IELTS Vocabulary Part – 140

Lured: tempt (a person or animal) to do something or to go somewhere, especially by offering some form of reward.

Sentence – The prosecution alleged that he lured the officer to his death by making an emergency call.

Bang for one’s buck: worth of one’s money or exertion.

Sentence – If you get more bang for your buck(s), you get a better result for the amount of effort or money that you have put into something.

Cumbersome: large or heavy and therefore difficult to carry or use; unwieldy.

Sentence – Our Intelligence Service was untrained, cumbersome, and almost wholly ineffectual.

Eternal: lasting or existing forever; without end.

Sentence – Some people, need deep and eternal remember. And some people, and need to work hard to forget.

Belligerence: aggressive or warlike behaviour.

Sentence – A single incident suggests a great deal about Hennepinhis prudery, his belligerence, his sensitivity.

Acclimatised to: become accustomed to a new climate or new conditions; adjust.

Sentence – Many walkers, particularly Brits, prefer to start in the south, reaching the more spectacular northern half when acclimatised.

Cripple: cause (someone) to become unable to walk or move properly.

Sentence – There’s only one way you can cripple a bad scientist, and that’s to demonstrate how bad his science is.

Disentangle: free (something or someone) from something that they are entangled with.

Sentence – It’s very difficult to disentangle fact from fiction in what she’s saying.

Freight: goods transported in bulk by truck, train, ship, or aircraft.

Sentence – Environmental pressures are strengthening the case for waterborne freight.

Candy – a sweet food made from sugar or chocolate, or a piece of this.

Sentence – He conciliated his angry daughter with a piece of candy.

Happily – in a happy way.

Sentence – They’ll quite happily squander a whole year’s savings on two weeks in the sun.

Word – a single unit of language that has meaning and can be spoken or written.

Sentence – While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ’tis once spoken, ’tis another’s.

Inflow – the action of people or things arriving somewhere.

Sentence – The inflow to pension funds is combined with the inflow of funds to life assurance companies and is shown in cell 6/3.

Surroundings – the place where someone or something is and the things that are in it.

Sentence – He didn’t feel completely at ease in the strange surroundings.

Tailor – someone whose job is to repair, make, and adjust (= make changes to) clothes, especially someone who makes jackets, trousers, coats, etc. for men.

Sentence – Most travel agents are prepared to tailor travel arrangements to meet individual requirements.

Impassive – If someone’s face is impassive, it expresses no emotion, because the person seems not to be affected by the situation they are experiencing.

Sentence – No emotion showed on Dempster’s impassive face, only a slight pallor in his normally ruddy complexion.

Docile – quiet and easy to influence, persuade, or control.

Sentence – She rejected the traditional female roles of docile daughter and dutiful wife.

Transitory – lasting for only a short time.

Sentence – Given that these change over time, the dominance of the industry by a certain nationality of institutions may be transitory.