Vocabulary for IELTS
Ultimate – most extreme or important because either the original or final, or the best or worst.
Sentence – Toward a day finally to achieve the ultimate goal of moving enough, but every step as the goal, to make it as a step function.
Underestimate – to fail to guess or understand the real cost, size, difficulty, etc. of something.
Sentence – One shouldn’t underestimate the difficulties of getting all the political parties to the conference table.
Undertake – to do or begin to do something, especially something that will take a long time or be difficult.
Sentence – Their brief is to undertake outreach work aimed at young African Caribbeans on the estate.
Valid – based on truth or reason; able to be accepted.
Sentence – Register using valid email id and phone number.
Vanquish – to defeat an enemy or opponent, especially in war.
Sentence – She wouldn’t be as easy to vanquish as she had been outside the Feelgood Saloon.
Vaunt – to speak proudly about or praise something, especially in a way that is more than acceptable or reasonable.
Sentence – But now this much vaunted initiative has foundered because there is little or no market interest in redevelopment.
Velleity – a wish or inclination not strong enough to lead to action.
Sentence – If you dream of going on safari in Africa, but you never even look into how much it costs, that dream was just a velleity.
Venerable – deserving respect because of age, high position, or religious or historical importance.
Sentence – He duly appeared before three or four venerable gentlemen who lectured him on how to behave in the Far East.
Versatile – able to change easily from one activity to another or able to be used for many different purposes.
Sentence – He’s a very versatile young actor who’s as happy in horror films as he is in TV comedies.
Vicissitude – a change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant.
Sentence – The comparatively long time intervals between such environmental vicissitudes may be characterized by stasis in ecosystems as well as the component species.
Volatile – likely to change suddenly and unexpectedly, especially by getting worse.
Sentence – The situation was made more volatile by the fact that people had been drinking a lot of alcohol.
Wingspan – the distance between the ends of the wings of a bird, insect, or aircraft.
Sentence – With its 56-inch wingspan, a mature female red-tailed hawk can weigh up to four pounds and dive for the kill at 120mph.
Woes – great sorrow or distress (often used hyperbolically).
Sentence – To add to Sears’ woes another ￡82 million went on getting rid of its loss-making menswear arm, which included Fosters.
Xenophobia – extreme dislike or fear of foreigners, their customs, their religions, etc.
Sentence – A man once famed for his intolerance, xenophobia and irrational rages has become a husk of his former self.
Zealous – enthusiastic and eager.
Sentence – Absent, too, is the zealous activism of a huge freshman class that entered Washington two years ago brimming with enthusiasm.
