Vocabulary For IELTS

Callous – unkind, cruel, and without sympathy or feeling for other people

Sentence – Why should we the people trust such callous nuclear establishment in our country?

Emulate – to copy something achieved by someone else and try to do it as well as they have

Sentence – Artificial intelligence can now emulate human behaviors- soon it will be dangerously good.

Finite – having a limit or end

Sentence – The funds available for the health service are finite and we cannot afford to waste money.

Laud – to praise

Sentence – It was lauded by the industry but condemned as insufficient by some security experts and victims’ advocates, including Cummock.

Nocturnal – being active or happening at night rather than during the day

Sentence – Prosimians, such as the nocturnal mouse lemur of Madagascan forests, feed on invertebrates and are active at night.

Noxious – Something, especially a gas or other substance, that is noxious is poisonous or very harmful

Sentence – Models of mucosal damage in which a noxious agent such as ethanol is employed are simply not relevant to chronic duodenal ulcer.

Recant – to announce in public that your past beliefs or statements were wrong and that you no longer agree with them

Sentence – She also testified that Irvin had terrorized her in an effort to make her recant her testimony against him.

Agony – extreme physical or mental pain or suffering

Sentence – There I was writhing in agony on the floor and you lot were pissing yourselves laughing!

Allege – to say that someone has done something illegal or wrong without giving proof

Sentence – The lawsuit would likely allege that Symington got the loan because he deliberately misled the pension funds about his financial condition.

Caricature – (the art of making) a drawing or written or spoken description of someone that usually makes them look silly by making part of their appearance or character more noticeable than it really is

Sentence – He made caricatures and political cartoons on various subjects and issues.

Disperse – to spread across or move away over a large area, or to make something do this

Sentence – Riot police fired in the air and lashed out with clubs to disperse hundreds of demonstrators.

Incite – to encourage someone to do or feel something unpleasant or violent

Sentence – Thus the mullahs can legitimately incite revolution, and since the seventh century they have done so.

Polarize – to cause something, especially something that contains different people or opinions, to divide into two completely opposing groups.

Sentence – Increasingly, Labour and Conservative support has become polarized between North and South and between urban and rural areas.

Precipitate – to make something happen suddenly or sooner than expected

Sentence – Food allergy does not cause eczema, but may precipitate or exacerbate the condition.

Sanction – an official order, such as the stopping of trade, that is taken against a country in order to make it obey international law

Sentence – No decision can be taken without the sanction of the complete committee.

Commemorate – to remember officially and give respect to a great person or event, especially by a public ceremony or by making a statue or special building

Sentence – Gathered all together in this church, we commemorate those who lost their lives in the great war.