IELTS VOCABULARY

Visual humor = comedy that doesn’t rely on words.

Sentence – While the dialogue is interesting despite being slightly fractured, the movie also has a lot of visual humor.  

Added to – to have a particular result or effect

Sentence – The sauce looked runny so I added some more flour.

Manager – the person who is responsible for managing an organization.

Sentence – He is the vice general manager of this company.

Anglosphere – English-speaking countries considered collectively (the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and Ireland).

Sentence – This approach would also diminish the growing influence of the Anglosphere countries in the region.

Awedde – Overcome with anger, madness, or distress; insane, mentally disturbed.

Sentence – “How does she manage to run so fast at her age?” he asked in awed tones.

Sent to / for– caused or enabled to go or be conveyed or transmitted

Sentence – I was sent to boarding school, where I spent six years of unremitting misery.

Laugh-out-loud = extremely funny.

Sentence – Millions shake their heads at the symmetry and laugh out loud.

Decorator – a person whose job is to paint the inside or outside of buildings and to do other related work.

Sentence – I think I’m going to hire an interior decorator to look the place over.