IELTS Vocabulary – Part 13

Dirty – marked with dirt, mud, etc., or containing something such as pollution or bacteria.

Sentence – The steel tubes were clogged with dirty matters.

Help – to make it possible or easier for someone to do something, by doing part of the work yourself or by providing advice, money, support, etc.

Sentence – A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.

To intend – to have as a plan or purpose.

Sentence – I figure life is a gift and I don’t intend on wasting it. You never know what hand you’re going to get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you.

Association – a group of people who work together in a single organization for a particular purpose.

Sentence – His English improved enormously because of his association with British people.

Continue – to keep happening, existing, or doing something, or to cause something or someone to do this.

Sentence – This enables the healing process to continue uninterrupted.

Branch – a part of something larger.

Sentence – The food was analysed root and branch and found to contain small amounts of poison.

Fool – a person who behaves in a silly way without thinking

Sentence – A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose.

Particular – special, or this and not any other.

Sentence – The weather presented a particular challenge, especially for American servicemen unaccustomed to subarctic conditions.

Upset – to make someone worried, unhappy, or angry.

Sentence – A steady growth in the popularity of two smaller parties may upset the polls.

Inventory – a detailed list of all the things in a place.

Sentence – A skilled historian is able to entwine his inventory material with evidence gathered from a variety of other sources.

Independent – not influenced or controlled in any way by other people, events, or things.

Sentence – People think that the investigation was independent, but in fact a lot of political manipulation went on.

To bring sb. Up – to raise.

Sentence – It’s bad enough having to bring up three kids on your own without having to worry about money as well!

Conservative – not usually liking or trusting change, especially sudden change.

Sentence – Older people tend to be quite conservative and a bit suspicious of any supposed advances.

To oversee – to watch or organize a job or an activity to make certain that it is being done correctly.

Sentence – An independent moderator should be appointed to oversee the negotiations.

Surplus – more than is needed.

Sentence – The agricultural surplus was taken over almost in its entirety by the ruler.

Decontrol – to remove official control on something, especially prices and businesses.

Sentence – The electric power industry passes to decontrol, lead into the competition, and improve the economic performance of generation transmition and distribution the electricity.

Nervous – worried and anxious.

Sentence – Suddenly not know what course to take such a life,nervous, sensitive and busy.

Choosy – difficult to please because you are very exact about what you like.

Sentence – Far from being choosy, female primates seemed to be initiators of much promiscuity.

Midway – half the distance between two places.

Sentence – They were denied an obvious penalty before the midway point of the first half.

Deliberate – intentional or planned.

Sentence – His cancellation of the concert was seen as a deliberate snub to the organizers.

Fantastic – great, brilliant.

Sentence – Kids spend fantastic amounts of money on CDs.

Impatient – easily annoyed by someone’s mistakes or because you have to wait.

Sentence – The big clubs are becoming increasingly impatient at the rate of progress.