for their lives.

=> The concert ended with a bang in the most literal sense.

=> A literal translation of the word is ‘walls’.

-literal translation

-literal interpretation

-literal sense

-literal meaning

----> exact----> authentic----> actual----> untarnished

🗣metaphor=> metaphorical

=> The writer’s use of metaphor is very fitting for the topic.

=> If you want to explore music as a metaphor for society, this book is the place to start.

=> He goes further, extending the metaphor beyond the game itself to the business of the NFL.

-metaphor for something

-a perfect metaphor

-a visual metaphor

-a fitting metaphor

----> analogy----> image----> symbol----> allegory