IELTS Vocabulary Part – 214

Misunderstand – to think you have understood someone or something when you have not.

Sentence – If you think that these transport problems can be solved by building more roads, you completely misunderstand the nature of the problem.

Consign – to send something to someone.

Sentence – A study of women writers can easily lose sight of broader literary relations, and inadvertently consign its subjects to a ghetto.

Noxious – Something, especially a gas or other substance, that is noxious is poisonous or very harmful.

Sentence – Models of mucosal damage in which a noxious agent such as ethanol is employed are simply not relevant to chronic duodenal ulcer.

Countryman – a man or person from your own country.

Sentence – He was an old countryman with a betel-ravaged mouth, the cancerous tongue sticking helplessly out like a crimson prickly pear.

Venom – a poisonous liquid that some snakes, insects, etc. produce and can put into another animal’s body by biting or stinging.

Sentence – These two lizards use their venom to kill their prey, which comprises small mammals such as mice and birds.

Gregarious – (of people) liking to be with other people.

Sentence – Colleagues call the former Democratic deputy whip gregarious and determined; he is a leading figure in the Latino world.

Virulent – A virulent disease or poison is dangerous and spreads or affects people very quickly.

Sentence – He had developed a vaccine using virulent forms of polio that were then killed with formaldehyde and injected.

Contagious – A contagious disease can be caught by touching someone who has the disease or a piece of infected clothing.

Sentence – The belief in Hawaii that leprosy was contagious was accompanied by the thought that the disease might be communicated through vaccination.

Invaluable – extremely useful.

Sentence – No doubt he’d been looking forward to the wedding ever since it was announced, as an invaluable chance to cut a figure and do some good public relations work.

Discolor – to (cause something to) change from the original color and therefore to look unpleasant.

Sentence – The corn protein foam powder was prepared by using corn gluten powder as the main material through the deliquescence of amylase, hydrolysis, discolor, deodorizing and drying.

Prevalent – existing very commonly or happening often.

Sentence – It explodes the myth prevalent among pupils at school that history graduates mainly become history teachers.

Archetype – a typical example of something, or the original model of something from which others are copied.

Sentence – The motivated, well-trained immigrant was not a subgroup of students but an archetype of all students.

Counterpart – a person or thing that has the same purpose as another one in a different place or organization.

Sentence – Ask his London counterpart about private cash and she talks, without irony, of the proceeds from donation boxes.

Abrupt – sudden and unexpected, and often unpleasant.

Sentence – Buyers have withdrawn from the market in view of the abrupt turn of the trend of prices.