Name: 9 more alternative words that will help you sound more academic
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Transition words & phrases

In this video, we're goingto look at nine alternative words that will help you get to I'll span nine, and I've used the word alternative because thes air options that can be used to supplant some of the more simple words you regularly use, So using these alternatives is a great way to sound.

Both Maur academic and more formal in your isles, as always, will show you exactly how to use these words and announce context to curb the chances of you sounding robotic.

But please be proactive and check your dictionary as you practice your use of these words.

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The first couple of words I would like to look at our alternatives for good.

They're not exact synonyms, but in the realm of describing something that is beneficial, good is an adjective that commonly blankets all kinds of situations.

Using good on your examination, in my opinion, is a wasted opportunity to demonstrate your lexical resources to your examiner.

So, for example, in Eilts speaking part one, it is common for the Examiner to ask you about your present condition or endeavors or professional direction or hobbies or interests or just generally about your current situation and these air topics that very commonly encourage a person to use a simple word like Good.

So right there, you've got a great opportunity to impress your examiner from the beginning of the exam.

So to give you an example, if you are talking with your examiner about your profession, um, you might gravitate towards a phrase like I have a good job or my career has been good for several reasons.

And, um, some fitting alternatives could be rewarding.

Very easy way to replace that, the more simple vocabulary or satisfying.

So my career has been satisfying for several reasons, or my my time and Sydney has been good to my time in Sydney has been rewarding.

For example, if maybe you had a cue card that asked you to talk about the place that you live and this might be part of your your opening.

So my time in Sydney has been rewarding for the following reasons, and then you go on to talk about that these two words are also useful for reading task to so recently we saw this question.

Do you prefer to work for a larger small company?

And there were variations that were reported.

Some of them said, Do you agree or disagree?

Um, so when you're sharing your, uh, conclusion sentence in the supporting paragraphs, you might write something like, It is for this reason that I feel working for a large company is better than working for a small company, and that's fine.

But if you find that you're using words like the comparative of good, better regularly, you might feel like you're repeating yourself.

So a nice alternative for this wording would be a word like rewarding eso.

It is, for this reason, I feel worked for a large company is certain.

More rewarding than working for a small company or more satisfying than working for a small company.

Okay, it's those air to very easy alternatives for good to get us started.

Today is merit and Merit is a noun that is used to refer to something that holds value.

It is commonly used to describe something that has a certain integrity to it or logical backing.

So it's a great word to use to describe a conclusion that you draw in in test two it, and this is because it goes beyond simply communicating something that is beneficial.

So, for example, in this writing test two we had some people believe that diet and exercise in a population are largely the responsibility of the government.

Others feel people should be responsible for their their own diets and their and their own levels of exercise.

This was a question that was seen just this'll ce passed, I believe, was the 19th of July, this one.

So you might use merit, for example, again in the conclusion section of one of your supporting paragraphs.

That's the argument that governments should be responsible for.

The diets on exercise levels of citizens is good, so we're describing the argument as being good and with mirrors, we might say.

Thus there is merit to the argument that governments just take out is good here that governments should be responsible for the diets and exercise level of citizens.

Okay, or if we were to change, go back to his good.

We might say, um, we might say, holds merit.

Okay, Where number four is optimal and optimal is not a direction and for good.

But it does describe something that is favorable or more precisely, most favorable.

It qualifies something that fulfills perfectly the criteria for another thing.

So I guess the closest true synonym for optimal that I can think of would be a word like perfect.

Okay, so it's just if if it feels a criteria exactly.

So to use the word optimal your for example, your examiner might ask you something, like at what time of the day are you?

Most productive thing might be perhaps a part.

If you guys were talking about your work or something like that and you might respond a good work time for me is in the morning.

It is when my mind is clearest and I can, um, And again, you don't want to fall into the trap you're describing.

So you might say something like my optimal work time and take up for me.

It is when my mind is clearest and I can't another time when we might use a word like Optimal is in writing.

This is not a recent question, but if you were given pine shirts and they were comparing the diets of older men and revealing varying states of health, so maybe pie chart one showed balances of protein, fat and carbohydrates and that thes balances were were unhealthy on then.

Pie Chart two shows a more, more healthy balance of the of these different items, so we might describe the second picture it this way.

The second pie chart illustrates the most optimal waiting's of fat, carbohydrates and protein for men aged 50 and older and the S.

This would be replacing a word like best should be the superlative of good okay and often difficult to communicate.

Idea is that of the rate at which something happens.

Candidates often incorrectly use words like faster and slower when alternatives like accelerate or retarded would be more fitting and more academic sounding.

Accelerate is a word that obviously refers to an item that increases in speed or pace.

It's an easy word to use in place of more simple vocabulary, like fast or faster or quick, and it adds a bit of decoration to your language.

So, for example, on your speaking, you, if you're talking about your education, you might gravitate towards the wording like this.

The clubs I joined at university helped me study faster when you could say something like the clubs I joined at university accelerated my studies.

Okay, and again, this this sort of use you're going to have to practice quite a bit Before you get into your examination, you want to be sure that that you are able to use it quite naturally and that it's it's not forced.

So be sure to do lots of practice with your dictionary in hand to make sure that you're using these words correctly.

Perhaps careers and high tech are typically quick in my hometown, as many young people engaged in turn ships at the nearby tech park.

So here we're just we're just trying to say that we're from a place that has a tech park nearby, and thus people are able to more quickly get into tech related careers because they have they have this facility so so close to where they live.

So another way to word this would be a cruise and high tech are typically accelerated.

Just describing that they moved more quickly than people that are trying to produce high tech careers in other cities that do not have the facilities of a tech parked close by.

Writing task one, uh, so accelerated is a great word to have in your arsenal.

If you're reading the academic, often you'll see grafts that show data that is, it gets faster or increases exponentially, and you want to be able to describe this appropriately in your response.

Between 2000 to 2004 growth of laptops sails accelerated.

Number six Returned is a verb that describes something that slows.

Another thing, however, it is a word that isn't regularly used in spoken English outside of an academic setting.

So I advise you to avoid using it in your speaking, unless you are at a much higher band because it could sound forced or robotic if used by someone who's speaking.

Isn't all that refined for those of you to hire men that want to give it a try.

So in speaking, for example, you might again use it to talk about something related to your studies.

So, for example, inadequate language skills were what most retarded.

My progress at the University of Calgary uh, return, however, is a great word to use in your writing.

Regardless of your band, it's much more commonly seen in English writing than it is in speaking.

It's very academic sounding, and it add some color to an essay when it's used correctly.

So, for example, this writing to ask you a question, young people learn Maur and accelerated speed through the use of technology.

Our example might say something like this.

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