IELTS Vocabulary Part – 218

Fractious – easilyupset or annoyed, and often complaining.

Sentence – Admittedly, they went to North Carolina as a fractious team with too many cliques.

Garrulous – havingthe habit of talking a lot, especially about things that are not important.

Sentence – The garrulous waves ceaselessly talked of hidden treasures, mocking the ignorance that knew not their meaning.

Gregarious – (of people) liking to be with other people.

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

Hapless – unlucky and usually unhappy.

Sentence – Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he’d been playing for the past few weeks!

Harangue – to speak to someone or a group of people, often for a long time, in a forceful and sometimes angry way, especially to persuade them.

Sentence – Waved back by a Kalashnikov-wielding, spotty boy-soldier, I was subject to a ten-minute harangue by two bad-tempered border guards.

Hegemony – (especially of countries) the position of being the strongest and most powerful and therefore able to control others.

Sentence – So effective was hegemony around the poor law that it continued throughout the preindustrial period and the period of rapid growth.

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 – She greeted Charlotte in a drawing room strewn with plants and pictures where an impassive bloodhound dozed before a blazing fire.

Imperious – unpleasantly proud and expecting to be obeyed.

Sentence – Andrew enjoyed her company and respected her imperious resilience to the classic effects of drinking.

Impertinent – rude and not showing respect, especially towards someone older or in a higher position than you.

Sentence – There is no penalty for being impertinent to supervisors who, in turn, quickly learn to keep their advice to themselves.

Impervious – not allowing liquid to go through.

Sentence – It is indoctrination Misguided pride leaves us impervious to any version of success that does not bear the patent of our system.

Impetuous – likely to do something suddenly, without considering the results of your actions.

Sentence – The Prime Minister may now be regretting her impetuous promise to reduce unemployment by half.

Impinge – to have an effect on something, often causing problems by limiting it in some way.

Sentence – The cheaper RISC-based machines are likely to impinge directly on the territory occupied by the company’s newly announced Pentium machines.

Implacable – used to describe (someone who has) strong opinions or feelings that are impossible to change.

Sentence – He had been its implacable scourge, its unbending critic, preaching and practising austerity and revenge.

Inchoate – only recently or partly formed, or not completely developed or clear.

Sentence – To date, this system is still inchoate. A bibliographer can apply the selection criteria typically used in the selection of printed texts to these electronic counterparts.

Incontrovertible – impossible to doubt because of being obviously true.

Sentence – If the hearings uncover some incontrovertible evidence of corruption he could look like a defender of the indefensible.

Indefatigable – always determined and energetic in trying to achieve something and never willing to admit defeat.

Sentence – The water edge brimmed with children the waves with surf riders the deep with indefatigable crawl swimmers flashing spray over wet heads.

Ineffable – causing so much emotion, especially pleasure, that it cannot be described.

Sentence – The ineffable Louis Stanley, operating from his suite in the Dorchester, launched new but already outmoded cars with monotonous regularity.