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Course: YES IELTS Glossary of Terms (Glossary)
Glossary: YES-IELTS Glossary of Terms
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less common lexical itemThis is similar to less common vocabulary. Lexical items include not only words, but also parts of words, phrasal verbs, sayings, collocations, idioms, and expressions. |
less common vocabularyLess common vocabulary includes using such items as idioms and expressions. You can develop your “less common” vocabulary by reading widely in English. IELTS-Simon has a short but good post about this here: http://ielts-simon.com/ielts-help-and-english-pr/2011/06/ielts-advice-less-common-vocabulary.html |
lexical featuresLexical features include collocations, writing style, idioms, word form, and spelling. |
LRLexical Resource One of the four band descriptors for IELTS writing. |