IELTS Vocabulary
Previous – happening or existing before something or someone else.
Sentence – His time for the 100 metres surpassed the previous world record by one hundredth of a second.
Exactly – used when you are giving or asking for information that is completely correct.
Sentence – Though John and Andrew look exactly alike, they act quite differently.
Mistrust – to have doubts about the honesty or abilities of someone.
Sentence – There is still considerable mistrust between the management and the workforce.
Early – near the beginning of a period of time, or before the usual, expected, or planned time
Sentence – Let early education be a sort of a musement; you will then be bette able to find out the natural bent.
Untimely – Something bad that is untimely happens unexpectedly early or at a time that is not suitable.
Sentence – The untimely death of his father did nothing to alter the youngest Charlton’s ambition.
Antagonize – to make someone dislike you or feel opposed to you.
Sentence – Aggressive and premature pursuit of this information may antagonize the wholesaler and poison the relationship.
Citation – a word or piece of writing taken from a written work.
Sentence – So what of the other reasons for rejecting citation analysis as a help in deciding where the money should go?
Naughty – When children are naughty, or their behaviour is naughty, they behave badly or do not do what they are told to do.
Sentence – He who has ability to be such a naughty guy and can be stronger more as well.
Huge – extremely large in size or amount.
Sentence – A huge bomb blast rocked central London last night.
Hole – an empty space in an object, usually with an opening to the object’s surface, or an opening that goes completely through an object.
Sentence – If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth, but, if poor, it is not so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find it less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat.
Magnify – to make something look larger than it is, especially by looking at it through a lens.
Sentence – Reflectional visible light sensor that can magnify the intensity of reflectional light by Darlington transistor is adopted in the sensor module.
Immune – protected against a particular disease by particular substances in the blood.
Sentence – Most people who’ve had chicken pox once are immune to it for the rest of their lives.
Mourn – to feel or express great sadness, especially because of someone’s death.
Sentence – Although their families still mourn their loss, they have tried to put their grief behind them and rebuild their lives.
Ban – to forbid (= refuse to allow) something, especially officially.
Sentence – The protesters showed their defiance of the official ban on demonstrations.
Infrequent – not happening very often.
Sentence – Such entreaties to passing travellers were not infrequent in lonely country at the time.
Spontaneous – happening or done in a natural, often sudden way, without any planning or without being forced.
Sentence – Diana’s house was crowded with happy people whose spontaneous outbursts of song were accompanied by lively music.
To cite – to mention something as proof for a theory or as a reason why something has happened.
Sentence – They cite numbers and percentages of casualties, they give names of comrades who lost eyesight and limbs.
Uncooked – not having been cooked.
Sentence – Reasonable texture and bland, if slightly uncooked, taste. Whole meal flour contains whole wheat grain with nothing taken out.
