IELTS Vocabulary Part – 220

Inexorable – continuing without any possibility of being stopped.

Sentence – The directive signals an inexorable process towards liberalization, but with many details left open and implications poorly understood

Ingenuous – honest, sincere, and trusting, sometimes in a way that seems silly.

Sentence – I wrote to him an ingenuous letter of acknowledgment , craving his forbearance a little longer.

Inimical – harmful or limiting.

Sentence – This separation creates inevitable tensions between the team and the consultant, which are inimical to good multidisciplinary work.

Iniquity – a very wrong and unfair action or situation.

Sentence – Well we’ve got them here now and they’re after building a den of iniquity on top of your Imperial Roman artefacts.

Insidious – (of something unpleasant or dangerous) gradually and secretly causing harm.

Sentence – Employee advocates argue that the policies are an insidious way for companies to take away statutory rights that Congress granted workers.

Inure – If you become inured to something unpleasant, you become familiar with it and able to accept and bear it.

Sentence – As the application of the transgenic technology, oil content of rapeseed is increasing more and inure.

Invective – criticism that is very forceful, unkind, and often rude.

Sentence – Most countries would prefer to do without the smut and the anti-government invective, but none wants to risk being left out.

Inveterate – someone who does something very often and cannot stop doing it.

Sentence – For inveterate cattle-lifters it all added up to a convenient no-man’s-land across which to launch thieving raids.

Jubilant – feeling or expressing great happiness, especially because of a success.

Sentence – His advice went unheeded by the jubilant Khatami supporters who went into the streets to celebrate after the election last week.

Juxtaposition – to put things that are not similar next to each other.

Sentence – The traditional museum disciplines of juxtaposition, analysis and interpretation were reduced to the minimum; experience was paramount.

Laconic – using very few words to express what you mean.

Sentence – But there was nothing laconic about his mind, which was known to tick over like a well-oiled clock.

Languid – moving or speaking slowly with little energy, often in an attractive way.

Sentence – His attitude to those languid undergraduates at Bridget’s party, and to writers, was not a conventionally masculine one.

Largess – willingness to give money, or money given to poor people by rich people.

Sentence – But he said there was unlikely to be much strategy for use of the sports stadiums beyond putting on a good show and demonstrating wealth and largess to the outside world.

Latent – present but needing particular conditions to become active, obvious, or completely developed.

Sentence – Everyone has that latent power within him, although most of us never make use of it throughout our lives.

Legerdemain – skilful hiding of the truth in order to trick people.

Sentence – And vital to rapid deployment, most applications can be completely oblivious to this background legerdemain.

Licentious – (especially of a person or their behaviour) sexual in an uncontrolled and socially unacceptable way.

Sentence – The lips were more sensuous than the original, almost licentious.

Limpid – clear and transparent.

Sentence – Limpid dew on them, trumpet-shaped petals with purple and white glowed with the freshness and grace.

Maelstrom – a situation in which there is great confusion, violence, and destruction.

Sentence – Into the Maelstrom For decades the rapids of Niagara were overshadowed by the presence of the thundering cataract.

Magnanimous – very kind and generous towards an enemy or someone you have defeated.

Sentence – When they were feeling more magnanimous, the new managers defined administration as a secondary, yet essential, managerial function.