Vocabulary for IELTS – Part 72

Moisture – a liquid such as water in the form of very small drops, either in the air, in a substance, or on a surface.

Sentence – Plants absorb carbon dioxide from the air and moisture from the soil.

Mock – to laugh at someone, often by copying them in a funny but unkind way.

Sentence – The army training exercises ended with a mock battle.

Complaint – a statement that something is wrong or not satisfactory.

Sentence – The policeman was suspended while the complaint was investigated.

Boar – a male pig kept for breeding on a farm, or a type of wild pig

Sentence – Populations of red deer and boar are believed to be under greater pressure from hunters due to wartime shortages.

Beneficial – helpful, useful, or good.

Sentence – While a moderate amount of stress can be beneficial, too much stress can exhaust you.

Omit – to fail to include or do something.

Sentence – We decided to omit the recitatives because, quite frankly, they are not very interesting.

Conduct – to organize and perform a particular activity.

Sentence – Every neighborhood should conduct regular tree plantation activities.

Publish – to make information available to people, especially in a book, magazine, or newspaper, or to produce and sell a book, magazine, or newspaper.

Sentence – The press should be free to publish and comment on all aspects of political and social life.

 Investigate – to examine a crime, problem, statement, etc. carefully, especially to discover the truth.

Sentence – The government have set up/established a commission to investigate the problem of inner city violence.

Complete – to make whole or perfect.

Sentence – You wanted to complete your education.

Occur – (especially of accidents and other unexpected events) to happen.

Sentence – As age increases, changes occur in the body.

Tolerate – to accept behaviour and beliefs that are different from your own, although you might not agree with or approve of them.

Sentence – The harass-ment had become too much to tolerate and he decided to move out.

Discover – to find information, a place, or an object, especially for the first time.

Sentence – Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore.

Eradicate – to get rid of something completely or destroy something bad.

Sentence – They are already battling to eradicate illnesses such as malaria and tetanus.

Rise – to move upwards.

Sentence – Wherever in the world a people knows desperate want, there must appear at least the spark of hope, the hope of progress–or there will surely rise at last the flames of conflict.

Maintain – to continue to have; to keep in existence, or not allow to become less.

Sentence – Only by keeping down costs will America maintain its competitive advantage over other countries.

Select – to choose a small number of things, or to choose by making careful decisions.

Sentence – It is important to select a software package that suits your requirements.

Resume – If an activity resumes, or if you resume it, it starts again after a pause.

Sentence – The Supreme Council resolved to resume control over the national press.

Exhaust – to make someone extremely tired.

Sentence – Her husband ran a pipe from her car exhaust to the bedroom in an attempt to gas her.

Communicate – to shareinformation with others by speaking, writing, moving your body, or using other signals.

Sentence – Communicate to your clients a fair cancellation policy.