IELTS Vocabulary Part – 201

To evaluate – To judge or calculate the quality, importance, amount, or value of something.

Sentence – Our research attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of the different drugs.

Substantially – to a large degree.

Sentence – To depart substantially from them invites question unless it can be demonstrated that such departure conforms to accepted practice by rational analysis.

Dangerous – A dangerous person, animal, thing, or activity could harm you.

Sentence – Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ingnorance and conscientious stupidity.

To connect – to associate, to put through (telephone).

Sentence – Such people seem to connect miracle and faith like this: This idea is not the one found in the Synoptic Gospels.

Hall – corridor.

Sentence – The acoustics of the new concert hall are excellent.

French dressing – vinaigrette.

Sentence – At serving – time arrange them neatly on lettuce leaves, cover with French dressing, and serve.

To explode – to blow up.

Sentence – The programme sets out to explode the myth that some delicate tropical fish are impossible to keep.

To collapse – to break down.

Sentence – The government predicates that the market collapse was caused by Asian financial crisis.

To accumulate – to build up.

Sentence – The exploratory design is used to accumulate data in order to formulate more precise hypotheses and research questions.

Livid – furious.

Sentence – Mansell was livid and admitted he ran away from the scene of the accident to avoid being tempted into big trouble.

Remark – comment.

Sentence – This kind of remark is guaranteed to light the blue touch paper with some Labour politicians.

Vibrate – tremble.

Sentence – Immediately, she felt the floor vibrate as the dome rumbled shut[sentencedict .com], sealing the chamber.

Inflexible – rigid.

Sentence – This approach proved impractical and inflexible and did not allow for innovation or different national traditions.

To select – to choose.

Sentence – Store managers have a wide discretion to select what clothing, shoes and accessories their stores sell, based on local preferences.

Spotlight – highlight.

Sentence – Campaigners are shining a spotlight on the world’s diminishing natural resources.

To illuminate – to light something and make it brighter

Sentence – It has served to illuminate and inspire many thousands of students, teachers and academics throughout the world.

Disaster – (an event that results in) great harm, damage, or death, or serious difficulty.

Sentence – Nothing in life is despair, a series of disaster will be can’t withstand the sunshine nightmare, to be bumpy.Life is the dojo, alive is a kind of practice.

To encounter – a meeting, especially one that happens by chance.

Sentence – The only other smell you are likely to encounter that could be confused with badger musk is that of the fox.

To emphasize – to stress.

Sentence – All the arguments and counter-arguments serve to emphasize the controversy surrounding this disease.

Innocent – (of a person) not guilty of a particular crime.

Sentence – I can imagine no greater miscarriage of justice than the execution of an innocent man.

Undeniable – indisputable.

Sentence – All three, when they achieve greatness, have also an undeniable high style which separates them from the pedestrian mobs.

Humiliate – to make someone feel ashamed or lose respect for himself or herself.

Sentence – On one hand, he resented his courtroom tirades, which were often personal and designed to humiliate.