IELTS Vocabulary
Congested – too blocked or crowded and causing difficulties.
Sentence – He knew how the traffic congested at the junction of Seventh Avenue and Forty – second Street.
To symbolize – to represent something.
Sentence – They came to symbolize the excesses of the period: the hype and inflated prices new artwork was able to command.
Dash – to go somewhere quickly.
Sentence – The old helmsman brought us about and we avoided a dangerous dash against the rocks.
Hunger – the feeling you have when you need to eat.
Sentence – Thousands of people are dying from hunger every day.
Stable – firmly fixed or not likely to move or change.
Sentence – There are two horses in the stable, eating their heads off and doing no work.
Egocentric – thinking only about yourself and what is good for you.
Sentence – We have already seen that egocentric speech prevalent early in the preoperational stage has social aspects.
Hospitable – friendly and welcoming to guests and visitors.
Sentence – It’s difficult to think of a less hospitable environment than the surface of the Moon.
Legitimate – allowed by law.
Sentence – Most doctors appear to recognize homeopathy as a legitimate form of medicine.
Mindless – stupid and meaning nothing.
Sentence – Somebody goes and does something mindless like that and just destroys everything for you.
Destiny – the things that will happen in the future.
Sentence – Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness.
Touchy – easily offended or upset.
Sentence – Now I get very touchy about finishing because it is so very important from the client’s point of view.
Loopy – strange, unusual, or silly.
Sentence – Loopy Lil gently smiled her new even welfare smile while Mrs Hollidaye darned lisle stockings.
Imperative – extremely important or urgent.
Sentence – It remains imperative that all sides should be involved in the talks.
Business – the activity of buying and selling goods and services.
Sentence – A friendship founded on business is better than business founded on friendship.
Honest – telling the truth or able to be trusted and not likely to steal, cheat, or lie.
Sentence – Truth is honest, truth is sure; Truth is strong and must endure.
Napkin – a small square piece of cloth or paper, used while you are eating to protect your clothes or to clean your mouth or fingers.
Sentence – She folded her napkin, put it carefully through the ring and then left it by her place.
Disgrace – embarrassment and the loss of other people’s respect, or behaviour that causes this.
Sentence – The scandal entailed on the government indelible disgrace.
Confederate – someone you work together with in a secret, sometimes illegal, activity.
Sentence – The Federals looking toward the Confederate lines got only a limited impression of pageantry.
To enquire – to investigate.
Sentence – At a meeting of the Committee appointed to enquire into the Complaints made by the Officers of this Institution.
Sure – certain; without any doubt.
Sentence – Are you sure these documents belong together?
To provide – to give someone something that they need.
Sentence – Taxes provide most of the government’s revenue.
Phantasm – something that is seen or imagined but is not real.
Sentence – The diversity of literary vision offers rhetorical phantasm great space in both form and content , while the aesthetic value of rhetorical phantasm extends the expression vision of literary language .
Scarcity – a situation in which something is not easy to find or get.
Sentence – Perhaps, in some future haunted by scarcity, the unthinkable may be thinkable after all.
