IELTS Vocabulary
Sundown – the time in the evening when you last see the sun in the sky.
Sentence – As sundown approached, scores of settlers and a wagon train of police vans moved down the hill as Maj.
Joy – great happiness.
Sentence – The past is for wisdom, the present for action, but for joy the future.
Encourage – to make someone more likely to do something, or to make something more likely to happen.
Sentence – They display chocolates next to supermarket checkouts to encourage impulse buying.
To 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.
Turmoil – a state of confusion, uncertainty, or disorder.
Sentence – The turmoil of reorganization always presents such opportunities.
To transform – to change completely the appearance or character of something or someone, especially so that that thing or person is improved.
Sentence – Each rod contains thousands of proteins that transform light into signals via a molecule that crosses the membrane in a sevenfold zigzag.
To deprave – to make someone depraved.
Sentence – We deprave straw with ordinary compost method, and find out optimum condition of straw depravity.
To chop – to cut something into pieces with an axe, knife, or other sharp instrument.
Sentence – Roughly chop the vegetables, and keep back a little to chop finely and serve as a garnish.
To diminish – to reduce or be reduced in size or importance.
Sentence – If the anxiety does not diminish, more emotional probing may need to take place with some one skilled in this area.
To involve – If an activity, situation, etc. involves something, that thing is a part of the activity, etc.
Sentence – The school’s unexceptionable purpose is to involve parents more closely in the education of their children.
To magnify – to make something look larger than it is, especially by looking at it through a lens.
Sentence – Reflectional visible light sensor that can magnify the intensity of reflectional light by Darlington transistor is adopted in the sensor module.
Constancy – the quality of staying the same, not getting less or more.
Sentence – As for size constancy it is linked with the coordination of perceptually controlled movements.
Ornament – an object that is beautiful rather than useful.
Sentence – Every book and ornament was returned to its rightful place when we had finished painting the room.
Nugatory – worth nothing or of little value.
Sentence – This opinion was in practice formulated based on the nugatory answer to a linguistic conception that whether a music segment is clearly signified is justified on the basis of its signified relations.
Revolting – extremely unpleasant.
Sentence – It was revolting to see these half-starved creatures snuffling around behind the houses or along the river-bank in search of excrement.
Torpid – not active; moving or thinking slowly, especially as a result of being lazy or feeling that you want to sleep.
Sentence – The evolutionary advantage of this is that the animal need not lie around in a torpid state, vulnerable to attack.
Prompt – to make something happen.
Sentence – Your prompt attention to this matter will be appreciated.
To operate – to (cause to) work, be in action or have an effect.
Sentence – These thieves operate with terrifying stealth – they can easily steal from the pockets of unsuspecting travellers.
Vast – extremely big.
Sentence – Police reports showed that the vast majority of crime committed by children was carried out by truants.
To hand sth. Out – to distribute.
Sentence – Today the country’s nationalists rule the roost and hand out the jobs.
