IELTS Academic Vocabulary: Band 7 Equivalents

Common Word Band 7 Equivalent(s)

General
Significant Substantial, Considerable, Paramount, Pivotal, Crucial, Substantial, Major,
Considerable
Important Crucial, Critical, Indispensable, Vital, Paramount, Essential, Fundamental,
Significant
Show Demonstrate, Illustrate, Exemplify, Manifest, Evident, Reveal, Depict, Indicate
Increase Augment, Escalate, Intensify, Surge, Soar, Escalate Drastically, Rise Sharply,
Increase Substantially
Decrease Diminish, Decline, Deteriorate, DWINDLE, Subside, Plummet, Drastically Decline,
Diminish Rapidly, Plummet
Problem Issue, Challenge, Dilemma, Conundrum, Obstacle, Adversity, Predicament,
Difficulty
Change Transformation, Metamorphosis, Alteration, Modification, Evolution, Transition,
Shift, Alteration
Academic
Writing
Discuss Analyze, Evaluate, Critically Examine, Investigate, Scrutinize, Deliberate, Explore,
Discuss in depth
Explain Elaborate, Elucidate, Expound, Articulate, Clarify, Interpret, Account for, Elucidate
Argument Assertion, Contention, Proposition, Thesis, Hypothesis, Claim, Argumentation,
Assertion
Evidence Data, Findings, Proof, Corroboration, Empirical Data, Empirical Evidence,
Supporting Evidence
Conclusion Inference, Deduction, Resolution, Denouement, Culmination, Outcome, Conclusion,
Deduction
Task 1
(Academic)
High Substantial, Considerable, Significant, Prominent, Elevated, Substantial,
Considerable, Remarkable
Low Insignificant, Negligible, Minimal, Marginal, Inconsiderable, Trivial, Minor,
Negligible
Increase Surge, Soar, Escalate, Skyrocket, Rocket, Rise Sharply, Increase Substantially,
Experience a significant rise
Decrease Plunge, Plummet, Drastically Decline, Subside, Diminish Rapidly, Plummet,
Experience a sharp decline
Trend Tendency, Inclination, Proclivity, Disposition, Pattern, Inclination, Tendency, Trend
Task 2
(Academic)
Important Crucial, Paramount, Pivotal, Indispensable, Essential, Fundamental, Significant, Of
utmost importance
Advantage Benefit, Merit, Boon, Asset, Advantageous, Favorable, Benefit, Advantage
Disadvantage Drawback, Pitfall, Hindrance, Obstacle, Detriment, Shortcoming, Disadvantage,
Limitation
Opinion Perspective, Viewpoint, Standpoint, Outlook, Perspective, Point of View, Opinion,
View
Agree Concur, Assent, Subscribe to, Endorse, Advocate, Support, Agree, Support
Other Useful
Words
Affect Impact, Influence, Impinge on, Affect, Influence
Cause Result in, Lead to, Give rise to, Bring about, Generate, Cause
Effect Impact, Consequence, Outcome, Ramification, Effect, Impact
Develop Evolve, Progress, Advance, Flourish, Develop, Grow
Factors Elements, Components, Determinants, Influences, Factors, Contributing factors
Issues Concerns, Problems, Matters, Dilemmas, Issues, Challenges
Solutions Resolutions, Remedies, Recourses, Solutions, Solutions, Resolutions
Research Investigation, Study, Inquiry, Examination, Research, Study
Methods Approaches, Techniques, Procedures, Strategies, Methods, Techniques
Data Information, Statistics, Figures, Evidence, Data, Information
Findings Results, Conclusions, Discoveries, Outcomes, Findings, Results
Analyze Examine, Investigate, Scrutinize, Evaluate, Assess, Analyze, Examine
Interpret Explain, Understand, Decipher, Make sense of, Interpret, Explain
Support Endorse, Advocate, Champion, Uphold, Support, Back
Argue Assert, Contend, Maintain, Dispute, Argue, Contend
Contrast Differentiate, Discriminate, Distinguish, Compare and Contrast, Contrast,
Differentiate
Compare Similarities, Parallels, Analogies, Similarities, Compare, Contrast
However Nevertheless, Nonetheless, Notwithstanding, Conversely, However, Nevertheless
Although Even though, Despite, In spite of, Whereas, Although, Despite
Therefore Consequently, As a result, Thus, Hence, Therefore, Consequently
Furthermore Moreover, Additionally, In addition, Besides, Furthermore, Moreover
In conclusion To summarize, In summary, To conclude, Finally, In conclusion, To summarize
Vocabulary Words for IELTS List 1
Here is the first list of IELTS vocabulary words with their synonyms:
Blameless innocent

Crazy insane

Noted famous

Madness insanity

Arrogant haughty

Awful terrible

To disclaim to deny

To vary to differ

Accurate correct

Sacristy vestry

Dreadful terrible

Immoderate excessive

Cozy comfortable

Garbage can trashcan

Perception insight

Warranty guarantee

Immediate instant

Mind intellect

Vague indistinct

Understandable comprehensible
Indisputable undeniable

Terror fright

Highbrow intellectual

Cube dice

Remoted isolated

Well timed timely

Gratuity tip

Disadvantaged deprived

Abundant ample

To misconceive to misunderstand

Denims jeans

Connect join

Ecstasy joy

Magistrate justice of the peace

Eager keen

Wise knowing

Crusade campaign

To establish to set up

Neutral impartial

Vicious ferocious

Interplay interaction

To desert to abandon

Touchdown landing

Oblique indirect

To accomplish to achieve

Hashish cannabis

To close to shut

Defective faulty

Mischievous impish

Dormant inactive

Idle lazy

Turbulent blustering

To disclose to reveal
Dally loiter

Isolated lonely

Missing lost

Drab dull

Fortunate lucky

Hearsay rumor

Mendacity lying

Superb magnificent

Leading main

Chiefly mainly

Aggressive militant

Noon midday

Vague indistinct

Misfortune mishap

Misread misinterpret

Deceptive misleading

Lacking missing

Jealous envious

Doubt mistrust

Wrong mistaken

Away absent

To notify to inform

Mannequin model

Dicey risky

Empty drain

Misery distress

Impartial neutral

Impartial neutral

To behave to act

Bendy flexible

Extra additional

Vocabulary List for IELTS 2

Here is the second list of IELTS vocabulary words with their synonyms:
To administer to manage

Murderer assassin

To maintain to preserve

Mediocre fair

Aromatic fragrant

Dispute debate

Ambitious aspiring

To foretell to predict

To ignore to disregard

Virtue advantage

To cope to manage

Appreciable considerable

Disagreeable unpleasant

Rubbish nonsense

To bear on sth. to affect

Lousy awful

To consult to refer to

Cranky cross

Mackintosh waterproof coat

Pocket book notebook

Middleman intermediary

Paper money notes

Infamous notorious

Mirth fun

Selection choice

To quake to tremble

Today nowadays

Hate loathe

Mean unkind

Contaminate defile

Impediment obstacle

Construction (lit.) interpretation

Hostile antagonistic
To function to operate

Apparent obvious

Comfort consolation

Unstated unspoken

Enormous huge, immense

Sincere honest

Imperfect faulty

Obsolete out of date

Above overhead

Total entire,

Twosome pair

Especially particularly

Monotonous boring

To hurry to rush

Ardor passion

Gut intestine

Identical duplicate

Immodest conceited

Untrue unfaithful

Achieve accomplish

To annoy to irritate, to bother

Awkward clumsy

Completely totally

To elevate to raise, to promote

Insolvent bankrupt

To rue to regret

Essential fundamental

Peaceable peaceful

Nightfall dusk

Handsome good

Stupid dense

Zenith peak

Vacant empty
Fragrance perfume

Maybe perhaps, possibly

Aid help, assist

Bad (not good) poor, naughty

Magician conjurer

Unfortunate unlucky

Gravestone headstone

Housebreaking burglary

To grab to seize

Refrain chorus

To disappear to vanish

Painting portray

Adjourn postpone

Instructions directions

Momentous powerful

Priority precedence

Stationary fixed

Praise compliment

Insufferable unbearable

Previous preceding

Exactly precisely

Mistrust distrust

Early premature

Untimely premature

Antagonize provoke

Citation quotation

Naughty disobedient

Cheesy corny, tacky

Huge vast

Hole gap

Magnify expand

Lethal deadly

Immune exempt
Mourn grieve

Ban forbid

Infrequent rare

Spontaneous automatic

To cite to quote

Uncooked raw

Arrive reach, come

Dark dismal

Unlawful illegal

Knowingly deliberately

Moderately reasonably

Insurgent rebel

Uprising rebellion

Clerk receptionist

Miserable depressing

Curative healing

Equity fairness

Immature inexperienced

Artful crafty

Practically virtually

Conscious aware

To arrive to reach

Apparent evident

Crook criminal

Unvoiced voiceless
IELTS Vocabulary Lists
Vocabulary Words for IELTS List 3
Here is the third list of IELTS vocabulary words with their synonyms:
Negligent inattentive

To differentiate to distinguish

Inferior substandard

Win succeed

Hold grasp

To nominate to appoint
To near to approach

To impact to affect

Charter constitution

Eccentric unusual

Consecutive successive

Morose sullen

Disagree differ

Invoice bill

To withstand to resist

Insupportable intolerable

Meeting assembly

To convey to communicate

To denationalize to privatize

Abstract summary

Attractive appealing

Illiberal intolerant

To overhaul to overtake

Anyway besides

To respond to reply

Precis summary

Dry arid

To minimize to play down

Satisfied convinced

Vain useless

To conform to comply

Conflict clash

Twister tornado

To float to drift

Instinct intuition

To admit to confess

To intensify to heighten

Intriguing fascinating

Moderate lenient
Minor lesser

To infect to contaminate

To vacuum to hoover

Removable detachable

Sundown sunset

Joy delight

Encourage support

Class lesson, course

To vanquish to conquer

Turmoil disturbance

To transform to convert

To deprave to corrupt

To chop to cut

To diminish to decrease

To involve to entail

To magnify to exaggerate

Constancy fidelity

Ornament decoration

Diminish curtail

Nugatory worthless

Revolting disgusting

Torpid lethargic

Prompt immediate

To operate to function

Vast huge

To inspect to examine

To collect to gather

Impetuous reckless

To receive to get

Beneficent generous

Nameless anonymous

To confuse to mix up

Overseas abroad
To deduce to infer

High elevated

Convalesce recover

Outside external

To renounce to give up

More and more increasingly

To grouse to grumble

To assure to guarantee

Advocate support

Coiffure hairstyle

Forehead brow

Discount reduction

To appear to seem

Except apart from

To survive to outlive

Migrant drifting

Dead lifeless

Notwithstanding however

A native a local

To visualize to imagine

Informal casual

To begin to start

Infuriate enrage

Animated lively

Chorus refrain

Necessary essential

Provided if

Remorse regret

Domesticate cultivate

Steady regular

Testament testimony

If whether

Applicable relevant
Difficult hard

Trustworthy reliable

Mend repair

Moral ethical

Nobility the aristocracy

Repute reputation

Abbreviate condense

Unhurt unharmed

Imperative crucial

Dilute weaken, thin

Prosperous affluent

To fabricate to manufacture

Reasonable fair

Idler loafer

Mandatory required

Suppress restrain

Dossier file

Lucid clear

Complete total

Diverse distinct

Backside behind, bottom

To answer to reply

Home domestic

Matters things

Correct right

Brow forehead

Remainder the rest

Object thing

Hermetic airtight

To learn to memorize

Considerate thoughtful

Considerate thoughtful

Urgent important
Inconsiderate thoughtless

Silly foolish

IELTS Words with Meaning List 4

Here is the fourth list of IELTS vocabulary words with their synonyms:
Words Meanings

To evaluate to assess

Substantially considerably

Dangerous unsafe

Hall corridor

French dressing vinaigrette

To explode to blow up

To collapse to break down

To accumulate to build up

Livid furious

Remark comment

Vibrate tremble

Inflexible rigid

To select to choose

Spotlight highlight

To illuminate to clarify; to light up

Disaster catastrophe

To encounter to come across

To emphasize to stress

Innocent harmless

Undeniable indisputable

Humiliate embarrass

Beautiful attractive

To impeach to question

Bloodless cold

Hard tough

Dubious doubtful

Reliable dependable

Material fabric
Infantile childish

To imagine to suppose, to assume

Clever intelligent

Deliberately intentionally

Last final

Brave courageous

Winery vineyard