Sure, here's a list of vocabulary words commonly encountered in the IELTS exam, categorized by topic:
1. **Education**
- Academic: about education and scholarship.
- Curriculum: the subjects comprising a course of study in a school or college.
- Tutorial: a period of study with a tutor involving one student or a small group.
- Syllabus: an outline of the subjects in a course of study or teaching.
- Lecture: an educational talk to an audience, especially to students in a university or college.
2. **Technology**
- Innovation: the introduction of new ideas, methods, or products.
- Digital: relating to or using computer technology.
- Cybersecurity: the protection of computer systems and networks from
theft or damage to their hardware, software, or electronic data.
- Wireless: telecommunications in which electromagnetic waves carry the signal between communicating devices.
- Augmented Reality (AR): a technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a user's view of the real world.
3. **Environment**
- Sustainability: the ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level.
- Renewable energy: energy from a source that is not depleted when used, such as wind or solar power.
- Ecosystem: a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
- Climate change: a change in global or regional climate patterns.
- Conservation: the preservation, protection, or restoration of the natural environment and wildlife.
4. **Health**
- Pandemic: prevalent over a whole country or the world.
- Immunization: making a person or animal immune to infection, typically by inoculation.
- Epidemic: a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.
- Vaccination: treatment with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease.
- Quarantine: a state, period, or place of isolation in which people or animals that have arrived from elsewhere or been exposed to infectious or contagious disease are placed.
5. **Work**
- Employment: the condition of having paid work.
- Freelancing: working on different jobs for short periods, without being employed by a particular company.
- Entrepreneur: a person who sets up a business or businesses, taking on financial risks in the hope of profit.
- Remote work: working from a location other than the employer's place of business, often facilitated by technology.
- Job market: the availability of employment opportunities in a particular area or field.
6. **Society**
- Diversity: the state of being diverse; variety.
- Inequality: the unfair situation in society when some people have more opportunities, money, etc. than others.
- Discrimination: the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.
- Multiculturalism: the presence of, or support for the presence of, several distinct cultural or ethnic groups within a society.
- Globalization: the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.
7. **Travel and Tourism**
- Destination: the place to which someone or something is going or being sent.
- Tourism: the commercial organization and operation of vacations and visits to places of interest.
- Accommodation: a room, group of rooms, or building where someone may live or stay.
- Sightseeing: the activity of visiting places of interest in a particular location.
- Hospitality: the friendly and generous reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers.
These words cover a broad range of topics that you might encounter in the IELTS exam. It's important to understand their meanings and usage in various contexts.
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