PTE Vocabulary plays a major role in the PTE exam, yet many students undervalue its importance.
Are you looking to increase your vocabulary list?
If yes, keep reading because if you want to do well at the PTE exam, you will need to demonstrate that you know a wide range of vocabulary.
You will notice that having a wide range of vocabulary leads to:
- a better understanding when listening to English conversations,
- being a better speaker,
- improving your score in PTE’s Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing.
Here is what you'll get in this article exclusively related to expanding your vocabulary if you read it to the end:
- a very effective method to expand your vocabulary
- a list of vocabulary useful for PTE
- a list of words to add in your day to day conversations
How To Learn New Vocabulary Helpful For PTE
Write Down
It would help to take a note pad (and a pen) to write new words down with their meaning or their translation.
Writing down vocabulary is incredibly powerful in many aspects.
Writing things down enables a higher level of thinking, and therefore, more focused action.
Repetition Is Key
Learning new vocabulary doesn't necessarily mean that you will be able to use it directly in your day to day conversations.
It is important to note that you'll only be able to use a word naturally after hearing multiple times in multiple situations.
An excellent way to speed up the process of learning vocabulary is to repeat the new words you wrote down daily, either in the morning or in the afternoon.
How To Be More Efficient When Learning New Vocabulary
First, why efficient?
When you study to take an exam, you need to focus your training to reach your best potential in the imparted time. Otherwise, you may work a lot to accomplish very little.
You usually find yourself confronted with two situations to learn new terms:
For a word you hear or read for the first time
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Look for its meaning.
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Ask yourself how often you would use it in your native tongue.
Not often?
It would help if you kept it in another note pad, or at the end of the same one. You can always come back to it later.
Often?
Try to find this word in different sentences to know how you can use it in various situations.
- Write down in your pad the word with its translation. Then select a few expressions with this term and note them down, possibly with different colors depending on the importance you give them.
In PTE Success, you'll find a built-in dictionary in which you can directly add the words you didn't understand in any of our questions.
Regarding the vocabulary you overuse
- When you speak or practice our PTE questions, try to make the effort of noticing words you often use and write them down.
- Try to find various synonyms and write them next to it in a column. If you do that, you will notice that your vocabulary knowledge improves. Also, on PTE day, you will find yourself looking for new ways to say something several times; hence you will not have to lose time to make this effort since you already did it during your training.
- Next, even if you already know several synonyms, your goal consists in enhancing your vocabulary capacity, so look for new ones over time. The more, the merrier!
- Last but not least, wonder what the antonyms of these words are. You don't know the meaning of antonyms? Google it! It is a good starting point.
Isn’t it a bit going over and beyond?
Not at all, since vocabulary is essential in every day of your life. Following this approach will help you remember longer and put this new vocabulary into use in different situations.
Instead of memorising only one term, you now taught yourself several more in one search. You efficiently managed your time!
Websites For Better Vocabulary
Linguee
It is an English Dictionary and Translation Search with 1,000,000,000 example sentences from human translators. You can download Linguee here to expand your vocabulary.
Word Of The Day
Word Of The Day will help you find new words on a topic of your choice. Download Word of the Day here to learn new words.
Wiktionary
If you look for some inspiration to investigate new words, wiktionary proposes “frequency lists” , which rank the most recurring vocable in almost every language with English at the top. Download Wiktionary: Frequency lists here to investigate new words
Apps/Games For Better Vocabulary
Studying new vocabulary for your PTE test doesn't have to be so tedious. Try to have some fun with it! In this case, you can:
- Download one of the many apps to play word games, scrabble will help you learn new vocabulary.
- Spend some time with writing online games, such as Elegy for a Dead World if you like challenges.
- If you are more of an online multiplayer kind of gamer, you can go for Storium.
Even if you need to study and train rigorously, it is crucial to find an entertaining approach.
Learn Our List Of Synonyms For A Better Vocabulary
Learning Synonyms words is a fundamental and significant part of learning for the PTE Exam.
- Accurate – correct
- Achieve – accomplish
- Active – energetic
- Adamant – firm
- Add – increase
- Adequate – sufficient
- Aggressive – assertive
- Aid – help
- Always – forever
- Amateur – beginner
- Ambitious – aspiring
- Approve – accept
- Arrive – reach
- Authentic – genuine
- Awful – dreadful, atrocious
- Bashful – shy, timid
- Beautiful – pretty, attractive
- Before – prior, earlier
You can download our full list of 180 Useful Words to learn and build a list of vocabulary to use in your PTE Test.
Academic Collocation List
A collocation list is another tool that you should add to your arsenal. Let me begin by giving you a proper definition of this term.
In corpus linguistics, a collocation is a sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance.
That means that some combination of words will be more appropriate than others.
Using collocations can increase your vocabulary score because it shows the software that you have good knowledge of the English Language.
Some collocation examples
- Heavy rain
- Deep pockets
- Heavy traffic
- Deep trouble
You can download the full list of PTE Collocation of the Pearson Website.
Conclusion
It can easily take years to broaden your range of vocabulary. It doesn't have to be this way, however.
Remember that:
- learning new vocabulary is essential for the PTE Test.
- the methodology to discover and remember new words is effective.
- you should use websites and applications to speed up the process.
- you know where to find our synonyms.
- you know where to find our collocation list.
- pte success is very effective at boosting your score
Start applying what you learn today, and you'll improve your score in most sections of the PTE Test.
If you are interested to learn more about vocabulary, you can read this article about using vocabulary in an essay.
Did I miss out on anything? How do you learn more vocabulary?
