IELTS Vocabulary Part – 151

Hunger – the feeling you have when you need to eat.

Sentence – Oliver went up to the master, with his bowl in his hand. He felt very frightened, but also desperate with hunger.

Stable – firmly fixed or not likely to move or change.

Sentence – The situation in the country has remained relatively stable for a few months now.

Egocentric – thinking only about yourself and what is good for you.

Sentence – We have already seen that egocentric speech prevalent early in the preoperational stage has social aspects.

Hospitable – friendly and welcoming to guests and visitors.

Sentence – Two friendly, hospitable brothers own and run the Hotel Gallini and regard both the hotel and their guests with great affection.

Legitimate – allowed by law.

Sentence – Furthermore, he had the brains and the strength of character to graduate from rebel leader to legitimate president.

Mindless – stupid and meaning nothing.

Sentence – Somebody goes and does something mindless like that and just destroys everything for you.

Destiny – the things that will happen in the future.

Sentence – Destiny determines who comes into our lives but it’s the heart that decides who stays inside.

Touchy – easily offended or upset.

Sentence – Now I get very touchy about finishing because it is so very important from the client’s point of view.

Loopy – strange, unusual, or silly.

Sentence – Even if it is just Pete Schourek rocketing across the outfield so that his loopy boss can pretend to be an innovator.

Imperative – extremely important or urgent.

Sentence – Sharing food is the most important moral imperative in Semai society.

Business – the activity of buying and selling goods and services.

Sentence – He that thinks his business below him will always be above his business.

Honest – telling the truth or able to be trusted and not likely to steal, cheat, or lie.

Sentence – Truth is honest, truth is sure; Truth is strong and must endure.

Napkin – a small square piece of cloth or paper, used while you are eating to protect your clothes or to clean your mouth or fingers.

Sentence – She was taking tiny bites of a hot dog and daintily wiping her lips with a napkin.

Disgrace – embarrassment and the loss of other people’s respect, or behaviour that causes this.

Sentence – Poverty is not a sufficient cause of disgrace, but poverty without resolution to help oneself is a disgrace.

Confederate – someone you work together with in a secret, sometimes illegal, activity.

Sentence – A Confederate flag waves in the breeze and a Rottweiler named Cocoa Puff stands guard on the front porch.

To enquire – to investigate.

Sentence – I called the station to enquire about train times.

Sure – certain; without any doubt.

Sentence – If nobody loves you, be sure it is your own fault.

To provide – to give someone something that they need.

Sentence – Does the procedure provide adequate safeguards against corruption?

Phantasm – something that is seen or imagined but is not real.

Sentence – The subject phantasm is the product of subject essence and dynamic characters in the literary hermeneutics.

Scarcity – a situation in which something is not easy to find or get.

Sentence – Compounding scarcity is the growing problem of water degradation caused by saltwater intrusions, chemical pollutants, and human sewage.

Delicate – needing careful treatment, especially because easily damaged.

Sentence – Delicate and valuable books are kept in an air-conditioned annexe to the main library.

Dull (person) – not interesting or exciting in any way.

Sentence – There’s never a dull moment when John’s around.

Dawn – the period in the day when light from the sun begins to appear in the sky.

Sentence – Time has traveled into fragmentary memories of the dawn and then melt into one wipe mist.