IELTS VOCABULARY

Ticket Office – an office or kiosk where tickets are sold.

Sentence – She picked up her two large suitcases and walked through the small cool ticket office on to the station forecourt.

Tourist Attraction – a place that people visit for pleasure and interest, usually while they are on holiday.

Sentence – Starting from the Scenic Tunnel, long a tourist attraction, the pair headed for the opening that had previously been blasted.

Dance Studio – a place where people can go for dance classes.

Sentence – I was the brain and artsy one, who spent more time practicing my scales and arpeggios on our baby grand piano and perfecting pirouettes in the dance studio.

Aperol – A proprietary name for an orange-coloured Italian aperitif flavoured with gentian, rhubarb, and a variety of herbs and roots.

Sentence – The group positioned Aperol Spritz as the perfect drink for social occasions, increasing sales to four times pre-acquisition levels.

Assault Weapon – A weapon designed for use in a large-scale military assault, esp. one used to attack a fortified or well-defended location.

Sentence – The rifle was manufactured after the assault weapons ban and remains legal.

Awesomesauce – Extremely good; excellent.

Sentence – I will still need to fill in the edges but it feels pretty awesomesauce to have accomplished this much.

Bukateria  – A roadside restaurant or street stall with a seating area, selling cooked food at low prices.

Sentence – When the people take back Yonge Street from the car, there will many a bukateria on the longest street in the world.”

Cottage – a small house, usually in the countryside.

Sentence – I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.