Mind - IELTS lexical resource
IELTS vocabulary and collocations for family and growth topics. These could be useful for related letters, essays or even speaking exam topics.
Vocabulary
- Consequence
- Imagination
- Creativity
- Optimist
- Outlook
- Knowledge
- Fond
- Memory
- Cognitive: Related to an intellectual activity such as thinking, learning, understanding, reasoning etc.
- Mental
- Attitude
Action
- Anticipate: To expect/foresee/predict something
- Comprehend: To understand/grasph/realize
- Envisage: Form a mental picture
- Recall
- Appreciate
- Conceive: Believe/realize/accept/create. Se conceived the idea for a book when..., He was unable to conceive that he could be wrong.
- Infer: To deduce something through reasoning. He can infer that...
- Master
- Develop
- Imitate
- Visualise
- Reminisce: To think about pleasant past experiences
- Insight
- Realist
- Distinguish
- Evolve
State
- Maturity: Being sensible like an adult or being fully-grown
- Immature
- Independent
- Irresponsible
Quality
- Clumsy
- Rebellious
- Abstract: An idea/thought E.g. Being able to put abstract ideas into words.
- Sophisticated: Great knowledge/experience/high degree of complexity
- Spontaneous: Acts on impulse without it being planned ahead
Social
- Peers: Your peers are someone with the same age, type of job, status and/or social class as you.
- Friendship
Collocations//TODO: paraphrase
- Throw a tantrum
- Bear n mind
- Broaden the mind
- Have something in mind
- Have somthing on your mind
- It slipped my mind
- Keep an open mind
- My mind went blank
- Put your mind at ease
Health
- Anxiety: Concern/fear
- Depression
- Stroke
- Therapy
- Headaches
- Psychiatry: Branch of medicine that studies, diagnoses and treats mental illness.
- Insomnia: Unable to sleep
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