IELTS Vocabulary Part – 152

Alternative – Alternative things are considered to be unusual and often have a small but enthusiastic group of people who support them.

Sentence – Alternative medicines are now winning greater acceptance among doctors.

Benefit – a helpful or good effect, or something intended to help

Sentence – How differences between men and women might be used for our mu-tual benefit in everything from our relation with one another to a better understanding of how our brains work.

Comprehensive – complete and including everything that is necessary

Sentence – The judicial minister cited the latest crime figures as proof of the need for strengthening of the comprehensive administration of social public order.

Diligent – careful and using a lot of effort

Sentence – A diligent person, although because of his hard work and damage to his spiritual insight or fresh and creative, but he still will be praised.

Empathy – the ability to share someone else’s feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that person’s situation.

Sentence – Instead of beating the thief, we should ask him the reason for doing this work, maybe he gets better after getting empathy.

Feature – a typical quality or an important part of something

Sentence – It was the first movie to feature onscreen product placement for its own merchandise.

Generate – to cause something to exist

Sentence – By investing in efficient plant it could generate lots of valuable carbon credits to sell to wealthier, more wasteful nations.

Highlight – to attract attention to or emphasize something important

Sentence – There has been a lot of media attention highlighting the dangers of fast food consumption and the link to obesity

Illustrate – to draw pictures for a book, magazine, etc.

Sentence – She could illustrate her arguments with clever examples drawn from the real world of commerce.

Justify – to give or to be a good reason for

Sentence – They haven’t been given these rights for eternity – they should justify having them just like most other people have to

Likewise – in the same way.

Sentence – And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.

Abnegation : the act of not allowing yourself to have something, especially something you like or want

Sentence – The idea of the culture abnegation Marcuse brought up is not only the criticism to current tool’s rationality, but also the change in the concept of phoniness Marx raised.

Aggrandize: to make someone more powerful or important

Sentence – In order to aggrandize afresh their power, the powerful countries started aforethought aggression time and again.

Alacrity : speed and eagerness.

Sentence – The alacrity with which northerners enlisted for military service whenever warfare flared up on the Border speaks for itself.

Anachronistic: a person, thing, or idea that exists out of its time in history, especially one that happened or existed later than the period being shown, discussed, etc.

Sentence – The longer we live, the more anachronistic our culture becomes.

Archetypal : typical of an original thing from which others are copied

Sentence – Its archetypal shape and colour have universal appeal, evoking a sense of fun and childhood..

Ascetic : avoiding physical pleasures and living a simple life, often for religious reasons.

Sentence – Like the ascetic movement of which it was an outgrowth, monasticism had its origins in the Middle East.

Beguile : to persuade, attract, or interest someone, sometimes in order to deceive them.

Sentence – That does not suggest the outrage that a perusal of Hansard might beguile readers into expecting.