IELTS Vocabulary

Abnegation – Renunciation of a belief or doctrine; Denial

Sentence – If the Court holds fast to its abnegation of this traditional role, it could mark a sea change in federal-state relations.

Aggrandize – To enhance power, wealth, or status

Sentence – In order to aggrandize afresh their power, the powerful countries started aforethought aggression time and again.

Fatuous – Devoid of intelligence

Sentence – Hence the portentous, and even fatuous slogan which towered each year in brightest blue above the rostrum.

Gratuitous – Uncalled for or unwarranted

Sentence – In living-rooms throughout the country, violence, gratuitous and graphic, is often the staple diet of the video generation.

Iconoclast – Someone who criticizes or attacks cherished ideas and beliefs

Sentence – Notorious as an iconoclast, that music critic isn’t afraid to go after sacred cows.

Idiosyncratic – Something peculiar to an individual

Sentence – Outdated voting mechanisms, a decentralised, idiosyncratic procedure, and the archaic electoral college have received comment.

Incumbent – A person who is currently in an official position.

Sentence – The incumbent president faces problems which began many years before he took office.

Inveterate – Habitual

Sentence – The inveterate entrepreneur and a trio of venture capital firms in January invested $ 5 million in Healthscape Inc.

Libertarian – Someone who cherishes ideas of free will

Sentence – First, there is the libertarian premiss that a person’s position should not be irremediably worsened by another’s conduct.

Licentious – Someone who is promiscuous

Sentence – A moralist who decried what she regarded as the licentious and corrupt culture of the entertainment industry.

Largesse – Kindness or generosity in bestowing gifts or money

Sentence – Chinese enterprises are sometimes the beneficiaries of largesse from Beijing, such as low-interest loans that may never need to be repaid in full.

Multifarious – Multifaceted or diverse

Sentence – Cooperated now on market multifarious, dimension no longer onefold books, broke the fixed frame of traditional bookshelf, the limitation with equational space, use rise convenient freely.

Obdurate – Being stubborn and refusing to change one’s opinion

Sentence – Up until now he had been obdurate on the matter, the Emmeline was his, he would not give her up.

Ostracism – Excluding a person or certain section from the society by the majority’s consent

Sentence – This ostracism is bizarre given that Mr Lobo won a reasonably free election in November.

Pejorative – Showing disapproval

Sentence – He used the word ‘girl’ in the pejorative sense when referring to the women who worked for him.

Pertinacious – Someone who is stubbornly unyielding

Sentence – Whatever I did, that idea would bother me: it was so tiresomely pertinacious that I resolved on requesting leave to go to Wuthering Heights, and assist in the last duties to the dead.