IELTS VOCABULARY

Bang for one’s buck: worth of one’s money or exertion.

Sentence – If you get more bang for your buck(s), you get a better result for the amount of effort or money that you have put into something.

Herculean: requiring great strength or effort; arduous.

Sentence – His reputedly Herculean virility long remained a byword throughout the district over which he held sway.

 Acclimatised to: become accustomed to a new climate or new conditions; adjust.

Sentence – Many walkers, particularly Brits, prefer to start in the south, reaching the more spectacular northern half when acclimatised.

Swathes of land: a long, wide strap of land

Sentence – The fire had destroyed huge swathes of land.

Turned Into        changed into

Sentence – The investigation turned into a full-scale Communist witch hunt.

Extraterrestrial           any object or being beyond (extra-) the planet Earth (terrestrial)

Sentence – Since the first acceptance of meteorites as extraterrestrial material in the early 1800s, three major classes of meteorites have been recognized.

Fatal      extremely dangerous

Sentence – He suffered a fatal heart attack while cycling.