IELTS & PTE Booster collocations

High-band academic lexical resources for Writing & Speaking. Each collocation links to its meaning, an example sentence and usage tips.

• profound impacta very strong and deep effect on someone or something
• play a vital roleto be very important in making something happen or succeed
• pose a threatto be a possible danger to someone or something
• close the divideto reduce a big difference or gap between two groups
• pave the wayto create the conditions that make a future development possible
• shed light onto help explain something or make it easier to understand
• take into accountto consider something when making a judgement or decision
• stem fromto be caused by something or develop as a result of it
• attribute toto say or believe that something is caused by a particular thing or person
• strike a balanceto find a fair compromise between two different needs or demands
• pressing needa need that is urgent and must be dealt with soon