Vocabulary For IELTS
impetuous: likely to do something suddenly, without considering the results of your actions.
Sentence – Powell felt both clubs were impetuous buys which Virgin could ill-afford at a time when it was struggling out of recession.
impute: to say that someone is responsible for something that has happened, especially something bad, or that something is the cause of something else.
Sentence – In all these cases, it is necessary to impute – to determine a charge for – the products provided.
inconsequential: without consequence, trivial, doesn’t matter.
Sentence – Nor were they inconsequential gossip and rumor being whispered by small-town idlers on local street corners.
inevitable: certain to happen and unable to be avoided or prevented.
Sentence – Tourists keep coming here, so it is inevitable that things should be expensive here.
intrepid: extremely brave and showing no fear of dangerous situations.
Sentence – Now thirty-five intrepid Lionisers were gazing at the outside of the small single-fronted cottage with its tiny parlour overlooking the street.
intuitive: based on feelings rather than facts or proof.
Sentence – The importance of intuitive mythologies is that they make available a language for public discussion and for the individual learning-experience.
jubilation: a feeling of great happiness, especially because of a success.
Sentence – During a day of extraordinary jubilation, more than 100,000 people poured through the increasingly open border to the West.
lobbyist: someone who tries to persuade a politician or official group to do something.
Sentence – Indeed, there are times when the lobbyist will act more out of loyalty to his network than to his client.
longevity: living for a long time.
Sentence – There is an 11-year difference in longevity between babies born in the richest and the poorest postcodes in Britain.
mundane: very ordinary and therefore not interesting.
Sentence – Couldn’t you place the bends on mundane stretches of the road and leave the spectacular views cleared for observation and enjoyment?
nonchalant: behaving in a calm manner, often in a way that suggests you are not interested or do not care.
Sentence – He looked nonchalant enough as he strolled along the Bayswater Road, but inwardly Creed was a mess of nerves.
opulent: expensive and luxurious.
Sentence – The Castle of Augustusburg is the opulent residence of the prince-archbishops of Cologne while the Castle of Falkenlust is a hunting lodge.
orator: someone who is good at public speaking.
Sentence – On the other hand Osman was a practised orator and knew what he was doing.
ostentatious: too obviously showing your money, possessions, or power, in an attempt to make other people notice and admire you.
Sentence – Seeing this drama of yours, I thought it was ostentatious, but when Ramesh told me then I was convinced.
parched: (especially of earth or crops) dried out because of too much heat and not enough rain.
Sentence – The parched remnants were, for Roosevelt, a stark object lesson in the need for animal protection.
perfidious: unable to be trusted, or showing no loyalty.
Sentence – In your language traitor means betrayer : one is perfidious, treacherous, unfaithful, disloyal.
pragmatic: solving problems in a sensible way that suits the conditions that really exist now, rather than obeying fixed theories, ideas, or rules.
Sentence – To achieve electoral success, pragmatic parties might shift their position or expand the range of viewpoints they encompass.
precocious: (especially of children) showing mental development or achievement much earlier than usual.
Sentence – There are even two precocious child skaters, who make you realise how long the process of togetherness takes to gell.
pretentious: trying to appear or sound more important or clever than you are, especially in matters of art and literature.
Sentence – Just get some samples together, print up pretentious business cards, inflate values, rent out tent space and voila!