Vocabulary Worksheet — Apply It

How to Use This Worksheet (এই ওয়ার্কশিট কীভাবে করবেন)

This is where you apply the vocabulary upgrade. Try each item before looking at the answer — write your version mentally or on paper, then click "Show a model answer" to compare. The models are just one good version; yours may be equally strong.

এখানে আপনি শব্দভান্ডার আপগ্রেড প্রয়োগ করবেন। উত্তর দেখার আগে নিজে চেষ্টা করুন। মডেলগুলো একটি ভালো সংস্করণ — আপনারটিও সমান ভালো হতে পারে।

Need the word banks first? Open the Vocabulary Upgrade page in another tab and use it as reference while you work.

A · Rewrite Each Sentence with Stronger Vocabulary

Upgrade two or three key words in each sentence, then check your work.

1
ORIGINAL"Solar power is good for the environment and it helps countries make electricity without using too much oil."
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"Solar power is highly beneficial for the environment and facilitates electricity generation without excessive reliance on fossil fuels."

Upgrades: good → beneficial, helps → facilitates, using too much oil → excessive reliance on fossil fuels.

2
ORIGINAL"The number of students studying abroad went up a lot in the last ten years."
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"The number of students studying abroad has risen substantially over the past decade."

Upgrades: went up a lot → risen substantially; "in the last ten years" → "over the past decade" (more formal register).

3
ORIGINAL"This chart shows that young people have more smartphones than old people."
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"This chart indicates that smartphone ownership declines steadily with age."

Upgrades: shows → indicates; a comparative restated as a trend, which is generally stronger for Describe Image.

4
ORIGINAL"Bad weather is a big problem for farmers because it makes crops die."
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"Adverse weather poses a significant challenge for farmers, since it can devastate crop yields."

Upgrades: bad → adverse, big → significant, makes crops die → devastate crop yields.

B · Fix the Broken Collocation

Each sentence contains one unnatural word combination — identify and fix it.

1 "The report made a strong impact on policy decisions across the region."
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"The report had a strong impact on policy decisions..." — "have an impact" is the fixed collocation, not "make an impact."

2 "Researchers did a survey of over five hundred participants."
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"Researchers conducted a survey of over five hundred participants." — "conduct a survey/study/experiment" is the standard academic collocation.

3 "The policy will make a positive difference to public health."
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Correct as written — "make a difference" is itself a fixed, natural collocation, unlike "make an impact."

4 "The findings raise several important questions for future research."
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Correct as written — "raise a question" is the standard collocation.

Self-Check Before You Submit

Run through this checklist on your own Write Essay or Summarize Written Text answers before your next practice test.

  • Did I upgrade at least two or three overused words (good, bad, big, very, thing)?
  • Did I use at least one fixed collocation naturally, rather than forcing an upgraded word in?
  • Did I avoid repeating the same upgraded word more than twice in one answer?
  • Does every upgraded sentence still sound natural when read aloud?
  • Did I double-check any confusable word pairs I used (affect/effect, economic/economical)?

Put it into practice: apply these upgrades in the Speaking & Writing practice test's Write Essay and Summarize Written Text tasks.