Nuance – Word Of The Day For IELTS
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Nuance – Word Of The Day For IELTS Speaking And Writing
Nuance: (Noun) /ˈnuːɑːns/
Definition:
a very slight, hardly noticeable difference in manner, colour, meaning etc
Synonyms:
Gradation, Nicety, Subtlety.
Collocations:
Subtle nuance
Example:
For IELTS Speaking:.
“These additional flavor layers offer greater opportunities to marry the dish with the subtle nuances of a fine Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot.”
“Scientists now understand the subtle nuances of its genetic machinery.”
For IELTS Writing:
“Scientists now understand the subtle nuances of its genetic machinery.”
Exercise:
Choose the following words to fill in the blank: inherently, cessation, distortion, overlapping, analogous, nuance, mediator, refinements, confinement, scenarios.
- In October of 1968, U.S. president Lyndon Johnson ordered the total _______________ of American bombing of North Vietnam.
- The latest safety _______________ make this Volvo the best family car available today.
- American military personnel are staging various terrorist _______________ in order to better prepare for possible future attacks
- The amount of _______________ on the radio depends on how strong the signal is.
- Driving a car is not _______________ dangerous even though thousands of people die in accidents each year.
- The union has been unable to reach a settlement with the administration, and has asked for the services of a well-known _______________.
- Beauty was communication, each mote of light shaded with one _________ of meaning and each meaning had a colour.
- Schools are organized like factories, and the educational process is _______________ to commodity production.
- Despite his years of _______________ in a prisoner-of-war camp, the old man always had a positive view of life.
- If you want to make a darkroom for developing your photos, you’ll need to put _______________ sheets of black paper on the window so that absolutely no light gets through.
Answer keys:
- cessation
- refinements
- scenarios
- distortion
- inherently.
- mediator.
- nuance.
- analogous.
- confinement.
- overlapping.
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