IELTS Vocabulary
Dependence – the situation in which you need something or someone all the time, especially in order to continue existing or operating.
Sentence – The company needs to reduce its dependence on just one particular product.
Depression – the state of feeling very unhappy and without hope for the future.
Sentence – One day depression descended upon him, and wherever he went after that he could never throw it off.
Desire – to want something, especially strongly.
Sentence – It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man’s self.
Disappointment – the feeling of being disappointed.
Sentence – There was disappointment for our trio of 200 metre runners, all of whom failed to reach the final.
Dislike – to not like someone or something.
Sentence – Once you start to dislike someone.Everything they do begins to annoy you.
Abstract – existing as an idea, feeling, or quality, not as a material object.
Sentence – Mathematics is concerned essentially with understanding abstract concepts.
Analogy – a comparison between things that have similar features, often used to help explain a principle or idea.
Sentence – He argued, using a physical analogy, that perpendicular rays were stronger than oblique rays.
Assignment – a piece of work given to someone, typically as part of their studies or job.
Sentence – You can go to Hongkong with us so long as you finish your assignment before Friday.
Audience – the group of people together in one place to watch or listen to a play, film, someone speaking, etc..
Sentence – The audience clapped enthusiastically and called for more.
Bibliography – a list of the books and articles that have been used by someone when writing a particular book or article.
Sentence – I started compiling an annotated bibliography of the philosophy of mind when I was a graduate student learning the ropes.
Citation – a word or piece of writing taken from a written work.
Sentence – Lindsey also finds that citation counts favour the scientist doing work in the mainstream or dominant paradigm.
Clarify – to make something clear or easier to understand by giving more details or a simpler explanation.
Sentence – Just for the record I would like to clarify something my colleague said earlier.
Coherent – If an argument, set of ideas, or a plan is coherent, it is clear and carefully considered, and each part of it connects or follows in a natural or reasonable way.
Sentence – Without a coherent set of policies to persuade the electorate, the Republicans have resorted to sloganeering and empty rhetoric.
Compare – to examine or look for the difference between two or more things.
Sentence – Statistical anomalies can make it difficult to compare economic data from one year to the next.
Conclusion – the final part of something.
Sentence – I will let you know about it as soon as we come to any conclusion.
Contrast – anobvious difference between two or more things.
Sentence – The poverty of her childhood stands in total contrast to her life in Hollywood.
Document – a paper or set of papers with written or printed information, especially of an official type.
Sentence – In Post Offices, virtually every document that’s passed across the counter is stamped with a rubber stamp.
Draft – a piece of text, a formal suggestion, or a drawing in its original state, often containing the main ideas and intentions but not the developed form.
Sentence – They presented their draft to the president, who looked it over, nodded and signed it.
Edit – to make changes to a text or film, deciding what will be removed and what will be kept in, in order to prepare it for being printed or shown.
Sentence – The combined package with the basic function of Photoshop Version 2.5, enables users to input and edit images with their computer.
