IELTS / TOEFL Vocabulary: 10 Compound Words (closed)

IELTS / TOEFL Vocabulary: 10 Compound Words (closed)
English vocabulary offers writers a lot of variety. It allows us to join existing words to create new ones in the form of compounds.

🔹 There are three types of compound words:
✔ Open: head coach, ice cream, mobile phone, living room, fat free
✔ Hyphenated: blue-eyed, self-study, well-being, soft-spoken
✔ Closed: bedroom, makeup, basketball

In this video, we look at 10+ closed compounds that can be used in academic writing to satisfy the lexical resource component of the writing section:
▪firsthand (secondhand) ▪widespread ▪upside/downside ▪overestimate/underestimate ▪household ▪backbone
▪commonplace (everyday) ▪extraordinary
▪tailspin ▪foresight/hindsight

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