
IELTS Vocabulary

Abnegation – Renunciation of a belief or doctrine; Denial
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 enhance power, wealth, or status
Sentence : In order to aggrandize afresh their power, the powerful countries started aforethought aggression time and again.

Fatuous – Devoid of intelligence
Sentence : He may be conceited, ill-mannered, presumptuous or fatuous, but I do not turn for protection to dreary cliches about respect of elders as if mere age were a reason for respect.

Gratuitous – Uncalled for or unwarranted
Sentence : In living-rooms throughout the country, violence, gratuitous and graphic, is often the staple diet of the video generation.

Iconoclast – Someone who criticizes or attacks cherished ideas and beliefs
Sentence : You are not an iconoclast but you do become bored with dry, repetitive studies and you gravitate to areas that are stimulating and require fast responsiveness to changing circumstances.

Idiosyncratic – Something peculiar to an individual
Sentence : Outdated voting mechanisms, a decentralised, idiosyncratic procedure, and the archaic electoral college have received comment.

Incumbent – A person who is currently in an official position.
Sentence : In all election campaigns, incumbent governments are going to be given a harder time than the Opposition.

Inveterate – Habitual
Sentence : While friends huddled collegiately around a teapot and shared a few moments of communality, I, an inveterate teabag user, would slink quietly back to my desk with my selfish mug for one.

Libertarian – Someone who cherishes ideas of free will.
Sentence : First, there is the libertarian premiss that a person’s position should not be irremediably worsened by another’s conduct.

Licentious – Someone who is promiscuous.
Sentence : A moralist who decried what she regarded as the licentious and corrupt culture of the entertainment industry

Largesse – Kindness or generosity in bestowing gifts or money
Sentence : Chinese enterprises are sometimes the beneficiaries of largesse from Beijing, such as low-interest loans that may never need to be repaid in full.

Multifarious – Multifaceted or diverse
Sentence : Cooperated now on market multifarious, dimension no longer onefold books, broke the fixed frame of traditional bookshelf, the limitation with equational space, use rise convenient freely.

Obdurate – Being stubborn and refusing to change one’s opinion
Sentence : Parts of the administration may be changing but others have been obdurate defenders of the status quo.

Ostracism – Excluding a person or certain section from the society by the majority’s consent
Sentence : Some African healers blame illness on witchcraft, which can lead to ostracism of those accused.

Pejorative – Showing disapproval
Sentence : Many Saudis reject the term “Wahhabism” as pejorative; they regard Wahhab’s ideas as Islam itself, properly interpreted, and they argue that no other label is required.

Pertinacious – Someone who is stubbornly unyielding.
Sentence : Whatever I did, that idea would bother me: it was so tiresomely pertinacious that I resolved on requesting leave to go to Wuthering Heights, and assist in the last duties to the dead.

Phlegmatic – Expressing little or no emotion
Sentence : We stopped believing in the four humours, but we remain bilious, choleric, sanguine and phlegmatic.

Promulgate – To broadcast or announce
Sentence : Freedoms may also be suspended by Emergency Regulations promulgated by the Privy Council during a national emergency.

Quotidian – Something that is of daily occurrence
Sentence : Gourmands who swore by New York strip are now singing the praises of the more quotidian hanger steak.
IELTS Vocabulary

IELTS Vocabulary