IELTS Vocabulary Part – 186

Conflict – an active disagreement between people with opposing opinions or principles.

Sentence – We should recant all opinions which are in conflict with those proclaimed by the central leadership.

Twister – tornado.

Sentence – She may be a back-stabbing, double-dealing, power-hungry twister, but she’s one of my own kind.

To float – to stay on the surface of a liquid and not sink.

Sentence – We waited for the tide to float the boat off the sandbank.

Instinct – the way people or animals naturally react or behave, without having to think or learn about it.

Sentence – Few ministers have the nous or the instinct required to understand the ramifications.

To admit – to agree that something is true, especially unwillingly.

Sentence – The school governors have absolute discretion over which pupils they admit.

To intensify – to become greater, more serious, or more extreme, or to make something do this.

Sentence – Relationships with the global trading and financial systems have continued to intensify.

Intriguing – to interest someone a lot, especially by being strange, unusual, or mysterious.

Sentence – The magazine carries an intriguing mixture of high fashion, gossip and racing.

Moderate – neither small nor large in size, amount, degree, or strength.

Sentence – Several pupils were designated as having moderate or severe learning difficulties.

Minor – having little importance, influence, or effect, especially when compared with other things of the same type.

Sentence – Minor skin imperfections can usually be disguised with a spot of make-up.

To infect – to pass a disease to a person, animal, or plant.

Sentence – Viral infectiousness is defined as the ability of a virus to enter and infect a cell in the target host.

To vacuum – a space from which most or all of the matter has been removed, or where there is little or no matter.

Sentence – The vacuum inside the tube caused it to implode when the external air pressure was increased.

Removable – able to be removed.

Sentence – And it comes with a removable air filter, an extra long cable, fitted plug and a two year guarantee.

Sundown – the time in the evening when you last see the sun in the sky.

Sentence – As sundown approached, scores of settlers and a wagon train of police vans moved down the hill as Maj.

Joy – great happiness.

Sentence – Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money ; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Encourage – to make someone more likely to do something, or to make something more likely to happen.

Sentence – Meanwhile, they should encourage those among us who cannot swim five yards before they are gasping for air.

Class – a group of students who are taught together at school, college, or university.

Sentence – His uncontrolled behavior disturbed the entire class.

To vanquish – to defeat an enemy or opponent, especially in war.

Sentence – She wouldn’t be as easy to vanquish as she had been outside the Feelgood Saloon.

Turmoil – a state of confusion, uncertainty, or disorder.

Sentence – During the turmoil in the foreign-exchange markets the guilder remained strong.

To transform – to change completely the appearance or character of something or someone, especially so that that thing or person is improved.

Sentence – She actually wanted to reconstruct the state and transform society.

To deprave – to corrupt.

Sentence – We deprave straw with ordinary compost method, and find out optimum condition of straw depravity.

To chop – to cut something into pieces with an axe, knife, or other sharp instrument.

Sentence – He went outside to chop some more wood for the fire.