noun · neutral
spam
/spæm/SPAM
Band 5-6speakingtask2
unwanted or junk email or messages, often advertising
Examples
“My inbox is full of spam offering loans I didn't ask for.”
“The filter moved the spam into a separate folder.”
“Stop sending me spam; I didn't sign up for this.”
Band 8 sentence
“Because of the volume of spam, I use filters to automatically move suspicious messages to a separate folder.”
Collocations
- spam email
- spam folder
Word family
spam nounspam verbspammer noun
Common mistakes
I received many spams yesterday.→I received a lot of spam yesterday.
I moved that mail to spams folder.→I moved that mail to the spam folder.
Say it for a higher band
5advertisement→6junk mail→7+spam
Synonyms
junk mail
Easily confused
junk mail
“Her inbox was full of junk mail after she signed up for the website.”
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