Vocabulary for IELTS
Delicate – needing careful treatment, especially because easily damaged.
Sentence – Large dams have harmed Siberia’s delicate ecological balance.
Dull – not interesting or exciting in any way.
Sentence – The house was dull, old-fashioned and in bad condition.
Dawn – the period in the day when light from the sun begins to appear in the sky.
Sentence – The cock crows and the dawn chorus begins.
About – approximately.
Sentence – The tower is about 25 feet high.
To hawk – to peddle.
Sentence – Itinerant peddlers positioned themselves along the roadside to hawk their pewter, copper, and tin.
Constantly – all the time or often.
Sentence – I was working all hours and constantly fretting about everyone else’s problems.
To overlook – to provide a view of, especially from above.
Sentence – She was generous enough to overlook my little mistake.
Barren – unable to produce plants or fruit.
Sentence – That’s probably the most bare, bleak, barren and inhospitable island I’ve ever seen.
Merciless – having or showing no mercy.
Sentence – In court, he was accused of being a merciless predator who had tricked his grandmother out of her savings.
Bizarre – very strange and unusual.
Sentence – In a bizarre twist to the evening the police came at eleven and arrested our host.
Continuous – without a pause or interruption
Sentence – Will we at last forget ourselves result from the continuous affectation.
Maximum – being the largest amount or number allowed or possible.
Sentence – Under planning law the maximum height for a fence or hedge is 2 metres.
To mirror – to reflect.
Sentence – And among the primary vehicles families use to mirror us to ourselves are the family stories we hear about ourselves.
Commencement – the beginning of something.
Sentence – The election avoids the cessation and commencement bases applying in assessing profits to tax when a person leaves or joins a partnership.
Dumb – unable to speak.
Sentence – She’s been dumb from birth.
Usually – normal; happening, done, or used most often.
Sentence – Money is not the root of all eviles as is usually claimed, what is the root of all evils is the lust for money, that is the excessive, selfish and greedy pusuit of money.
Becoming – used to say that something is attractive and suits the person wearing or doing it.
Sentence – The club’s constitution prevented women from becoming full members.
Concord – agreement and peace between countries and people.
Sentence – The difference is that concord particles precede the verb, whereas-5 is an inflectional suffix on the verb.
Always – every time or all the time.
Sentence – Optimists always picture themselves accomplishing their goals.
Bashful – often feeling uncomfortable with other people and easily embarrassed.
Sentence – Women should also remember that many men are bashful about discussing their feelings out in the open.
Soiled – dirty.
Sentence – Clothing and sheets soiled with blood and other body fluids should be washed in a machine at a high temperature setting.
Daring – brave and taking risks
Sentence – Something approaching a lynch mob has been gathering against the Chancellor for even daring to consider higher interest rates.
To expire – If something that lasts for a fixed length of time expires, it comes to an end or stops being in use.
Sentence – The authority will expire at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held in 1994.
Insufficient – inadequate.
Sentence – His injuries have returned as there was insufficient recovery time between matches.
Signal – an action, movement, or sound that gives information, a message, a warning, or an order.
Sentence – Our fax machine differentiates between an incoming fax signal and a voice call.
Foolish – unwise, stupid, or not showing good judgment.
Sentence – One cannot do a foolish thing once in one’s life, but one must hear of it a hundred times.
