58 Collocations Words: Learning Collocations (B2 + C1 + C2)

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Collocations Words: In this lesson, you will be learning over 50 different collocations, from levels B2, C1 to C2. The phrases that we’re going to look at are upper intermediate to advanced.

This lesson will help you supercharge your vocabulary by learning many different collocations, which are words that are frequently used together. When you use them in conversation, it’s just going to help you sound more natural.

Now, I’m not going to lie to you, building your vocabulary is something that may take a considerable amount of time, but learning collocations can be somewhat of a shortcut.

58 Collocations Words: B2 + C1 + C2

Collocations Words b1, c1, c2

  1. a considerable amount of (something)
  2. a considerable difference
  3. considerable progress
  4. considerable influence (over someone)
  5. Give feedback
  6. Provide feedback
  7. After feedback
  8. Get feedback
  9. Receive feedback
  10. Positive feedback
  11. Negative feedback
  12. Deeply worried (about)
  13. Deeply concerned (about)
  14. Deeply flawed (e.g plan/individual)
  15. Deeply sorry
  16. Deeply moved (by)
  17. Deeply in love
  18. Controversial issue
  19. Controversial decision
  20. Controversial figure (person)
  21. Conventional wisdom
  22. Wisdom tooth
  23. Call an (emergency) meeting
  24. Call for a strike
  25. Call for an election
  26. Call for a halt to something
  27. Tedious job
  28. Tedious work
  29. Tedious task
  30. Bubble over with excitement
  31. Bubble over with enthusiasm
  32. Bubble over with emotion
  33. Burning desire
  34. Burning ambition
  35. Burning issue
  36. Burning question
  37. Capture the imagination (of)
  38. Capture the attention (of)
  39. Capture the interest (of)
  40. Capture (my) imagination
  41. Capture (the audience’s) attention
  42. Capture (your) interest
  43. Underlying cause
  44. Underlying condition [You may hear doctors using these collocations. Perhaps a doctor may talk about an underlying condition or the underlying cause of some illness]
  45. Underlying principle
  46. Underlying motivation
  47. Legal framework
  48. Regulatory framework
  49. Theoretical framework
  50. Government expenditure
  51. Annual expenditure
  52. Personal expenditure
  53. Literal meaning
  54. Literal interpretation
  55. (in a) Literal sense
  56. Finite resource
  57. Finite number
  58. Finite amount (of)

B2 Collocations

Collocations Words b2

1. Considerable

Meaning: very large or much

Adjective + Noun Collocations

  1. a considerable amount of (something)
  2. a considerable difference
  3. considerable progress
  4. considerable influence (over someone)

Examples:

  • Besides, we have to do a considerable amount of paperwork.
  • You might go back and use your considerable influence and ask your cabinet colleagues if they might reconsider.
  • I am confident that learning collocations will make a considerable difference in building your vocabulary.

2. Feedback

Meaning: This is information or statements of opinion about something, such as a product, and saying whether it’s successful or liked.

Verb + Noun Collocations

  1. Give feedback
  2. Provide feedback
  3. After feedback
  4. Get feedback
  5. Receive feedback

Adjective + Noun Collocations

  1. Positive feedback
  2. Negative feedback

3. Deeply

Meaning: extremely or strongly

Note: There are some adverb-adjective collocations that may have a positive connotation or a negative connotation.

Adverbs + Adjective Collocations (Negative)

  1. Deeply worried (about)
  2. Deeply concerned (about)
  3. Deeply flawed (e.g plan/individual)

Examples:

  • I’m deeply worried about aging.
  • The U.S. is deeply concerned about escalating conflict and is not well on either side.
  • He’s deeply flawed and somehow, we raised a child

Adverbs + Adjective Collocations (Positive)

  1. Deeply sorry [if you’re apologizing, you could say that you are deeply sorry]
  2. Deeply moved (by)
  3. Deeply in love

Examples:

  • He is deeply sorry
  • I told him that I was deeply moved by his statement
  • I was in love with her and she was in love with me,” “We were so deeply in love.

4. Controversial

Meaning: something causing disagreement or discussion

Adjective + Noun Collocations

  1. Controversial issue
  2. Controversial decision
  3. Controversial figure (person)

Adverb + Adjective Collocations

  1. Extremely controversial
  2. Highly controversial

5. Wisdom

Meaning: using knowledge and experience to make good decisions

Adjective + Noun Collocations

  1. Conventional wisdom (It refers to opinions or theories that have existed for a long time and that most people agree with)
  2. Wisdom tooth/ teeth(here wisdom is an adjective)

Examples:

  • Conventional wisdom suggests that our next move is to resume hostilities. To fight.
  • Conventional wisdom says good fleeing will always be good chasing, but the stats say put your money on the guy with the gun. [Collocations Words]
  • Dental emergency, I’m getting my wisdom teeth pulled.
  • All of the extra painkillers that I had left over from my wisdom teeth removal.
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C1 Collocations

Collocations Words c1

1. Call

Meaning: This is a verb that has multiple meanings, but in this case, we’re talking about arranging for something to happen, such as a particular event, usually something official.

Verb + Noun Collocations

  1. Call an (emergency) meeting [to call a meeting or more specifically, to call an emergency meeting]
  2. Call for a strike
  3. Call for an election
  4. Call for a halt to something

2. Tedious

Meaning: It’s an adjective that means boring or uninteresting

Adjective + Noun Collocations

  1. Tedious job
  2. Tedious work
  3. Tedious task

Note: They’re similar, they’re synonyms, but great nouns to use with this adjective.

Examples:

  • Very selection is tedious work.
  • It’s the only way to get through yet another tedious and useless task.

3. Bubble over

Meaning: to be very excited or enthusiastic

Phrasal Verb + Noun Collocations

  1. Bubble over with excitement
  2. Bubble over with enthusiasm
  3. Bubble over with emotion

Note: Hopefully, it makes it a little easier to grasp these collocations because excitement, enthusiasm, and emotion, once again, are really synonyms.

4. Burning

Meaning: This word has a couple of different meanings, and you can learn about collocations with each.

Adjective + Noun Collocations

Meaning one: very strong

  1. Burning desire
  2. Burning ambition

Example:

  • Firefighters have a passion for their work; arsonists just have a burning desire.

Adjective + Noun Collocations

Meaning two: a subject or question that must be dealt with or answered quickly

  1. Burning issue
  2. Burning question

Examples:

  • You look like a boy with a burning question, one that my tarot cards can answer better than any book. [Collocations Words]

5. Capture

Meaning: it means to feel excited by something

Verb + noun Collocations

  1. Capture the imagination (of)
  2. Capture the attention (of)
  3. Capture the interest (of)

Note: We could also put a pronoun between the verb and the noun.

  1. Capture (my) imagination
  2. Capture (the audience’s) attention
  3. Capture (your) interest
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C2 Collocations

Collocations Words c2 vocabulary

1. Underlying

Meaning: it means something is real but not immediately obvious

Adjective + Noun Collocations

  1. Underlying cause
  2. Underlying condition [You may hear doctors using these collocations. Perhaps a doctor may talk about an underlying condition or the underlying cause of some illness]
  3. Underlying principle
  4. Underlying motivation

Examples:

  • As of right now, the mortality rate is fluctuating between 25 and 30 percent, depending upon underlying medical conditions.
  • Maybe you want to improve your English for more work opportunities, but perhaps you also want to date someone and have a relationship in English. You could say that maybe that is an underlying motivation (it’s real, but it’s not obvious).

2. Framework

Meaning: we’re talking about a system of rules, ideas, or beliefs that is used to decide something

Adjective + Noun Collocations

  1. Legal framework
  2. Regulatory framework
  3. Theoretical framework

3. Expenditure

Meaning: the total amount of money a government, organization, or even a person spends

Adjective + Noun Collocations

  1. Government expenditure
  2. Annual expenditure
  3. Personal expenditure

Verb + Noun Collocations

  1. Cut expenditure
  2. Reduce expenditure

Examples:

  • With current and projected deficits, we need to cut expenditures by 32 percent.

4. Literal

Meaning: it refers to the original or basic meaning of a word

Adjective + Noun Collocations

  1. Literal meaning
  2. Literal interpretation
  3. (in a) Literal sense
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5. Finite

Meaning: this adjective means having a limit or end

Adjective + Noun Collocations

  1. Finite resource
  2. Finite number
  3. Finite amount (of)

Conclusion

You just learned a lot of different collocations, and I do not expect you to remember all of these. [Collocations Words] I think you’re probably already familiar with many of these words, but it’s all about recognizing which words are frequently used together. That’s what collocations are, and your brain is going to start recognizing that pattern so that when you’re having a conversation, you’re just going to end up using the words together, and you’ll sound a lot more natural.

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