Variety of synonyms for

Describing statistics

III-o kurso Anglų ir antros užsienio kalbos pedagogikos studentas Justas Ruseckas
 Listeners tend to pay more attention to people when they
do not use reluctant words
Word variety is often evaluated and mandatory during
English exams (Speaking tasks, Academic or Creative
Importance of writing)
word variety in It makes the speaker’s or writer’s language more
our speeches and interesting
written texts It is a good way to show the overall knowledge and
capability to use the English language
In formal environments, it is useful to make up favorable
first impressions
  Rise, increase, grow, go up to, climb,
boom, peak, etc.
 Fall decline, decrease, drop, dip, go
down, reduce, etc.
Synonymic Verbs
regarding statistics  Remain stable, no change, remain
or other calculations steady, stay constant, consistent.
Maintain the same level, etc.
  Sharp, rapid, huge, dramatic,
substantial, considerable,
Adjectives significant,
 Slight, small, minimal, miniscule,
modest, short, small-scale
  Dramatically, rapidly, hugely, massively,
sharply, steeply, considerably,
substantially, significantly
Adverbs
 Slightly, minimally, markedly, lightly,
hardly noticeably, inconsiderably,
Here are few examples of how we may change
our speaking while explaining the differences in
paragraphs
“We asked 15 students of what is their preferable choice of
drink”

1. “We can see, that water is the most dominant choice in

the chart.” What do students prefer to drink
6
“Most of the students prefer to drink water / Water is the
most popular drink in the chart”
5
2. The chart subtilty/minimally changes. The chart
declines slightly
4

Students who drink soda and energy drinks are distributed

equally (on the same level) 3

“The chart remains consistent / on the same level for these

two particular statistics” 2

3. While talking about coffee, its’ graph minimally / lightly

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increases / overtakes over soda and energy drinks.

We can also say that students who drink water peaks up to 5 0

people, soda and energy drinks to 3, lastly coffee peaks up Water Soda Energy drinks Coffee
to 4 people What do students prefer to drink
One more example of different synonym usage.

1. We can see in the paragraph that not many

students chose to study Pedagogics. Students' prefarable study fields

2. A rapid/significant/dramatic increase 14
/boom/climb of interest is in IT field of
studies 12

3. A slight/short/small-scale climb could be 10

seen in humanitarian study field.
8
4. A significant/moderate drop of interest could
be seen in art study field 6

In case if we want to use other synonyms, we

could use https://www.thesaurus.com/ page. 2

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Pedagogics IT field Humanitarian Arts

Students' prefarable study fields

 A task to
describe this
particular graph
Lets try to describe
the statistics with
other forms of
synonyms