IELTS Vocabulary
To appear – to start to be seen or to be present.
Sentence – Those days when we were together appear in my mind time after time, because they were so joyful, happy, blest, disappointing, sad and painful.
Except – not including; but not.
Sentence – I am pretty useless at everything except music.
To survive – to continue to live or exist, especially after coming close to dying or being destroyed or after being in a difficult or threatening situation.
Sentence – Whether the business will survive another ten years is pure conjecture.
Migrant – a person that travels to a different country or place, often in order to find work.
Sentence – City residents complain that migrant workers have threatened to take already scarce urban jobs.
Dead – lifeless.
Sentence – A politician is a man who undertands government, and it takes a poiltician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead ten or fifeen years.
Notwithstanding – despite the fact or thing mentioned.
Sentence – Notwithstanding some major financial problems, the school has had a successful year.
A native – relating to or describing someone’s country or place of birth or someone who was born in a particular country or place.
Sentence – Our programme ensures daily opportunities to practice your study language with native speakers.
To visualize – to form a picture of someone or something in your mind, in order to imagine or remember him, her, or it.
Sentence – It is quite entertaining to attempt to visualize what the intermediates may have looked like.
Informal – not formal or official.
Sentence – Many informal expressions are gaining currency in serious newspapers.
To begin – to start to happen or exist.
Sentence – If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certaintics.
Infuriate – to make someone extremely angry.
Sentence – It will infuriate the Right because of Mr Heseltine’s interventionist approach to industrial policy.
Animated – full of interest and energy.
Sentence – The schoolboys were captivated by the adventures of the heroes in the animated cartoon.
Chorus – part of a song that is repeated several times, usually after each verse.
Sentence – The children repeated the words after her in chorus.
Necessary – needed in order to achieve a particular result.
Sentence – Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Provided – to give someone something that they need.
Sentence – The Malvern Hills have provided inspiration for many artists and musicians over the decades.
Remorse – a feeling of sadness and being sorry for something you have done.
Sentence – Any sign of remorse was completely absent from her face.
Domesticate – to bring animals or plants under human control in order to provide food, power, or company.
Sentence – She was fully domesticated by then,washing the dishes and taking out the garbage.
Steady – happening in a smooth, gradual, and regular way, not suddenly or unexpectedly.
Sentence – A steady growth in the popularity of two smaller parties may upset the polls.
Testament – testimony.
Sentence – Although New Testament apocrypha go into these details, some quite extensively.
If – used to say that a particular thing can or will happen only after something else happens or becomes true.
Sentence – If you dance you must pay the fiddler.
Applicable – affecting or relating to a person or thing.
Sentence – This part of the law is only applicable to companies employing more than five people.
Difficult – needing skill or effort.
Sentence – To acquire wealth is difficult, to preserve it more difficult, but to spend it wisely most difficult of all.
