IELTS VOCABULARY

Surfeit: Excess

Sentence: The country has a surfeit of cheap labour.

Accustom: Familiarize, habituate

Sentence: I accustomed my eyes to the lenses

Pauper: A poor person

Sentence: He died as a pauper

Ponder: To think

Sentence: I pondered the question of what clothes to wear for the occasion

Irrefutable: Cannot be disproved

Sentence: Here was irrefutable proof of his resilient genius.

Meticulous: Excessively careful, painstaking, scrupulous

Sentence: the designs are hand-glazed with meticulous care.

Congruent: In agreement

Sentence: the rules may not be congruent with the requirements of the law.

Credulous: Tending to believe too readily, gullible

Sentence: a ceremony staged for credulous tourists

Empirical: Based on experience

Sentence: We have no empirical evidence that the industry is in trouble

Lethargic: drowsy

Sentence: I felt tired and a little lethargic