IELTS Vocabulary Part – 153

About – on the subject of, or connected with.

Sentence – Stop worrying about their marriage-it isn’t your problem.

Constantly – all the time or often.

Sentence – Both quantum mechanics and chaos theory suggest a world constantly in flux.

To overlook – to fail to notice or consider something or someone.

Sentence – Companies are so busy analyzing the financial implications that they overlook the effect on workers.

Barren – unable to produce plants or fruit.

Sentence – It always amazed her to see that other people could live so comfortably upon such barren territory.

Merciless – having or showing no mercy.

Sentence – In court, he was accused of being a merciless predator who had tricked his grandmother out of her savings.

Bizarre – very strange and unusual.

Sentence – Renshaw reveals 20 bizarre ways in which women have got their own back on former loved ones.

Continuous – without a pause or interruption.

Sentence – Recovery after the accident will be a continuous process that may take several months.

Maximum – being the largest amount or number allowed or possible.

Sentence – What’s the maximum amount of wine you’re allowed to take through customs duty – free ?

To mirror – to reflect.

Sentence – Still less is it intended to mirror the expectation of life of the deceased or his dependants.

Commencement – the beginning of something.

Sentence – It follows that one always knows the commencement date of a Community regulation without going outside the text of the regulation itself.

Dumb – stupid.

Sentence – They begged him to explain, but he remained dumb.

Usually – normal; happening, done, or used most often.

Sentence – Martinez, when she served, usually stayed on the baseline.

Becoming – used to say that something is attractive and suits the person wearing or doing it.

Sentence – The club’s constitution prevented women from becoming full members.

Concord – agreement and peace between countries and people.

Sentence – The difference is that concord particles precede the verb, whereas-5 is an inflectional suffix on the verb.

Always – every time or all the time.

Sentence – Let patience grow in your garden always.

Bashful – often feeling uncomfortable with other people and easily embarrassed.

Sentence – And we should not be bashful about its place in the current international art scene.

Daring – brave and taking risks.

Sentence – Something approaching a lynch mob has been gathering against the Chancellor for even daring to consider higher interest rates.

To expire – If something that lasts for a fixed length of time expires, it comes to an end or stops being in use.

Sentence –  Unfortunately, they allowed his notice to expire without further action and proceeded to recruit new employees.

Insufficient – not enough.

Sentence – The police have decided not to prefer charges against them because of insufficient evidence.

Signal – an action, movement, or sound that gives information, a message, a warning, or an order.

Sentence – They suffered from nervous tension when the signal was shown on a radarscope.

Foolish – unwise, stupid, or not showing good judgment.

Sentence – The accident was my fault-it would be foolish to pretend otherwise.

Candy – a sweet food made from sugar or chocolate, or a piece of this.

Sentence – He conciliated his angry daughter with a piece of candy.

Happily – in a happy way.

Sentence – In our life we are laughing more happily than anybody else. But when the crowd dissipates, we feel much more lonely than anybody else.

Word – a single unit of language that has meaning and can be spoken or written.

Sentence – The chinese word for crisis is divided into two characters, one meaning danger and the other meaning opportunity.

Inflow – the action of people or things arriving somewhere.

Sentence – The inflow to pension funds is combined with the inflow of funds to life assurance companies and is shown in cell 6/3.