IELTS VOCABULARY

Muster: to gather or collect.

Sentence – New teams won’t be admitted to the league if their stadiums don’t pass muster.

Asset-stripping – the practice of buying a company which is in financial difficulties at a low price and then selling everything that it owns in order to make a profit

Sentence –The businessman bought the company with the intention of asset-stripping it and then selling for a profit

Consolidate -[transitive, intransitive] consolidate (something)(specialist) to join things together into one; to be joined into one

Sentence –All the debts have been consolidated.

Explode = to break up into pieces violently, or to cause something to do this

Sentence – The programme sets out to explode the myth that some delicate tropical fish are impossible to keep.

Infinite = without limits; extremely large or great

Sentence – This unbreakable bond that unites as one,Is as strong as the ascent of the morning sun.Infinite days and nights of joy stream by,And even beyond the day we die.

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.  

Get  the joke / See the joke = understand it.

Sentence – It wasn’t that I didn’t get the joke – I just didn’t think it was funny.

Moot: to state (a question, matter, etc.) for consideration.

Sentence – It is a moot point whether hierarchies exist outside our own thought processes.