IELTS Vocabulary
Arrive – to reach a place, especially at the end of a journey.
Sentence – Please make every endeavour to arrive punctually.
Dark – with little or no light.
Sentence – The thief slunk down the dark alley.
Unlawful – not allowed by law.
Sentence – The lawyer was disbarred from practice when he was round guilty of unlawful acts.
Knowingly – in a way that shows you know about something.
Sentence – If any employee knowingly breaks the terms of this contract they will be dismissed immediately.
Moderately – in a way that is neither small nor large in size, amount, degree, or strength.
Sentence – An established hebe may survive all but the worst winters, but a young plant may succumb to moderately severe weather.
Insurgent – someone who is fighting against the government in their own country.
Sentence – There are also two insurgent factions in the game, to let you play as the rebels.
Uprising – an act of opposition, sometimes using violence, by many people in one area of a country against those who are in power.
Sentence – Isolated attacks in the north-east of the country have now turned into a full-scale uprising.
Clerk – a person who works in an office, dealing with records or performing general office duties.
Sentence – The bank manager was really to blame, though he tried to pin it on a clerk.
Miserable – very unhappy.
Sentence – We mustn’t fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
Curative – able to cure or cause to get better.
Sentence – This also applied to the subgroup with a curative tumour resection and is in accordance with other studies that used preoperative radiotherapy.
Equity – the value of a company, divided into many equal parts owned by the shareholders, or one of the equal parts into which the value of a company is divided.
Sentence – A natural endowment approach to equity would direct policy towards the gifted, who are better able to benefit from the policy.
Immature – not behaving in a way that is as calm and wise as people expect from someone of your age.
Sentence – If the child is immature, the solicitor must decide whether disclosure without consent is justified on public interest grounds.
Artful – clever and skilful, especially in getting what you want.
Sentence – Young people from welfare-dependent single-parent families just aren’t artful dodgers ready to graduate into serious crime and a moral vacuum.
Practically – almost or very nearly.
Sentence – There is a place in London that supplies practically everything for left-handed people.
Conscious – aware.
Sentence – The invading force, conscious of their numerical inferiority at sea, decided on an airborne attack.
Apparent – able to be seen or understood.
Sentence – How do you explain the apparent discrepancies between the money and the receipts?
Crook – a very dishonest person, especially a criminal or a cheat.
Sentence – The voice on the line was vaguely familiar, but Crook couldn’t place it at first.
Unvoiced – voiceless.
Sentence – When you have a word ending in an unvoiced consonant, you will notice that the preceding vowel is said quite quickly.
Negligent – not being careful or giving enough attention to people or things that are your responsibility.
Sentence – Prosecutors have said that possible charges include negligent homicide, involuntary manslaughter and second-degree murder.
To differentiate – to show or find the difference between things that are compared.
Sentence – It is wrong to differentiate between people according to their family background.
Inferior – not good, or not as good as someone or something else.
Sentence – If children were made to feel inferior to other children their confidence declined.