IELTS Vocabulary Part – 216

Capricious – changing mood or behaviour suddenly and unexpectedly.

Sentence – For instance, if environmental changes are capricious, the animal’s migration viewed in isolation will also be capricious.

Clemency – kindness when giving a punishment.

Sentence – He battles to find cause for clemency, defying the political establishment, which wants Cindy executed.

Cogent – Acogent argument, reason, etc. is clearly expressed and persuades people to believe it.

Sentence – Defence could muster cogent arguments to maintain an unusually high level of expenditure.

Concomitant – something that happens with something else and is connected with it.

Sentence – Nature has been banished, technology and its concomitant values reign over a harshly masculine world.

Conflagration – a large fire that causes a lot of damage.

Sentence – Any good ante-bellum history will detail the stupidities that led to this utterly needless conflagration.

Conundrum – a problem that is difficult to deal with.

Sentence – This poses a conundrum for businesses leaders wanting to take advantage of, for example, the Research and Development tax credit.

Credulity – willingness to believe that something is real or true, especially when this is unlikely.

Sentence – When too energetic and predominant, it disposes of Credulity, and in mercantile men, leads to rash and inconsiderate speculation.

Cupidity – a strong feeling of wanting to have something, especially money or possessions.

Sentence – This text has mainly analysed and improved on DIJKSTRA arithmatic to apply cupidity arithmatic.

Cursory – quick and probably not detailed.

Sentence – A cursory glance at the literature in this field reveals the importance of suspicions concerning gossiping groups of women.

Decry – tocriticize something as bad, without value, or unnecessary.

Sentence – Prof Wilkinson points out that the international community might not decry unilateralist intervention provided that it approves of the outcome.

Defile – to spoil something or someone so that that thing or person is less beautiful or pure.

Sentence – The narrow defile which had once been bridged by the Romans was now dammed to create a vast reservoir upstream.

Deleterious – harmful.

Sentence – To date, such monitoring has not revealed any deleterious effects from the limited number of organisms which have been released.

Demure – (especially of women) quiet and well behaved.

Sentence – But the demure look toward the floor, the disclaimer with the hands often as not look faked when seen.

Deprecate – to not approve of something or say that you do not approve of something.

Sentence – As a lawyer, I would deprecate any sort of legal control on gene therapy at this stage.

Deride – to laugh at someone or something in a way that shows you think they are stupid or of no value.

Sentence – Ignore anyone who tries to convince you that either option is without flaw or would deride you for choosing either.

Desecrate – to damage or show no respect towards something holy or very much respected.

Sentence – Protestant rioters desecrated Hailsham parish church in 1559, and the old practices were driven steadily underground.

Discursive – involving discussion.

Sentence – The text can be highly discursive and reads like a series of points rather randomly formed into short paragraphs.

Dissemble – tohide your real intentions and feelings or the facts.

Sentence – She had, as far as he knew, no reason to be curious, and therefore no reason to dissemble her curiosity.

Ebullient – very energetic, positive, and happy.

Sentence – Getting into the precarious cable car, the ebullient engineer had himself hauled to the far side and back again.