Vocabulary for IELTS
Supportive showing agreement and giving encouragement.
Sentence – No supportive words could ever compensate for the pain of being separated from her children for 10 years.
Cheerful Having a happy or pleasant personality.
Sentence – We will miss him as a worker amongst us and also as a cheerful friend who could always brighten the day around here.
Ambitious having a strong wish to be successful, powerful, or rich
Sentence – I can tell that you’re an ambitious man.
Outgoing (of a person) friendly and energetic and finding it easy and enjoyable to be with others.
Sentence – No party won an absolute majority and the outgoing government remained in office in a caretaker capacity as inter-party negotiations took place.
Considerate Having a kind and thoughtful personality.
Sentence – It stands to reason that if you are considerate and friendly to people you will get a lot more back.
Confident being certain of your abilities or having trust in people, plans, or the future.
Sentence – Be confident with yourself and stop worrying what other people think. Do what’s best for your future happiness.
Adventurous Someone who likes to try new and daring things
Sentence – The menu contained traditional favourites as well as more adventurous dishes.
Pessimistic thinking that bad things are more likely to happen or emphasizing the bad part of a situation.
Sentence – Had they kept the epidemiology of leprosy in mind, the picture they obtained might have been less pessimistic.
Rude not polite; offensive or embarrassing.
Sentence – Nothing can possibly excuse him for such rude behavior.
Insensitive not feeling or showing sympathy for other people’s feelings, or refusing to give importance to something.
Sentence – I don’t want to be thought insensitive, but I do think we should go ahead despite the accident.
Stingy unwilling to spend money; small in amount.
Sentence – Corporations no longer brag about their generous benefits; instead they take pride in offering stingy benefits and low wages.
Deceitful (an act of) keeping the truth hidden, especially to get an advantage.
Sentence – The wilfulness of human nature can be deceitful, and we can hang on to old ways like cherished thoughts or possessions.
Arrogant unpleasantly proud and behaving as if you are more important than, or know more than, other people.
Sentence – Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude.
Bad-tempered A bad-tempered person becomes angry and annoyed easily.
Sentence – I’m sorry I’ve been so bad-tempered lately. Anyway, thank you for being so understanding.
Blandishment : pleasant words or actions used in order to persuade someone to do something.
Sentence – Under no circumstances must he lent himself to any additional blandishment or languishment’s in this field.
Cajole : to persuade someone to do something they might not want to do, by pleasant talk and (sometimes false) promises.
Sentence – Dealing managers and team leaders shout at, cajole and entice their dealers into selling large quantities of stock.
Callous : unkind, cruel, and without sympathy or feeling for other people
Sentence – He is often very callous to Lennie and is constantly reminding him what his life could be like without Lennie.
manslaughter the crime of killing a person when the killer did not intend to do it or cannot be responsible for his or her actions.
Sentence – He denies murder but admits manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
hacking the activity of using a computer to access information stored on another computer system without permission, or to spread a computer virus.
Sentence – This examines hacking and computer crime cases simply to gain experience and hopefully prevent future violations.
