IELTS Academic Reading Cambridge 16- Test 1- Passage 3- The future of work. Vocabulary you must learn

1 consultancy company that helps business

2 global worldwide

3 workforce (all the workers in a company or country)

4 adapt change a little and get better

5 evolve change (and get better)

6 alongside next to

7 increasingly more and more

8 ’em them

9 artificial (not made by nature/fake)

10 algorithms sets of computer instructions

11 fundamental basic

12 so-called (what people commonly call a/not really a)

13 economy (process of people making, selling, and buying things)

14 are capable of learning can learn

15 undertake begin/try

16 previously (before that/before now)

17 consider think about/believe

18 enhance improve

19 productivity working well and getting a lot done

20 consequences results

21 routine (something commonly done)

22 cognitive thinking-related

23 professions jobs/lines of work

24 legitimate legal/real and true

25 peripheral (off to the side)

26 novice beginner

27 by observation by watching

28 monitored watched/supervised

29 telecommunications (related to sending and receiving phone calls, texts, etc.)

30 assess test/evaluate

31 algorithm set of computer instructions

32 campaigns (series of actions to reach goals)

33 whereby within which/by which

34 alternative different

35 explorations (events where things are explored)

36 experimentation (trying new things out/testing ideas scientifically)

37 instinct gut feeling

38 colleagues fellow workers

39 observed watched/followed

40 strategies (success plans/ways of reaching goals)

41 algorithm computer code-related

42 eases (reduces/ slows/ slowly moves)

43 scenarios pictures/situations

44 researchers (people who work to find information)

45 objective goal

46 trustworthy (deserving people’s trust because of honesty, etc.)

47 transparent clear/open and honest

48 individuals people

49 dilemma two-headed problem

50 regarding (related to/looking at/thinking about)

51 expertise (ability to do things very well)

52 occupational (related to working on the job)

53 boundaries edges/borders

54 economist money-flow expert

55 transitions changes (from one thing to another)

56 trajectory arc-like path

57 pensioned (getting money after retirement)

58 envisages pictures

59 multiple many

60 predictions (statements about possible future events)

61 fallacy lie

62 advent of coming of

63 recently (not very long ago)

64 redundancies unnecessary things

65 seizing grabbing and taking control of

66 leisure fun/relaxation

67 pre-empt take over

68 guarantee (promise that something will definitely happen or that something will definitely work as described)

69 thriving successfully growing

70 economic money-based

71 democracy (system or country where leaders are chosen by votes)

72 astound shock

73 capacity to ability to

74 subsistence survival/income

75 agriculture farming

76 corporate (related to big business)

77 pronounced obvious