Vocabulary for IELTS
Lured: tempt (a person or animal) to do something or to go somewhere, especially by offering some form of reward.
Sentence – The prosecution alleged that he lured the officer to his death by making an emergency call.
Bang for one’s buck: worth of one’s money or exertion.
Sentence – If you get more bang for your buck(s), you get a better result for the amount of effort or money that you have put into something.
Cumbersome: large or heavy and therefore difficult to carry or use; unwieldy.
Sentence – Our Intelligence Service was untrained, cumbersome, and almost wholly ineffectual.
Eternal: lasting or existing forever; without end.
Sentence – Some people, need deep and eternal remember. And some people, and need to work hard to forget.
Belligerence: aggressive or warlike behaviour.
Sentence – A single incident suggests a great deal about Hennepinhis prudery, his belligerence, his sensitivity.
Acclimatised to: become accustomed to a new climate or new conditions; adjust.
Sentence – Many walkers, particularly Brits, prefer to start in the south, reaching the more spectacular northern half when acclimatised.
Cripple: cause (someone) to become unable to walk or move properly.
Sentence – There’s only one way you can cripple a bad scientist, and that’s to demonstrate how bad his science is.
Disentangle: free (something or someone) from something that they are entangled with.
Sentence – It’s very difficult to disentangle fact from fiction in what she’s saying.
Freight: goods transported in bulk by truck, train, ship, or aircraft.
Sentence – Environmental pressures are strengthening the case for waterborne freight.
Decamp: leave a place suddenly or secretly.
Sentence – Youngsters decamp as soon as they can to work in towns near and far, leaving their ageing parents to till the soil.
Affluent: (especially of a group or area) having a great deal of money; wealthy.
Sentence – The affluent viewers who watch financial news are highly prized by advertisers.
Congregation: a group of people assembled for religious worship.
Sentence – Most members of the congregation begin arriving a few minutes before services.
Attenuate: reduce the force, effect, or value of.
Sentence – co-administration of Shuanghuanglian injection and Sanhuang capsule could attenuate the postoperative adhesion.
Lingering: lasting for a long time or slow to end.
Sentence – The defeat ends any lingering hopes she might have had of winning the championship.
Backlash: a strong negative reaction by a large number of people, especially to a social or political development.
Sentence – The backlash is awaited with interest by everyone, even those with only a passing interest in the music scene.
Recklessly: showing a lack of care about risks or danger, and acting without thinking about the results of your actions.
Sentence – If the enemy ignites war recklessly, we shall resolutely answer it with war and completely destroy the aggressors.
Doomsayer: a person who predicts disaster.
Sentence – Despite the doomsayers, the Athenians delivered the Olympic Games when they said they would.
Battering: violent physical abuse that usually involves the act of striking someone repeatedly or heavily in order to cause injury.
Sentence – Sterling took a battering yesterday as worries grew about the state of Britain’s economy.
Vulnerable: exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally; at risk; endangered.
Sentence – Babies are weak and vulnerable in the presence of huge shapes that they can only dimly perceive.
Holistic: means encompassing the whole of a thing, and not just the part.
Sentence – The second axiom of holistic medicine is that each person is unique and each program must be individualized.
Disavowal: the action of saying that you know nothing about something, or that you have no responsibility for or connection with something.
Sentence – Of course, Freud’s disavowal of his Jewishness may help to explain the fog surrounding the issue: Was he or was he not well versed in Jewish tradition?
