IELTS Vocabulary Part – 224

Malediction – words that are intended to bring bad luck to someone or that express the hope that someone will have bad luck.

Sentence – It is often claimed that there is the malediction prohibition in Daoism, and Buddhist monks simply reject such business.

Malevolent – causing or wanting to cause harm or evil.

Sentence – I may have made an unconscious movement towards him because he gave me a last malevolent grin and disappeared into the crowd.

Manifold – many and of several different types.

Sentence – That Darwin’s ideas could have such manifold influence throughout the entire structure of modern biological theory should not now be surprising.

Maudlin – feeling sad and sorry for yourself, especially after you have drunk a lot of alcohol.

Sentence – There are the quiet, maudlin times: injured parties, slighted lovers, Chet Baker playing to serenade them.

Mawkish – showing emotion or love in an awkward or silly way.

Sentence – A mawkish exercise, but one that everyone enjoys – to step about this cluttered suburb like a daytime ghost.

Mendacious – not telling the truth.

Sentence – However, modern scholars being against metaphysics regard traditional metaphysics as mendacious nonsense.

Mercurial – changing suddenly and often.

Sentence – Flamboyant, mercurial creatures, they had passionate wills of their own; they exercised a devious, seductive fascination.

Modicum – a small amount of something good such as truth or honesty.

Sentence – A modicum of semi-professional training defines the role as putting into practice a set of ideals inculcated in that training.

Multifarious – of many different types.

Sentence – Cooperated now on market multifarious, dimension no longer onefold books, broke the fixed frame of traditional bookshelf, the limitation with equational space, use rise convenient freely.

Myriad – a very large number of something.

Sentence – And he was fed the information from myriad channels, to be dispensed with the holy water on Sundays.

Nadir – the worst moment, or the moment of least hope and least achievement.

Sentence – The relationship between the Soviet Union’s two dominant politicians here reached its nadir.

Nascent – only recently formed or started, but likely to grow larger quickly.

Sentence – In people who are not esoterically developed, the mental and emotional bodies are in a rudimentary or nascent state.

Nefarious – (especially of activities) morally bad.

Sentence – What sheer bad luck to meet a literary policeman when he was trying to do something nefarious but necessary.

Neophyte – someone who has recently become involved in an activity and is still learning about it.

Sentence – The idea is that he should always continue to act as a neophyte devotee as long as his material body is there.

Trajectory – the curved path that an object follows after it has been thrown or shot into the air.

Sentence – Even as the trajectory of his thought kept rising in the early seventies, the clock was ticking on his pet project.

Prudent – careful and avoiding risks.

Sentence – When your overtures are misconstrued, the prudent course is sometimes to apologise and withdraw.

Repercussion – the effect that an action, event, or decision has on something, especially a bad effect.

Sentence – Furthermore, the unfavourable climate may have repercussions on the general attitudes to the black population in the United Kingdom.

Altruistic – willingness to do things that bring advantages to others, even if it results in disadvantage for yourself.           

Sentence – I doubt whether her motives for donating the money are altruistic – she’s probably looking for publicity.   

Immense – extremely large in size or degree.

Sentence – The psychological effects on the United States were immense and in Washington the wounds have still not fully healed.