{"id":2332,"date":"2015-09-01T12:30:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T05:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humorous-knowledge.flywheelsites.com\/?p=2332"},"modified":"2024-01-19T11:55:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T11:55:09","slug":"ielts-synonyms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ieltsadvantage.com\/2015\/09\/01\/ielts-synonyms\/","title":{"rendered":"IELTS Synonyms (In 2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Introduction<\/h2>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" style=\"width:420px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_hxQ2uIwhUQ4\"><div id=\"lyte_hxQ2uIwhUQ4\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ieltsadvantage.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FhxQ2uIwhUQ4%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hxQ2uIwhUQ4\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ieltsadvantage.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FhxQ2uIwhUQ4%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"420\" height=\"295\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:420px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Synonyms are different words that have the same or nearly the same meaning, such as male and man or third-level education and university.<\/p>\n<p>Many IELTS teachers, myself included, stress the importance of using synonyms in your writing. Synonyms help us to vary our language and show the examiner that we have a wide-ranging vocabulary. However, synonyms are also very dangerous because, if used incorrectly, they can lower your mark for vocabulary, task response,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieltsadvantage.com\/2015\/04\/18\/difference-band-5-and-8-in-ielts-writing-task-2-band-scores\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0and coherence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article will look at some real essays that used synonyms incorrectly to show you how dangerous they can be.<\/p>\n<h2>Why use synonyms?<\/h2>\n<p>When we get an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieltsadvantage.com\/writing-task-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IELTS Writing Task<\/a>, there will be certain keywords in the question, and our writing would sound very repetitive if we wrote the same words repeatedly. So to make our writing sound better, we use synonyms.<\/p>\n<p>For example, if the question asked us, &#8216;Computers are increasingly used in education. Do you agree?&#8217; we would have to use the words &#8216;computers&#8217; and &#8216;education&#8217; many times in our answer. We could use the words &#8216;I.T.&#8217;, &#8216;laptops&#8217; or\u00a0 &#8216;iPads&#8217; instead of just repeating the word &#8216;computers&#8217; repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p>We should also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieltsadvantage.com\/2015\/03\/31\/paraphrase-ielts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">paraphrase<\/a> the question in our very first sentence when answering an IELTS Writing task; synonyms are one of the key ways of doing this. Click the link above for more information on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieltsadvantage.com\/2015\/03\/31\/paraphrase-ielts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">paraphrasing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we can use synonyms to show the examiner that we have a wide-ranging vocabulary. If you repeat the same keywords many times, it indicates to the examiner that you don&#8217;t know any other ways of expressing those words and that you have a narrow vocabulary.<\/p>\n<h2>What&#8217;s the danger?<\/h2>\n<p>The dangerous thing about synonyms is that people use them incorrectly or try too hard and force them into their essays.<\/p>\n<p>When using a synonym, we first need to think about the meaning. The meaning should be the same. I do not encourage students to use synonyms that mean &#8216;nearly the same&#8217; because it often leads to mistakes.<\/p>\n<h2>Example 1<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Question: It is important that young children are taught art, drama and music, alongside more traditional subjects like maths and science. Do you agree or disagree? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Paraphrase: It is important that young people are taught extracurricular activities, alongside serious subjects like mathematics, biology and chemistry.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This student has changed the following words using synonyms, but not all are correct:<\/p>\n<p><strong>young children &#8211; young people <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>art, drama and music- extracurricular activities <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>traditional subjects- serious subjects<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The problem that this student has is they are using what I call &#8216;loose synonyms&#8217;. These are words that don&#8217;t really mean the same as each other, and the result is that you are writing about something completely different from the question. This leads to you writing unrelated ideas and can lower your whole essay&#8217;s score.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, &#8216;young children&#8217; could mean people between the ages of around 1-10, but &#8216;young people&#8217; can mean anything from 1-30 years of age. The question is focusing on young children, and by using young people, you are talking about an irrelevant age group.<\/p>\n<p>Another example is &#8216;extracurricular activities&#8217;, which means things you do <strong>outside<\/strong> of school, whereas the question relates to <strong>school<\/strong> subjects. The person who wrote this answer mentioned &#8216;extracurricular activities&#8217; several times in the rest of her essay, which meant she got a much lower score because she was talking about irrelevant ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, &#8216;traditional&#8217; and &#8216;serious&#8217; are very loose synonyms; so loose I would not really recognise them as synonyms at all.<\/p>\n<p>The lesson to take away from this example is only use synonyms you know are 100% the same. <em><strong>If you are not sure they are 100% the same, don&#8217;t use them.<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Example 2<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Question: The growth in crime among teenagers can be attributed to an increase in the use of violent video games. <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>To what extent do you agree or disagree? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> Paraphrase: The rise of acts of violent in young ones are often viewed as being caused by the exposure to fierce audio-visual games.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This student has changed the following words:<\/p>\n<p><strong>crime- acts of violent <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>teenagers- young ones <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>violent- fierce <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>video games- audio-visual games<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These are all wrong and are typical of a student who feels like they <strong>must<\/strong> use synonyms and will use them at any cost, i.e. they are more worried about using synonyms than writing a clear and correct sentence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Crime&#8217; means all crime, and &#8216;acts of violence&#8217; is specifically violent crime. They have also used the wrong form of &#8216;violence&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Young ones&#8217; does not really mean teenagers and would never be used by a native speaker in an academic essay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Fierce&#8217; does not mean the same things as &#8216;violent&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Audio-visual&#8217; might sound like high-level vocabulary, but you would never refer to &#8216;video games&#8217; in this way.<\/p>\n<p>It would have been better for this student to have used simpler words and phrases or just copied the word. If you are not 100% sure about the grammar and meaning of the word, don&#8217;t try to force it. Repeating the word is better than forcing<em><strong>\u00a0an incorrect synonym into your essay.<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Example 3<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Question: Today people are travelling more than ever before. Why is this the case? What are the benefits of travelling for the traveller?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the question above, one of my students replaced the word &#8216;travelling&#8217; with &#8216;<strong>commuting<\/strong>&#8216;. She continued using the words &#8216;commuting&#8217; and &#8216;commute&#8217; throughout the essay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Commuting&#8217; means specifically travelling to and from work every day. The result was that her whole essay was full of irrelevant ideas.<\/p>\n<p>You should never take any chances with keywords from the question. <em><strong>If it is a keyword that is crucial to the meaning of the question and your answer as a whole, only change it if you are 100% certain the meaning is the same.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Alternatives to Synonyms<\/h2>\n<p>Instead of using synonyms, you can use the following things to vary your language:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Examples<\/li>\n<li>Definitions<\/li>\n<li>Change the form of the word<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t think of a good synonym, you can list an <strong>example<\/strong> or two. So in the question above about &#8216;computers&#8217;, it is perfectly acceptable to say &#8216;laptops and tablets&#8217;. Students use these exact things in class, so it is fine to write them. Like synonyms, ensure that the examples match the word 100%.<\/p>\n<p>You can also <strong>define the word<\/strong> if you can&#8217;t think of a synonym. So for our example above about travelling, you could say &#8216;people going from place to place&#8217;. This is obviously much longer than a simple synonym, but it is much easier sometimes to write about something in simple language than think of one complicated word.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, changing the form of the word or phrase is always acceptable. So instead of trying to think of a synonym for &#8216;violent video games&#8217; (which is very hard to do), you could say &#8216;video games that have violence&#8217;. All we have done is change the word from an adjective (violent) to a noun (violence).<\/p>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Only change a word if you are 100% sure the meanings are the same.<\/li>\n<li>Be aware of &#8216;loose synonyms&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>If you change it, the grammar must also be correct.<\/li>\n<li>Be particularly careful with keywords from the question.<\/li>\n<li>If you can&#8217;t think of a synonym, try one of the alternative methods.<\/li>\n<li>If in doubt, don&#8217;t change it. It is better to repeat the word and be correct than force a synonym and be wrong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope you found this article useful. If you have any questions or queries, join the conversation on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ieltsadvantage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information about IELTS Writing, click one of the links below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieltsadvantage.com\/writing-task-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IELTS Writing Task 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieltsadvantage.com\/writing-task-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IELTS Writing Task 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2335 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ieltsadvantage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IELTS-Synonyms-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IELTS Synonyms\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ieltsadvantage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IELTS-Synonyms-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ieltsadvantage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IELTS-Synonyms-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ieltsadvantage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IELTS-Synonyms-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ieltsadvantage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IELTS-Synonyms-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ieltsadvantage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IELTS-Synonyms.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction Watch this video on YouTube Synonyms are different words that have the same or nearly the same meaning, such as male and man or third-level education and university. 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