IELTS Vocabulary
Uncared for – not taken care of well enough.
Sentence – If I were you, I wouldn’t have the heart to leave the kids at home uncared for.
Damage – to harm or spoil something.
Sentence – Storms have caused structural damage to hundreds of homes.
Easy – needing little effort.
Sentence – It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.
Transparent – If a substance or object is transparent, you can see through it very clearly.
Sentence – Most of people are looking forward the crystal-like love-pure without any defect. However the truth is most people are having the glass-like love-same transparent but easily broken.
Moment – a very short period of time.
Sentence – The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment.
To beat – to defeat.
Sentence – The smaller shopkeepers ganged together to beat off competition from the supermarkets.
Unbiased – able to judge fairly because you are not influenced by your own opinions.
Sentence – A unbiased evaluation of irregularly distributed data is obtained by the mathematical method of trend analysis.
Rude – not polite; offensive or embarrassing.
Sentence – If you are rude to me, I shall retaliate with equal rudeness.
Deserted – If a place is deserted, there are no people in it.
Sentence – The village had been hurriedly deserted, perhaps because terrorists were in the area.
To denote – to indicate, to represent.
Sentence – The three dotted lines have different elevations and denote differences in relative organ size associated with changes in life style.
Unmarried – single
Sentence – Today, we no longer gasp when we hear a teenage girl is pregnant or whisper about unmarried couples who live together.
Cry – to produce tears as the result of a strong emotion, such as unhappiness or pain.
Sentence – Don’t cry because it is over,smile because it happened.
Foxy – cunning.
Sentence – He let a neighbourly grin slide over his foxy face.
Depraved – morally bad or evil.
Sentence – Result: You perform depraved acts of self – humiliation and are enthusiastically accepted into the fold.
Ability – the physical or mental power or skill needed to do something.
Sentence – Their is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize.
Scrumptious – tasting extremely good.
Sentence – While sipping his sangria, he noticed a sizzling, scrumptious – looking platter being served at the next table.
Mysterious – strange, not known, or not understood.
Sentence – All the rose bushes seem to be suffering from the same mysterious malady.
Couch – sofa
Sentence – He’s turned into a real couch potato since he subscribed to the sports channel.
Vacancy – a space or place that is available to be used.
Sentence – I rang the firm just on the off chance that they might have a vacancy.
Special – not ordinary or usual.
Sentence – A special subcommittee adjudicates on planning applications.
Daybreak – the period in the day when light from the sun begins to appear in the sky.
Sentence – They would be awakened before daybreak and by eight had already had prayers and a math or science lesson.
Trivial – having little value or importance.
Sentence – They had been quite good friends for years, until they fell out about some trivial matter.
Naked – bare.
Sentence – The light that plays, like a naked child, among the green leaves happily knows not that man can lie.
To bring something Back – to reintroduce.
Sentence – Don’t forget to bring something back for the kids.
