50 Must-Know Vocabulary Words for IELTS Academic

IELTS Reading and Writing passages draw heavily from a recurring set of academic topics: education, the environment, technology and society, health and lifestyle, and work and the economy. Building topic-specific vocabulary in these five areas covers a large share of what actually appears on test day.

Rather than memorising word lists in isolation, learn each word with its meaning and a natural example sentence — this is closer to how you'll actually need to use it in Writing Task 2 or recognise it while skimming a Reading passage.

This portal's Vocabulary section organises exactly this kind of topic-grouped word bank, with a category filter so you can focus on one topic area at a time and build up recognition gradually rather than all at once.