IELTS Vocabulary – Part 29

Arrive – to reach a place, especially at the end of a journey.

Sentence – Please make every endeavour to arrive punctually.

Dark – with little or no light.

Sentence – The thief slunk down the dark alley.

Unlawful – not allowed by law.

Sentence – The lawyer was disbarred from practice when he was round guilty of unlawful acts.

Knowingly – in a way that shows you know about something.

Sentence – If any employee knowingly breaks the terms of this contract they will be dismissed immediately.

Moderately – in a way that is neither small nor large in size, amount, degree, or strength.

Sentence – An established hebe may survive all but the worst winters, but a young plant may succumb to moderately severe weather.

Insurgent – someone who is fighting against the government in their own country.

Sentence – There are also two insurgent factions in the game, to let you play as the rebels.

Uprising – an act of opposition, sometimes using violence, by many people in one area of a country against those who are in power.

Sentence – Isolated attacks in the north-east of the country have now turned into a full-scale uprising.

Clerk – a person who works in an office, dealing with records or performing general office duties.

Sentence – The bank manager was really to blame, though he tried to pin it on a clerk.

Miserable – very unhappy.

Sentence – We mustn’t fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

Curative – able to cure or cause to get better.

Sentence – This also applied to the subgroup with a curative tumour resection and is in accordance with other studies that used preoperative radiotherapy.

Equity – the value of a company, divided into many equal parts owned by the shareholders, or one of the equal parts into which the value of a company is divided.

Sentence – A natural endowment approach to equity would direct policy towards the gifted, who are better able to benefit from the policy.

Immature – not behaving in a way that is as calm and wise as people expect from someone of your age.

Sentence – If the child is immature, the solicitor must decide whether disclosure without consent is justified on public interest grounds.

Artful – clever and skilful, especially in getting what you want.

Sentence – Young people from welfare-dependent single-parent families just aren’t artful dodgers ready to graduate into serious crime and a moral vacuum.

Practically – almost or very nearly.

Sentence – There is a place in London that supplies practically everything for left-handed people.

Conscious – aware.

Sentence – The invading force, conscious of their numerical inferiority at sea, decided on an airborne attack.

Apparent – able to be seen or understood.

Sentence – How do you explain the apparent discrepancies between the money and the receipts?

Crook – a very dishonest person, especially a criminal or a cheat.

Sentence – The voice on the line was vaguely familiar, but Crook couldn’t place it at first.

Unvoiced – voiceless.

Sentence – When you have a word ending in an unvoiced consonant, you will notice that the preceding vowel is said quite quickly.

Negligent – not being careful or giving enough attention to people or things that are your responsibility.

Sentence – Prosecutors have said that possible charges include negligent homicide, involuntary manslaughter and second-degree murder.

To differentiate – to show or find the difference between things that are compared.

Sentence – It is wrong to differentiate between people according to their family background.

Inferior – not good, or not as good as someone or something else.

Sentence – If children were made to feel inferior to other children their confidence declined.