Vocabulary for IELTS
Candy – a sweet food made from sugar or chocolate, or a piece of this.
Sentence – He conciliated his angry daughter with a piece of candy.
Happily – in a happy way.
Sentence – They’ll quite happily squander a whole year’s savings on two weeks in the sun.
Word – a single unit of language that has meaning and can be spoken or written.
Sentence – While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ’tis once spoken, ’tis another’s.
Inflow – the action of people or things arriving somewhere.
Sentence – The inflow to pension funds is combined with the inflow of funds to life assurance companies and is shown in cell 6/3.
Surroundings – the place where someone or something is and the things that are in it.
Sentence – He didn’t feel completely at ease in the strange surroundings.
Tailor – someone whose job is to repair, make, and adjust (= make changes to) clothes, especially someone who makes jackets, trousers, coats, etc. for men.
Sentence – Most travel agents are prepared to tailor travel arrangements to meet individual requirements.
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 – No emotion showed on Dempster’s impassive face, only a slight pallor in his normally ruddy complexion.
Docile – quiet and easy to influence, persuade, or control.
Sentence – She rejected the traditional female roles of docile daughter and dutiful wife.
Transitory – lasting for only a short time.
Sentence – Given that these change over time, the dominance of the industry by a certain nationality of institutions may be transitory.
Internal – within an organization.
Sentence – He was found guilty of defrauding the Internal Revenue Service.
A narrative – a story or a description of a series of events.
Sentence – The narrative is inert and sloppy, as if the author had been writing half-asleep.
To mimic – to copy the way in which a particular person usually speaks and moves, usually in order to make people laugh .
Sentence – The robot was programmed to mimic a series of human movements.
Bid – to offer a particular amount of money for something that is for sale and compete against other people to buy it, especially at a public sale of goods or property.
Sentence – The Chinese climbers are determined to bid for the highest mountain in the world.
Organic – not using artificial chemicals in the growing of plants and animals for food and other products.
Sentence – Organic food is unadulterated food produced without artificial chemicals or pesticides.
To confine – to limit an activity, person, or problem in some way.
Sentence – It is sad to see a county confine its activities to undignified public bickering.
Convenient – suitable for your purposes and needs and causing the least difficulty.
Sentence – True friendship isn’t about being there when it’s convenient; it’s about being there when it’s not.
To migrate – When an animal migrates, it travels to a different place, usually when the season changes.
Sentence – These birds migrate to Europe in the summer season, returning to warmer places in the south for the winter.
Blameless – not responsible for anything bad.
Sentence – He who is the blameless party takes the initiative in running towards us to forgive.
Crazy – stupid or not reasonable.
Sentence – The only way you could meet my crazy was by doing something crazy yourself.
Noted – importance, or the fact that something deserves attention.
Sentence – The temple is noted for its rich carvings.
Madness – stupid or dangerous behavior.
Sentence – It is madness for a sheep to treat of peace with a wolf.
