IELTS Reading: keywords again!

Here's a table showing the key vocabulary from the four most recent IELTS reading exercises on this blog.

Note: Did you know the word 'introspective'? The noun 'introspection' is a word that I like.

Comments

[Binh]

Hi Simon, can I say "I am an introspective person" rather than saying " I am an introvert"? are they the same?

Cheers,

[Fruzsi]

Binh

https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=%22introspective+person%22&num=10

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=introspective+person%2Cintrovert%2Cintrospective+*_NOUN&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1880&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cintrospective%20person%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cintrovert%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bintrovert%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BIntrovert%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BINTROVERT%3B%2Cc0%3B.t2%3B%2Cintrospective%20%2A_NOUN%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bintrospective%20analysis_NOUN%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bintrospective%20psychology_NOUN%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bintrospective%20method_NOUN%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bintrospective%20reports_NOUN%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bintrospective%20data_NOUN%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bintrospective%20evidence_NOUN%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bintrospective%20observation_NOUN%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bintrospective%20study_NOUN%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bintrospective%20report_NOUN%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bintrospective%20account_NOUN%3B%2Cc0

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/introvert

"Introvert" may sound pejorative in popular usage: "Popular use tends to lump such behaviors together and sometimes pejoratively consider them withdrawn or antisocial." per Wiktionary.

[Simon]

Binh,

Yes, and the meanings are different. As Fruzsi says, ‘introvert’ is commonly used to mean something similar to ‘shy’ (although psychologists may use the word in a slightly more nuanced way).

‘Introspection’ (reflecting and examining your own feelings or deeper thoughts) is not generally associated with shyness.