IELTS VOCABULARY

Gutter Press: Reporters or newspapers engaging in sensational journalism, especially accounts of the private lives of public figures.

Sentence: The gutter-press of the world filled their columns with sensational and scandalous lies.

Stimulate: to make something develop or become more active; to encourage something.

Sentence: The government plans to cut taxes in order to stimulate the economy.

Accumulate: To collect a large number of things over a long period of time

Sentence: I seem to have accumulated a lot of books.

Less than: Not at all or hardly at all.

Sentence: The victory of the team was nothing less than a miracle.

Proofreader: a person who reads written or printed material and marks any errors.

Sentence: He was hired as a proofreader and translator for the local Newspaper.

Convenience: the quality of being useful, easy or suitable for somebody.

Sentence: I enjoy the convenience of living near a post office.

Equal to: being the same in quantity, size, degree, or value.

Sentence: She is quite equal to the teacher in her ability to speak English.

Half: either of two equal parts into which something is or can be divided

Sentence: The door was half open

Broadsheet: a newspaper that is printed on large sheets of paper.

Sentence: When I’m abroad, I miss having a decent broadsheet newspaper.