IELTS Vocabulary

To inspect – to look at something or someone carefully in order to discover information, especially about their quality or condition.

Sentence – The company agreed to inspect the river regularly, as a sop to the environmental lobby.

To collect – to get and keep things of one type such as stamps or coins as a hobby.

Sentence – On presentation of the relevant identity documents you may collect your property.

Impetuous – likely to do something suddenly, without considering the results of your actions.

Sentence – Powell felt both clubs were impetuous buys which Virgin could ill-afford at a time when it was struggling out of recession.

To receive – to get or be given something.

Sentence – Full-time employees are entitled to receive health insurance.

Beneficent – helping people and doing good acts.

Sentence – Everything important to the farm was under the care of a beneficent power, never conceived of as having a definite shape.

Nameless – having no name, or having a name that is not known.

Sentence – A harmless pleasure can become the gateway to nameless hells when for whatever reasons it begins to carry a significant symbolic meaning.

To confuse – to mix up someone’s mind or ideas, or to make something difficult to understand.

Sentence – To further confuse the issue, there is an enormous variation in the amount of sleep people feel happy with.

Overseas – in, from, or to other countries.

Sentence – Generous remuneration packages are often attached to overseas postings.

To deduce – to reach an answer or a decision by thinking carefully about the known facts.

Sentence – Using the evidence available it is possible to deduce quite a lot about how these people lived.

High – (especially of things that are not living) being a large distance from top to bottom or a long way above the ground, or having the stated distance from top to bottom.

Sentence – The house is encircled by a high fence.

Convalesce – to rest in order to get better after an illness.

Sentence – These two physical symptoms are the most important causes of disability and failure to convalesce.

Outside – not inside a building.

Sentence – Signs with three balls hang outside pawnbrokers’ shops.

To renounce – to say formally or publicly that you no longer own, support, believe in, or have a connection with something.

Sentence – The developing countries were urged to renounce such military links and embrace a policy of neutralism or non-alignment.

More and more – increasingly, or an increasing number of.

Sentence – It has developed very fast in the past years, more and more people come here to seek opportunities.

To grouse – to grumble.

Sentence – Throughout the day the grouse drums in the woods, and the woodcock performs its exuberant ritual at dawn and dusk.

To assure – to tell someone confidently that something is true, especially so that they do not worry.

Sentence – He hastened to assure me that there was nothing traumatic to report.

Advocate – to publicly support or suggest an idea, development, or way of doing something.

Sentence – Some economists strongly advocate the reform of government ownership of industry.

Coiffure – the style in which someone’s hair is cut and arranged.

Sentence – Natasha unconsciously examined that neck and the shoulders, the pearls, the coiffure of this lady, and admired the beauty of the shoulders and the pearls.