Vocabulary for IELTS
Prestige – respect and admiration given to someone or something, usually because of a reputation for high quality, success, or social influence.
Sentence – His prestige has been raised greatly since he was promoted to the president of the university.
Principle – a basic idea or rule that explains or controls how something happens or works.
Sentence – Political correctness is the principle of avoiding language or behaviour that may offend certain groups of people.
Prohibit – to officially refuse to allow something.
Sentence – Incongruities prohibit constructing a unified picture of anything we could call Orphism.
Proceed – to continue as planned.
Sentence – He left detailed instructions about the best way to proceed.
Proclivity – the fact that someone likes something or likes to do something, especially something considered morally wrong
Sentence – This proclivity hinders their ability to respond effectively to challenges.
Procure – to get something, especially after an effort.
Sentence – It remained very difficult to procure food, fuel and other daily necessities.
Procrastinate – to keep delaying something that must be done, often because it is unpleasant or boring.
Sentence – While the inclination to procrastinate is common, one must fully consider the detrimental impact of unnecessary delays.
Prognostication – a judgment or the act of making a judgment about what is likely to happen in the future.
Sentence – Proponents of the changes did, however, find the prognostications of their adversaries far too pessimistic and polemical.
Prohibitive – Ifthe cost of something is prohibitive, it is too expensive for most people.
Sentence – Today the cost seems utterly prohibitive, and Washington and Oregon would probably resist the engineers with tanks.
Proliferation – to increase a lot and suddenly in number.
Sentence – This indicates that the stimulation of cell proliferation may not be the only factor in ulcer healing by sucralfate.
Protectorate – a country that is generally controlled and defended by a more powerful country.
Sentence – The abnormality of these grants in the context of the protectorate is not, however, only a matter of scale.
Provisional – for the present time but likely to change.
Sentence – These tracheoles may be termed the larval or provisional tracheoles, and they extend in bundles into the developing lacunae.
Proximity – the state of being near in space or time.
Sentence – There are many reasons for rejecting physical proximity.
Qualitative – relating to how good or bad something is.
Sentence – The most important thing at every stage is qualitative changes.
Reaffirm – to give your support to a person, plan, idea, etc. for a second time; to state something as true again.
Sentence – The participating States reaffirm that freedom of expression is a human right and a basic component of a democratic society.
Rash – a lot of small red spots on the skin.
Sentence – That was a rash decision – you didn’t think about the costs involved.
Reciprocal – A reciprocal action or arrangement involves two people or groups of people who behave in the same way or agree to help each other and give each other advantages.
Sentence – The reciprocal relationship embodies two-way communication, with each open to be influenced by the other.
Refinement – the process of making a substance pure.
Sentence – The word ‘lady’ has connotations of refinement and excessive femininity that some women find offensive.
Refurbish – to make a building look new again by doing work such as painting, repairing, and cleaning.
Sentence – Our empty shipyards cannot refurbish our cruise liners to the same time-scale as overworked but competitive foreign yards.
