IELTS Vocabulary Part – 174

Isolated – lonely.

Sentence – Police officers had a siege mentality that isolated them from the people they served.

Missing – Someone who is missing has disappeared.

Sentence – Searchers have found three mountain climbers missing since Saturday.

Drab – boring, especially in appearance; having little colour and excitement.

Sentence – Her personality was drab, earnest and humourless and her appearance calculatedly unattractive.

Fortunate – lucky.

Sentence – Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Off – away from a place or position, especially the present place, position, or time.

Sentence – There is always something to be cut off young trees if they are to grow well.

Mendacity – the act of not telling the truth.

Sentence – For all its focus on the evils of high finance, The Mendacity of Hope has surprisingly little to say about the current economic crisis, or the administration’s response.

Superb – of excellent quality; very great.

Sentence – A poor game was redeemed in the second half by a couple of superb goals from Anthony Edwards.

Leading – very important or most important.

Sentence – She gave a vibrant performance in the leading role in the school play.

Chiefly – mainly.

Sentence – The team lost the game chiefly bacause the team leader had a dispute with the coach.

Aggressive – behaving in an angry and violent way towards another person.

Sentence – The government has adopted an aggressive posture on immigration.

Noon – twelve o’clock in the middle of the day, or about that time.

Sentence – Only seven minutes remained before the expiry of the noon deadline.

Vague – not clearly expressed, known, described, or decided.

Sentence – Readers familiar with English history will find a vague parallel to the suppression of the monasteries.

Misfortune – bad luck, or an unlucky event.

Sentence – The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.

Misread – to make a mistake in the way that you read something.

Sentence – Mothers may also misread signals and think the baby is crying because he is hungry.

Deceptive – the act of hiding the truth, especially to get an advantage.

Sentence – I found the deceptive cairn and followed the instructions to find the real summit over a slight drop in the ridge.

Lacking – missing.

Sentence – What is lacking is an insight into the particularity of our societal system.

Jealous – upset and angry because someone that you love seems interested in another person.

Sentence – Sarah is Jane’s friend but she is jealous if Jane plays with other girls.

Doubt – (a feeling of) not being certain about something, especially about how good or true it is.

Sentence – If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky11 ground.

Wrong – not correct.

Sentence – The man couldn’t discern between right and wrong.

Away – somewhere else, or to or in a different place, position, or situation.

Sentence – What we acquire without sweat we give away without regret.

To notify – to tell someone officially about something.

Sentence – If you see anything suspicious you should notify the police immediately.

Mannequin – a large model of a human being, used to show clothes in the window of a shop.

Sentence – She allowed herself to be posed like a mannequin, but drew in on herself when he let her go.

Dicey – slightly dangerous or uncertain.

Sentence – There was a dicey moment as one of our party made a risky climb up the cliff wall.

Empty – not containing any things or people.

Sentence – As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least wit are the greatest babblers.