IELTS Vocabulary – Part 31

Anyway – whatever else is happening, without considering other things.

Sentence – Catherine wasn’t sure the book was the right one, but she bought it anyway.

To respond – to say or do something as a reaction to something that has been said or done.

Sentence – I asked her what the time was, but she didn’t respond.

Precis – a short form of a text that gives only the important parts.

Sentence – You can only burn away those precis writers , let all memory become the trail disappearing away.

Dry – used to describe something that has no water or other liquid in, on, or around it.

Sentence – Dry curly hair naturally for maximum curl and shine.

To minimize – to reduce something to the least possible level or amount.

Sentence – The polar explorers took every precaution to minimize the dangers of their trip.

Satisfied – pleased because you have got what you wanted, or because something has happened in the way that you wanted.

Sentence – Longitudinal are easily satisfied, cross ratio is easy to be lost; meet the person is easy to come to a standstill, the lost is easy to choose to rise.

Vain – unsuccessful; of no value.

Sentence – A seemingly endless line of trucks waits in vain to load up.

To conform – to obey a rule or reach the necessary stated standard, or to do things in a traditional way.

Sentence – This mark signifies that the products conform to an approved standard.

Conflict – an active disagreement between people with opposing opinions or principles.

Sentence – We should recant all opinions which are in conflict with those proclaimed by the central leadership.

Twister – a tornado or a whirlwind.

Sentence – No one was injured when a twister hit here on Friday.

To float – to stay on the surface of a liquid and not sink.

Sentence – He tossed the bottle into the waves and watched it float out to sea.

Instinct – the way people or animals naturally react or behave, without having to think or learn about it.

Sentence – He had left cricket but yesterday due to some instinct he felt like playing again.

To admit – to agree that something is true, especially unwillingly.

Sentence – He conducted the meeting in his usual combative style, refusing to admit any mistakes.

To intensify – to become greater, more serious, or more extreme, or to make something do this.

Sentence – The downpour did not intensify by degrees but simply gushed forth with biblical fury, vertical and windless.

Intriguing – to interest someone a lot, especially by being strange, unusual, or mysterious.

Sentence – She has created an intriguing story by skillfully interweaving fictional and historical events.

Moderate – neither small nor large in size, amount, degree, or strength.

Sentence – If you have great talents, industry will improve them. If you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

Minor – having little importance, influence, or effect, especially when compared with other things of the same type.

Sentence – There is concern that police use the law to confiscate assets from people who have committed minor offences.

To infect – to pass a disease to a person, animal, or plant.

Sentence – On the other hand, aphids can infect raspberries with incurable virus diseases, and blackcurrant reversion is spread by big-bud mites.

Vacuum – a space from which most or all of the matter has been removed, or where there is little or no matter.

Sentence – The vacuum inside the tube caused it to implode when the external air pressure was increased.

Removable – able to be removed.

Sentence – It has cushion covers that are easily removable for dry cleaning and the sofa comes complete with two matching scatter cushions.