IELTS VOCABULARY

Eye contact – The state in which two people are aware of looking directly into one another’s eyes

Sentence – In the workplace, your posture and eye contact can send co-workers a positive or a negative message.

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.

Manipulate: control or influence in a clever way.

Sentence – The treasurer was arrested for trying to manipulate the company’s accounts.

Body language – communication via movements of the body

Sentence –  Non verbal communication includes gestures, facial expressions and body language.

Irrevocable:  that cannot be changed.

Sentence – Think about the situation carefully before you take an irrevocable step.

Passes through – cause to move through

Sentence – The developing insect passes through several discrete stages.

Languish: to experience long suffering.

Sentence – And they neglect an equally dire risk: A minimum wage that is too low leaves people to languish on welfare.

Distract – To draw or direct to a different object or in different directions at the same time

Sentence – It is easy to distract children with digital media in today’s world.

Begins with – to start to happen or exist

Sentence – This process begins with the raw materials arriving at the loading bay.