IELTS Vocabulary Part – 157

Surroundings – the place where someone or something is and the things that are in it.

Sentence – Absorbed in her work, she was totally oblivious of her surroundings.

Tailored – someone whose job is to repair, make, and adjust (= make changes to) clothes, especially someone who makes jackets, trousers, coats, etc. for men.

Sentence – Programs are tailored to meet the needs of end-users and their own business environments.

Impassive – If someone’s face is impassive, it expresses no emotion, because the person seems not to be affected by the situation they are experiencing.

Sentence – Two impassive cops in shiny black raincoats levelled guns like the Gestapo rehearsing for a massacre.

Docile – quiet and easy to influence, persuade, or control.

Sentence – Has it made him more docile and thus easier to control, or has it destabilised him?

Transitory – lasting for only a short time.

Sentence – It is a transitory work which lays the groundwork for themes and styles found in the theater sixty years later.

Internal – inside the body.

Sentence – Any attempt to discuss the issue of human rights was rejected as an unwarranted interference in the country’s internal affairs.

A narrative – a story or a description of a series of events.

Sentence – For this reason we will present a narrative account of ten consecutive one-century runs, just as they came off the computer.

To mimic – to copy the way in which a particular person usually speaks and moves, usually in order to make people laugh.

Sentence – Unfortunately, these machines often try to mimic electronic digital computers rather than exploit their own advantages.

Bid – to offer a particular amount of money for something that is for sale and compete against other people to buy it, especially at a public sale of goods or property.

Sentence – The Government has already closed down two newspapers in a bid to silence its critics.

Organic – not using artificial chemicals in the growing of plants and animals for food and other products.

Sentence – Organic food is unadulterated food produced without artificial chemicals or pesticides.

To confine – to limit an activity, person, or problem in some way.

Sentence – Officials are told to confine themselves to facts and to avoid being drawn into discussion of alternative policies.

Convenient – suitable for your purposes and needs and causing the least difficulty.

Sentence – He used his wife’s birthday as a convenient excuse for not going to the meeting.

To migrate – When an animal migrates, it travels to a different place, usually when the season changes.

Sentence – The cells seem to migrate along a track of extracellular material that covers cells which are oriented along the pathway they take.

Blameless – not responsible for anything bad.

Sentence – None of us is completely blameless – we all knew something like this could happen.

Crazy – stupid or not reasonable.

Sentence – In the heart of a grave, a smile will become desolate, a person crazy.

Noted – a short piece of writing.

Sentence – She had noted down the names and she told me the story simply and factually.

Madness – stupid or dangerous behavior.

Sentence – They say that genius often goes hand in hand with madness.

Arrogant – unpleasantly proud and behaving as if you are more important than, or know more than, other people.

Sentence – She has an authoritative manner that at times is almost arrogant.

Awful – extremely bad or unpleasant.

Sentence – The awful truth about his disappearance finally dawned on her.