Erudite – Word Of The Day For IELTS

Erudite – Word Of The Day For IELTS Speaking And Writing

Erudite: (Adjective) /ˈerudaɪt/

Definition:

showing a lot of knowledge based on careful study

Synonyms: 

Knowledgeable, Literate, Scholarly

Example:

For IELTS Speaking:.
“The Cunning Man” is an intricate and erudite work.”
“Gregarious, erudite and energetic, Brezzo could never be accused of thinking in small, ordinary ways.”

For IELTS Writing:
“Accelerating violence and horror eventually hit maximum velocity and warp into nonsense, no matter how erudite the script.”

Exercise:

Choose the following words to fill in the blank: inevitable, contradict, displaced, ambiguous, random, paragraph, guideline, erudite, terminated, inspect. 

1. The newly hired secretary had her contract _______________ after she was discovered stealing money from the coffee fund
2. Before you begin painting, you should _______________ the walls to see if there are any holes that need to be filled.
3. Cuts to the health budget seem to _______________ the premier’s promise to improve health care in our province.
4. The ending of the movie was totally _______________. I guess we have to decide for ourselves what really happened.
5. My daughter has a computer program with a _______________ pet cat that she feeds and plays with.
6. You must follow the _______________ for essay writing to ensure your essay has the proper format.
7. Olympic athletes are subject to _______________ drug testing.
8. Your _______________ should have a good topic sentence.
9. Among themselves, ecclesiastics have become eminently sophisticated and ___________.
10. Hundreds of people and their homes were _______________ to make way for the new highway.

Answer keyS:

1. terminated
2. inspect
3. contradict
4. ambiguous
5. inevitable.
6. guidelines.
7. random.
8. paragraph.
9. erudite.
10. displaced.

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