IELTS Vocabulary Part – 139

Curler – a small plastic tube that you twist hair around to make it curl.

Sentence – Try winding four or five large curlers into the crown to add height.

Grasping – (of people) always trying to get and keep more of something, especially money.

Sentence – The claws of a crab are used for grasping things, especially food.

Skull – the bones of the head that surround the brain and give the head its shape.

Sentence – The ancient skull of Peking Man has been pieced together from fragments.

Conscientious – putting a lot of effort into your work.

Sentence – The conscientious researcher is careful to avoid up the pole and omission.

Hate – to dislike someone or something very much.

Sentence – I hate the way she always criticizes me.

Foyer – a large open area just inside the entrance of a public building such as a theatre or a hotel, where people can wait and meet each other.

Sentence – Stay in the foyer if you wish, but bear in mind the performance begins in two minutes.

Maneuver – to handle and move something carefully or with difficulty.

Sentence – The pilot was able to maneuver the crippled aircraft out of the hostile area.

Numerous – many.

Sentence – Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous.

Wonderful – extremely good.

Sentence – New Year time is here. I hope you have a wonderful New Year. May every day hold happy hours for you.

Obligatory – If something is obligatory, you must do it because of a rule or law, etc..

Sentence – Identification with one’s community is, though not morally obligatory, a desirable state, at least if that community is reasonably just.

Bloodbath – an extremely violent event in which a large number of people are killed.

Sentence – The eighteen-month bloodbath that ensued took place in inhabited areas, not in the hinterlands.

Cruel – extremely unkind and unpleasant and causing pain to people or animals intentionally.

Sentence – She still believes in Santa Claus and it would be cruel to disillusion her.

Important – necessary or of great value.

Sentence – The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.

Quite – fairly.

Sentence – Words and deeds are quite indifferent 23modes of the divine 24energy. Words are also action, and actions are a kind of words.

In the meantime – meanwhile.

Sentence – Your computer won’t be arriving till Thursday. In the meantime, you can use Jude’s.

Reminiscence – the act of remembering events and experiences from the past.

Sentence – Less personal reminiscence might allow greater clarity about the grubby political reality of Indira’s Congress.

Unforeseen – unexpected and often unwanted.

Sentence – For protection against unforeseen emergencies, you insure your house, your furnishings and your car.

After – following in time, place, or order.

Sentence – Never embark on what comes after without having mastered what goes before.

Intellectual – relating to your ability to think and understand things, especially complicated ideas.

Sentence – It’s time to celebrate your birthday. Happy birthday to an attractive and intellectual girl.

Contemporary – existing or happening now, and therefore seeming modern.

Sentence – The contemporary hero is one who stands out against the crowd to fulfill a personal destiny.

Humble – not proud or not believing that you are important.

Sentence – Will you do us the great favour of partaking of our humble wine?

Religious – relating to religion.

Sentence – Religious minorities were persecuted and massacred during the ten-year regime.

Impolite – behaving in a way that is not socially correct and shows a lack of understanding of and care for other people’s feelings.

Sentence – Some people still think it is impolite for men not to stand up when a woman comes into the room.