IELTS Vocabulary Part – 200

Abjure – Promise publically that you will give up.  

Sentence – I would abjure my art then and there, leave off cursing, leave off binding fast and loose with spells.

Acumen- The ability to understand tings quickly and well.

Sentence – Our focus is on the convergence of business acumen, strategy, technology directions, and capital requirements.

Antipathy – dislike

Sentence – This reflects the antipathy towards industry and commerce from traditionally educated, liberal-humanist teachers.

Enervate – weaken or destroy strength.

Sentence – he was slow to recover from his disease, even a short walk to the window would enervate him

Fetid – unpleasant-smell       

Sentence – The fetid water of the foreground is juxtaposed with the pristine rigid form inching into the upper regions of the canvas, forcing one to consider the space in between .

Gregarious – sociable.

Sentence – A gregarious single woman in her mid-thirties, she came to me feeling atrophied in her position with a major insurance company.

Mendacious – Dishonesty, lying.

Sentence – Malicious litigation can be divided into six types, abusing of the right to sue, abusing of the defensive right, abusing of judicial proceeding, false lawsuits, mendacious suit and repeated suit.

Squatter – A person who is living in a building or land without permission or paying rent.

Sentence – Many of the squatter settlements exhibit high levels of social organisation and stability rather than marginal characteristics.

Squeaky – Making a short high sound.

Sentence Within minutes, Tamika, squeaky clean for the first time in days, is proudly pulling the clothing on.

Truce – An agreement between opponents to stop fighting for a certain period of time.

Sentence – He welcomed the truce, but pointed out it was of little comfort to families spending Christmas without a loved one.

Organize – to arrange something in a proper way.

Sentence – Our marketing team will organize the upcoming Annual Sales Convention in Mumbai

Expand – To increase the size or amount.

Sentence – In breathing the chest muscles expand the rib cage and allow air to be sucked into the lungs.

Competitor – The person or business that competes against you.

Sentence – This, and the fact that Mike was a competitor, seemed to get Dmitri edgy: his face went entirely deadpan.

Invoice – It is a bill showing quantity & price of good purchased. 

Sentence – If an invoice is not paid within seven days, we automatically send out a reminder.

Consensus – agreed on by everyone on something.

Sentence – Consensus need not be weak, nor need it result in middle-of-the-road policies.

Public Relation – Make good relation with the public so to have better publics image.

Sentence – Public relation is the essence of urban planning which aim is to study methods and rules in layout or coordinate on PR according to spatial relation.

Authorization – Giving legal approval to something.

Sentence – Assuming authorization has been agreed, actual expenditures, or appropriations, are considered by the appropriation committees.

Delegate – Distribution of something to lower level.

Sentence – A delegate from Siberia proposed a resolution that he stand down as party chairman.

After-Sale Services – Giving services to customers like maintenance, repairs after selling products to them.

Sentence – In existing cost reporting, businesses focus more on product cost reporting rather than on purchasing cost, cost of goods sold as well as cost of after-sale services.

Clause – A statement in the contract.

Sentence – This last clause is a thinly-veiled threat to those who might choose to ignore the decree.