IELTS Root Course
Pro60 high-yield roots behind Band 7+ IELTS vocabulary. Build the lexical resource examiners reward.
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IELTS rewards lexical resource — the range and precision of your vocabulary, and your ability to paraphrase. That vocabulary is not random: most Band 7+ words are built from a compact set of Latin and Greek roots. Sustain, maintain, and tenable are one root wearing three disguises.
This course covers the 60 roots with the highest IELTS-word density in our database, organized into 12 themed units. Every lesson teaches one root through its real IELTS words — the topic and argument vocabulary of Writing Task 2, Academic Reading, and Speaking Part 3 — and builds root-based synonym clusters you can paraphrase with. Each lesson ends with a quiz that retries your misses until you get everything right, and every unit closes with a review that contrasts easily-confused roots.
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Course outline
Unit 1Place & Build
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The roots that set things up: st (stand), pos (put), sit (site), form (shape), tain (hold). Establish a position, sustain an argument, transform a system — the scaffolding of every Task 2 essay.
Unit 2Make & Cause
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How things get made and driven: fac (make), gen (produce), act (do), man (hand), mod (measure, manner). Factors, generate, manufacture, modify — the vocabulary of cause and effect.
Unit 3Say & Name
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The vocabulary of communication: dic (say), log (word, study), nomin (name), sign (mark), script (write). Indicate, logical, nominate, significant, prescribe — how ideas get stated and recorded.
Unit 4See & Select
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Perceiving and choosing: vis (see), sp (look), lect (choose, read), part (part, share), ali (other). Evident, perspective, select, participate, alternative — weighing options in an argument.
Unit 5Come & Go
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Motion and process: ced (go, yield), ven (come), it (go), gress (step), mov (move). Proceed, prevent, transit, progress, remove — trends and processes in Academic Reading.
Unit 6Carry & Send
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Transport and transfer: fer (carry), port (carry), miss (send), tra (pull, drag), car (run, cart). Transfer, transport, transmit, extract, career — moving people, goods and information.
Unit 7Turn & Fold
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Change of direction: vers (turn), tort (twist), plic (fold), circ (circle), sequ (follow). Reverse, distort, complex, circumstance, consequence — how situations turn and follow on.
Unit 8Take, Give & Lead
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Holding and directing: cap (take), dit (give), serv (keep, serve), duc (lead), ject (throw). Capacity, tradition, conserve, conduct, project — agency and control in argument.
Unit 9Stretch, Hang & Bind
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Tension and closure: tend (stretch), pend (hang, weigh), clud (close), bar (bar), lig (bind). Extend, depend, conclude, barrier, obligation — how factors connect and constrain.
Unit 10Life & Society
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People and worth: viv (live), spir (breathe), medi (middle), dom (house, master), val (worth). Survive, inspire, media, domestic, evaluate — the social topics IELTS loves.
Unit 11Amount & Degree
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Measuring and comparing: minu (small, lessen), maj (greater), par (equal), sim (same, like), ple (fill). Diminish, majority, compare, similar, complement — the language of data and trends.
Unit 12Flow, Touch & End
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Movement and limits: flu (flow), tact (touch), pel (drive), fin (end, limit), vac (empty). Influence, contact, compel, define, vacant — forces, contact and boundaries in academic writing.