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albeit

conjunction/ɔːlˈbiːɪt/

B2CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
FormalRegister

Although, used to introduce a concise concessive qualification within a sentence.

The intervention produced a positive effect, albeit a modest one, across all three cohorts.

Similar: although, even though

Topic: Academic writing in General English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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