Time - IELTS lexical resource
IELTS vocabulary and collocations for time topics. These could be useful for related letters, essays or even speaking exam topics. At the end, there is also a spelling test. Please note that US spelling is used throughout.
Vocabulary
Time
- Consecutive
- Formerly
- Previously
- Subsequently
- Penultimate
- Periodic
- Phase
- Coincide
- Successive
- Intermittent
- Concurrent
- Millennium/Millennia
- Century
- Decade
- Chronological
- Imminent: Something unpleasant that will happen soon. E.g. They were in imminent danger of being robbed.
- Punctual
- Time-consuming
- Nostalgic
History
- Historical
- Prehistoric
- Prior to
- Predate: Happened before something else
- Archive
- Artefact
- Excavate
- Heritage
- Primitive
- Pioneer: The person to do something
- Renaissance
- Archeologist
- Evidence
- Excavation
- The Middle Ages
- Timeline
- Ancient
- Erode: A surface that is gradually destroyed over time E.g. The relic gradually eroded away.
Collocations/Idioms/Phrases
- To lose track of time
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