IELTS Vocabulary – Part 119

Indispensable essential, crucial, necessary

Sentence – Written sources are considered virtually indispensable for today’s history teaching.

Repercussions              an unintended consequence of an event or action, especially an unwelcome one

Sentence – Human acts have repercussions far beyond the frontiers of the human world.

Inevitable       unavoidable

Sentence – It is very inevitable for me to reach the hospital, my wife is going to have a baby.

Doomed          an unfortunate and inescapable outcome; ill-fated

Sentence – The plan was doomed to fail by their refusal to give it any financial support.

Emotional Fallout      emotional breakdown

Sentence – It became difficult for me to handle the emotional fallout after failure.

With The Likes Of      similar to

Sentence – The company has introduced new prices which it says are necessary to survive competition with the likes of Vebacom and Mannesmann.

Call It A Day    decide or agree to stop doing something

Sentence – We realized we weren’t going to get the job finished, so we decided to call it a day.

Down In The Dumps  depressed or unhappy

Sentence – She supposed she was feeling a bit down in the dumps, apprehensive too about celebrating Christmas Day at the Danbys.

Toiling working extremely hard or incessantly

Sentence – Against their huge bulk, the pilgrims and mule toiling up the almost invisible pathways are tiny and humbled.

Let Off A Bit Of Steam           to do or say something that helps you to get rid of strong feelings or energy

Sentence – Any time I need to let off a bit of steam, I call my friends and and talk.

Arrogate – to claim or seize without justification

Sentence – Governments should not be deluded into thinking that they can arrogate to themselves powers that they do not and cannot possess.

Blandishment – something, as an action or speech, that tends to flatter, coax, entice, etc.

Sentence – But this remedy fails to confront the reality of a male youth culture nearly immune to all the blandishments of established society.

Bilk – to defraud; cheat

Sentence – City police expresses east, current, network bilk case and photograph comparing in ascendant trend last year.

Congruity – the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate

Sentence – Moral construction of higher schools must be emphasized the congruity of theory and practice, knowing and doing.

Cupidity – strong desire, esp for possessions or money; greed

Sentence – A method for seal identification is proposed, which based on cupidity algorithm and polygon triangulation cutting algorithm in computational geometry.

Ephemeral – lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory

Sentence – Likewise, those that thought they were too ephemeral and effervescent, began to appreciate them.

Exhort – to try to influence (someone) by words or advice : to strongly urge (someone) to do something

Sentence – He exhorted delegates to fight corruption, bureaucracy and incompetence.

Flagrant – conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

Sentence – If a flagrant oversight like this could occur it says little for the prospects of men of lowly status being correctly recorded.

Grandiloquence –  a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language

Sentence – This will be hard because of the excesses of grandiloquence the politicians have indulged in.