IELTS Vocabulary

Flight deck – the part of an aircraft where the pilot sits and where the controls are

Sentence – The complicated flow on flight deck influences flight safety seriously when helicopters and take – off from – aviation ship.

Gate – a part of an airport where travellers are allowed to get on or off a particular aircraft.

Sentence – The sentry defended the gate against sudden attack.

Itinerary – a detailed plan or route of a journey.

Sentence – For those who want a less strenuous itinerary, there is an alternate touring and shopping plan for these few days.

Jet engine – a very powerful engine. When fuel is burned inside the engine, hot air and gases are produced and then pushed out of the back of the engine at high speed, forcing the engine forward.

Sentence – Although Germany had produced a jet fighter it was Frank Whittle of the R.A.F.who had invented the jet engine and patented it as early as 1930.

Jet lag – the feeling of tiredness and confusion that people experience after making a long journey by plane to a place where the time is different from the place they left.

Sentence – A new discovery of a “mealtime clock” in our brains suggests that a short fast from eating could allow people to cope with jet lag and nightshift grogginess.

Jumbo jet – a very large aircraft that can carry a lot of people.

Sentence – Dios says it is the world’s first jumbo jet hostel, an actual jetplane at Sweden’s main airport outside Stockholm which has been changed into a 25-room guesthouse that sleeps as many as 72 people.

Landing – the fact of an aircraft arriving on the ground or a boat reaching land.

Sentence – This is your captain speaking. We expect to be landing at London Heathrow in an hour’s time.

Lavatory – a room equipped with a toilet and sink.

Sentence – I told him about the lavatory on the entrance floor, which did for the fourteen tenants in the house.

One-way – travelling or allowing travel in only one direction.

Sentence – Xeurons are normally one-way streets, but occasionally they can be forced into working backward.

Overbook – to sell more tickets or places for an aircraft, holiday, etc. than are available.

Sentence – Planes are crowded, airlines overbook, and departures are almost never on time.

Oxygen mask – a piece of equipment that can be put over a person’s nose and mouth to supply them with oxygen.

Sentence – They coaxed everything from pygmy mice to snakes to cheetahs into running on a treadmill while wearing an oxygen mask.

Appreciate – to recognize how good someone or something is and to value him, her, or it.

Sentence – The happiest are not those who own all the best things, but those who can appreciate the beauty of life.

Bankrupt – unable to pay what you owe, and having had control of your financial matters given, by a law court, to a person who sells your property to pay your debts.

Sentence – The company went bankrupt and was put into the hands of the receivers.