IELTS Vocabulary

Awesome– causing feelings of great admiration, respect, or fear

Sentence – That was about all that was known about it, except that the topography was awesome and the rainfall scarce.

Bagel – a type of bread that is small, hard, and in the shape of a ring

Sentence – I sipped my plastic cup of reconstituted orange juice and took a bite of my over-buttered pumpernickel bagel, smearing my hands.

Buzzy – exciting, especially because a lot of people are present and a lot of things are happening

Sentence – And he registers genuine hurt at the fact that Buzzy regards Buck as more of a father figure than himself.

Buka – an inexpensive roadside restaurant that prepared food in advance.

Sentence – When I was on tour, I ate mostly in bukas and restaurants more often.

Dumpster – a brand name for a large container for waste, with a lid that is fixed along one edge, used outside restaurants and shops, in apartment buildings, etc.

Sentence – But the cost is so high that only places like the Cushing Academy or well endowed universities can afford it —the rest of us just end up with books in the dumpster.

Deleter – agent noun of delete, one who deletes.

Sentence – The names of the getter, setter, and deleter are nothing reserved.

E- waste – computers, phones, and other electronic products that are thrown away because they are old, broken, etc.

Sentence – E-waste is the fastest-growing source of manufacturing waste.

Eyelessness – blindness due to lack of eyes.

Sentence – His friend never got married due to his eyelessness problem.

Freegan – a person who chooses to eat food that is not bought from a shop, especially food that other people, shops, or organizations throw away, so that food is not wasted.

Sentence – We need, or we want to be, freegans to clean our wasteful society.