IELTS Vocabulary – Part 148

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 – An independent adviser has been brought in to conciliate between the two sides involved in the conflict.

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 – The company likes to oversee as much of the recording to pressing operation as possible – which takes about four months.

Surplus – (an amount that is) more than is needed.

Sentence – The manufacturers in some countries dumped their surplus commodities abroad.

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

Sentence – A second important theme in the evolving urban debate after 1979 is the issue of deregulation and decontrol.

Nervous – worried and anxious.

Sentence – It’s perfectly normal to be nervous before a performance.

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 – (often of something bad) intentional or planned.

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

Fantastic – great, brilliant.

Sentence – You should have heard the audience applaud – the noise was fantastic.

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.

Believable – If something is believable, it seems possible, real, or true.

Sentence – In addition, government policies need to be believable; banning cigarette advertising would almost certainly cut consumption.

Omnipotent – having unlimited power and able to do anything.

Sentence – The Lugbara also believe in a single omnipotent deity as the ultimate creator of life and the dispenser of death.

To imitate – to behave in a similar way to someone or something else, or to copy the speech or behaviour, etc. of someone or something.

Sentence – Sports heroes and pop stars provide images for teenagers, who may imitate them and style themselves upon them.

Belly – the stomach or the front part of the body between your chest and your legs.

Sentence – The belly of the animal is covered in long piercing spikes.

Nice – pleasant, enjoyable, or satisfactory.

Sentence – He has a nice sum of money put away.

Nice – pleasant, enjoyable, or satisfactory.

Sentence – He has a nice sum of money put away.

Well mannered – behaving in a pleasant and polite way.

Sentence – A few other members of the music world – too embarrassed or well mannered to have left – applauded with him.

Able – capable.

Sentence – Histories make men wise ; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend.

To glitter – to produce a lot of small, bright flashes of reflected light.

Sentence – The child was attracted by the glitter of the Christmas tree decorations.

Ballot – a system or occasion of secret voting.

Sentence – There should be a seven-day cooling-off period between a strike ballot and industrial action.