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First video in the Project Fancy, introducing to you a formal word spelt ABJECT! Before we discuss this word, if you haven’t looked at Project Fancy, please do ^^! In this video, we will try our best to know the word’s pronunciation, meaning, and implication in the IELTS test.
Video Instruction of the formal word ABJECT
Abject – Formal Word
Today first word is: “ABJECT”! This word’s meaning relates to many things, one of which is the degree of success or failure. That’s why I chose the word to be the first subject for us to “absorb” in the very first video of this Project Fancy.
Now, about the Pronunciation of the word,
there is not much that I could say except that please check the video. I do entail a very short and small extract in which you can find both American and British pronunciation. But please feel free to check their meaning on other dictionary:
_Longman: https://www.ldoceonline.com/
_Cambridge: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/
As for the meaning of Abject,
this formal word has two meaning, one of which is usually used (and I actually intend to advise you to learn only that meaning) as “an intensifier”. In a nutshell, you can use “abject” before any noun to EMPHASIZE the level, the degree of that noun! But please bear in mind that the NOUN you want to emphasize has to have “negative meaning”.
What do I mean by “negative”, well, please look at these example:
- Abject failure: “big” failure
- or Abject poverty: very very very poor…
- Abject inefficient: absolutely not effective at all!
Okay, let’s look at some examples:
- They live in abject poverty.
- This policy has turned out to be an abject failure
- When Margarett fell into abject depression days later, Shaw was prepared.
Now how to apply “abject” in the IELTS test
There are many situations to which I believe we can apply this word. But let’s consider these:
IELTS Writing Task 1 – Trend
(for those who haven’t known how to write it: https://bit.ly/ielts-writing-task1-trend ). When you see a subject is falling down to its record low. Instead of using the expression “reach its record low“, you can alternatively use “hit its abject low“.
IELTS Writing Task 2
- When dealing with Problem – Solution:
This can result in abject failure.
- Advantage – DIsadvantage:
This can cause abject (write a problem here).
In IELTS Speaking,
the potential situations are plenty. That said, it is advisable that you use this word in Part 3 since “Discussion” part requires an amount of formal vocabulary, more than Part 1 and 2.
Finally, that would be all you should remember about our first word “Abject”! Now, please don’t make ourselves experience any “abject failure” during the Project Fancy, will you! Before you leave, please try to write example and type them in the comments for me to check and for others to look as reference! P.S. You can turn on the Subtitle (automatic one). It’s not 100% correct but I have checked; there is little error :P! Thanks for watching and please keep patient with the project and me.