IELTS Writing - Academic Task 1 - Vocabulary

The following words and phrases will help you describe trends:

Nouns	a rise an increase a surge a growth a peak a fluctuation a variation a period of stability a plateau a fall a decrease a decline a dip
Verbs	to rise to increase to surge to grow to peak to skyrocket to fluctuate to vary to fall to decrease to decline to dip to dive to plunge
Phrases	to show an upward trend to show a downward trend to hit the highest point to hit the lowest point to reach a peak to show some fluctuation to fluctuate wildly to remain stable to remain static to remain unchanged to stay constant to reach a plateau to level off to flatten out the highest the lowest the second highest the third highest compared to compared with relative to
Adverbs	sharply suddenly rapidly abruptly dramatically significantly steadily considerably markedly slightly gently gradually wildly
Adjectives	sharp sudden rapid abrupt dramatic steep significant steady considerable marked slight gentle gradual

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List of Adjectives, Adverbs, Nouns and Verbs

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accurate accurately accurateness -- adj. - free from error. (antonym - inaccurate) agreeable agreeably agreement agree adj.- giving pleasure to someone (antonym - disagreeable) n. - a promise or contract made with someone v. - to say that one is willing amazing, amazed amazingly amazement amaze adj. - great surprise and wonder (antonym - unamazing) annoying, annoyed annoyingly annoyance annoy adj. - annoying - causing slight anger or irritation adj. - annoyed - rather angry n. - the things that annoys artistic artistically art -- adj. - having natural skills at drawing, painting, acting, etc. (antonym - unartistic) associate -- association associate adj. - joined / part of (antonym - disassociate) n. - group, organization v. - to join together / to act together with or deal with somebody attractive attractively attractiveness attract adj.- pretty /pleasing / interesting (antonym - unattractive) b behaved -- behaviour behave adj. - acting in a specific way. used to form compound adjectives e.g. well-behaved (antonym - misbehaved) n. - way of acting / way of treating others v. - to act in a specified way believable believably belief believe adj. - that can be believed(antonym - unbelievable) n. - the feeling that something is real or true v. - to feel sure of the truth of something beneficial beneficially beneficiary benefit adj. - having a helpful or useful effect (antonym - n. - being kind, friendly and helpful v. - profit / gain / future good bold boldly boldness -- adj. - confident and brave (antonym - cowardly) c casual casually casualness -- adj. - happening by chance / not serious (antonym - formal) clear clearly clear adj. - free from cloud / without , error, defect or drawback (antonym - unclear) comfortable comfortably comfort comfort adj. - enjoyable / free from pain (antonym- adj. uncomfortable / antonym - noun discomfort) v. - to make someone (or yourself) happy convenient conveniently convenience -- adj. - easy / handy / useful (antonym - inconvenient) commercial commercially commerce -- adj. - to make money / related to business practices and activities (antonym - noncommercial) creative creatively creation create adj. - able to make or produce things(antonym - uncreative) critical critically criticism criticize adj. - looking for faults or problems (antonym - uncritical) d dated dateless datedness date adj. - old fashion, not modern (antonym - modern) v. - to write the date / to meet a person of the opposite sex decided decidedly decision decide adj. - clear, definite (antonym - undecided) n. - the conclusion reached / outcome / result / judgment v. - to settle an argument or dispute / to choose / to make up one's mind decisive decisively decisiveness  -- adj. - showing the ability to decide quickly (antonym - indecisive) deliberate deliberately -- -- adj. - done on purpose (antonym - undeliberate) different differently -- -- adj. - unusual, uncommon (antonym - same) --   --  discussion discuss  n. - a talk v. - to talk or write about something disputable disputably dispute dispute adj. - something that can be questioned or argued about (antonym - indisputable) n. - argument v. - to argue / to debate distracted distractedly distraction distract adj. - unable to concentrate properly (antonym - undistracted ) n. - a noise, sound, sight, etc. which prevents concentration e ethical ethically ethic -- adj. - morally correct (plural ethics) antonym - unethical exact exactly exactness exact adj. - strictly correct (antonym - inexact) extraordinary extraordinarily -- -- adj. - above the usual (antonym - normal, usual, common f fashionable fashionably fashion fashion adj. - trendy / stylish (antonym- unfashionable) v - to make fascinated / fascinating  -- fascination fascinate adj. - attracted and delighted by creating interest and curiosity (antonym - uncritical) flexible flexibly flexibility flex adj. - the ability to bend (antonym - inflexible) v. - to tighten, usually muscles in the human body forgivable -- forgiveness forgive adj. - can be forgiven (antonym - unforgivable) v. - to stop blaming or stop resenting someone for something he or she has done fortunate fortunately fortune -- adj. - lucky (antonym - unfortunate) friendly friendlily friendliness -- adj. - kind, affectionate (antonym - unfriendly) g h happy happily happiness -- adj. - content, glad (adj. - unhappy) n. - joy harmonious harmoniously harmony harmonize adj. - agreeable, friendly (antonym - disharmonious) hidden  -- -- hide adj. - kept out of sight / unseen (antonym -visible ) heightened height heighten adj. - make higher / intensify (antonym -lowered ) honest honestly honesty -- adj - frank, open, truthful (antonym - dishonest) honourable honourably honour honour adj. - ethical, fair, moral, principled (antonym - dishonourable) n. - personal respect v. - to respect highly / accept or pay a debt i imaginable / imaginary imaginably imagination imagine adj. - imaginable - likely, possible (antonym - unimaginable) adj. - imaginary - existing only in the mind (antonym - unimaginary) n. - the ability to create images of things that are not present v. imagine - to create a picture in the mind important importantly importance -- adj. - serious (antonym - unimportant) improvable -- improvement improve adj. - can be made better (antonym - un improvable) n. - something that adds to the value of something inspirational inspirationally inspiration inspire adj. - (antonym - uninspired) intrigued / intriguing intriguingly intrigue intrigue adj. - (antonym - un intrigued) intelligent intelligently intelligence -- adj - cleaver, smart (antonym - unintelligent) inventive inventively invention invent adj. - (antonym - uninventive) irritable irritably irritant / irritation irritate adj. - easily annoyed n. - irritant - person or thing causing irritation n. - irritation - annoyance, slight pain j justified justifiable justification justify adj - morally correct (antonym - unjustified) v - to show the rightness or justice of something k l legal legally legality legalize adj. - allowed by law (antonym - illegal) legible legibly legibility -- adj. - easily read (antonym - illegible) legitimate legitimately legitimacy legitimize adj. - lawful, regular / born in wedlock (antonym - illegitimate) liberal liberally liberal liberalize adj. - generous / tolerant / unrestricted amount of something (antonym - illiberal) n. - a person who has liberal ideas (usually about freedom from control) v. - to free from political or moral restrictions likely likely likelihood like adj. - probably (antonym - unlikely) adv, - very probable n. - probability v. - similar to / to be fond of / having some or all of the qualities or features of logical logically logic -- adj. - clear, rational, reasonable (antonym - illogical) n. - art or philosophy of reasoning lucky luckily luck -- adj. - fortunately (antonym - unlucky) m mature maturely maturity mature adj. - ripe like a fruit / completely developed like an adult (antonym - immature) moral morally morality moralize adj. - right and just (antonym - immoral) v. - to talk in a self-righteous way about what is right or wrong mortal mortally mortality -- adj. - human / deadly or fatal (antonym immortal - live forever) n noticeable noticeably notice notice adj. - attracting attention / easily seen (antonym - unnoticeable) n. - a sign, advertisement or warning v. - to see something o offensive offensively offensiveness offend adj. - upsetting or annoying (antonym -inoffensive) ordinary ordinarily -- -- adj. common, usual, not strange (antonym - unordinary) p patient patiently patience -- adj. - ability to accept delay (antonym - impatient) perfect perfect perfection perfect adj. - without error or flaw (antonym - imperfect) v. - to make something without error or flaw performing -- performance perform adj. - doing or acting / doing as expected (antonym - unperforming) n. - act, play, feat, achievement v. - to do something / to act a part in a play polite politely politeness -- adj. - having or showing good manners (antonym - impolite) possible possibly possibility -- adj. - something that can be done (antonym - impossible) powerful powerfully power power adj. - very strong / having great influence (antonym - powerless) n. - energy v. - the ability to do something preventable -- prevention prevent adj. - that which can be avoided, stopped or hindered (antonym - unpreventable) v. - to stop or hinder probable probably probability -- adj. - likely (antonym - improbable) professional professionally professionalism -- adj. - a qualified worker who does something to a high standard (antonym - unprofessional) protective protectively protection protect adj. - trying or intended to protect n. - defense / safety v. - to keep safe from harm, injury, hurt, etc. / guard q r rational rationally rationale / rationality rationalize adj. - reasonable, sensible (antonym - (irrational) v. - justify by reasoning recommended / recommending -- recommendation recommend adj. - (antonym - unrecommended) regular regularly regularity -- adj. - normal, usual, habitual (antonym - irregular) relevant relevantly relevance -- adj. - related to the matter under discussion (antonym - irrelevant) reliable reliability reliability rely adj. - dependable (antonym - unreliable) religious religiously religiousness -- adj. - pious / conscientious / holy (antonym - unreligious - not religious / irreligious -   replaceable -- replacement replace adj. - can be replaced (antonym - irreplaceable)  representative -- representative represent adj. - typical (unrepresentative) n. - one chosen to stand for a group v. - to symbolize / to stand for respectful respectable respectability respect adj. - showing consideration or politeness (antonym - disrespectful) n. - worthy of respect v. - to look up to / show consideration for responsible responsibly responsibility -- adj. - legally or morally obliged (antonym - irresponsible)  reversible reversibility reverse reverse adj. - can be changed back to its original condition (antonym - irreversible)  n. - the opposite romantic romantically romantic romanticize adj. - of or dealing with love / loving (antonym - unromantic)  n. - visionary / a sentimental person s satisfactory satisfactorily satisfaction satisfy adj. - acceptable / fair / good enough (antonym - unsatisfactory)  n. - pleasure / pride / sense of fulfilment v. - to please / to come up to expectations significant significantly significance signify adj. - important / meaningful (antonym - insignificant) v. - to be a sign of soluble -- solubility solution adj. - can be dissolved in water (antonym - insoluble)  n. - the answer to a problem / the liquid in which something is dissolved speedy speedily speed speed adj. - quickly (antonym - slowly) n. - swiftness / rate of progress v. - to move quickly successful successfully success succeed adj. - profitable / rewarding / fortunate (antonym - unsuccessful) n. - favourable outcome v. - turn out satisfactorily symbolic symbolically symbol symbolize adj. - using something as a symbol (antonym - unsymbolic) n. - an image, object, etc. used to represent something v. - to be a representation of something or someone t talkative -- talk / talkativeness talk adj. - (antonym - untalkative) tasteful tastefully tastefulness taste adj. - in a good style / to one's liking (antonym - distasteful)  v. - to eat a small amount of something taught / teaching -- teacher teach adj. - instructed (antonym - unteachable) thrilled / thrilling -- thrill thrill adj. - excited (antonym -unexcited ) u v valid -- validity validate adj. - genuine / good / true / accurate (antonym - invalid) adv. - lawfulness / legality / right v. - to make legally true / to make something logical or justifiable