IELTS VOCABULARY

Adjure (Verb):

Meaning: Formal exertion on someone to do something.

Sentence: The doctor adjured his patient to concur for heart surgery.

Badinage (Noun):

Meaning: Witty conversation.

Sentence: We had badinage last night.

Carp (Verb):

Meaning: Complaint continually.

Sentence: Our neighbours keep carping about poor facilities in our county.

Dogmatic (Adjective):

Meaning: Thrusting one’s opinion or beliefs while reluctant to accept those of others.

Sentence: The leader seems quite dogmatic.

Effete (Adjective):

Meaning: No longer effective.

Sentence: The chamber is currently exhausted.

Fulminate (Noun):

Meaning: Protest strongly against something.

Sentence: There is always some fulmination to new rules.

Gofer (Noun):

Meaning: Person who runs errands.

Sentence: I am hunting for a gofer.

Hark (Verb):

Meaning: to listen closely or give attention to something

Sentence: All of the children stopped to hark the Christmas carollers singing outside the window.