IELTS Vocabulary Part – 209

Obstinacy – the quality of being unreasonably determined, especially to act in a particular way and not to change at all, despite what anyone else says.

Sentence – He was irritated, the chief inspector decided, by her obstinacy, and hovered on the edge of asking her again.

Territorial – relating to territory.

Sentence – Being strongly territorial they have less need for this when compared with birds breeding in tightly packed colonies.

Alderman – in the UK , in the past, a member of a local government chosen by the other members.

Sentence – The disaster was so widespread that even Bridgeport and the rest of the Eleventh Ward elected a Republican alderman.

Objector – someone who objects to something or someone.

Sentence – An extraordinary character, Kellet was a conscientious objector working in the forest on the lower flanks of the mountain.

Clemency – kindness when giving a punishment.

Sentence – Juries have long stretched notions of self-defense or extended implicit clemency to recognize mitigating factors such as provocation and histories of abuse.

Privateer – a person or ship allowed by a government to attack and steal from ships at sea, especially in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Sentence – With the help of the privateer Astarta, Isolder was able to track down the murderer, the Pirate King Captain Harravan.

Belay – to control a rope that a climber is attached to and keep it tight, so that if the climber falls, they do not fall very far.

Sentence – The belay will probably be a few feet lower than it was and nearer to the exit from the groove.

Mockery – the act of mocking someone or something.

Sentence – The fact that he sent his children to private school makes a mockery of his socialist principles.

Compensate – to pay someone money in exchange for something that has been lost or damaged or for some problem.

Sentence – No supportive words could ever compensate for the pain of being separated from her children for 10 years.

Salutation – a greeting in words or actions, or the words used at the beginning of a letter or speech.

Sentence – Try to avoid the too frequent use of such Latin words as juxtaposition, animadvert, salutation, recapitulate.

Prominence – the state of being easily seen or well known.

Sentence – As Microsoft ascended to prominence and Apple descended to the depths, the licensing debate among Mac users rose in volume.

Elocution – the art of careful public speaking, using clear pronunciation and good breathing to control the voice.

Sentence – Aristotle contacted the teaching of the elocution practice very closely at the time of investigating the language feeling of argument.

Grantee – a person or organization that receives a grant.

Sentence – The grantee shall demolish and remove in time such technological equipment as required by the grant contract.

Mnemonics – something such as a very short poem or a special word used to help a person remember something.

Sentence – Research shows mnemonics plays a primary role in knowledge acquisition, especially in language learning.

Bureaucracy – a system for controlling or managing a country, company, or organization that is operated by a large number of officials employed to follow rules carefully.

Sentence – A large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble.

Pantheism – belief in many or all gods, or the belief that God exists in, and is the same as, all things, animals, and people within the universe.

Sentence – He is surrounded by a chorus of sycophantic philosophers who have substituted pandiabolism for pantheism.