Vocabulary for IELTS
Isolated – lonely.
Sentence – Police officers had a siege mentality that isolated them from the people they served.
Missing – Someone who is missing has disappeared.
Sentence – Searchers have found three mountain climbers missing since Saturday.
Drab – boring, especially in appearance; having little colour and excitement.
Sentence – Her personality was drab, earnest and humourless and her appearance calculatedly unattractive.
Fortunate – lucky.
Sentence – Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Off – away from a place or position, especially the present place, position, or time.
Sentence – There is always something to be cut off young trees if they are to grow well.
Mendacity – the act of not telling the truth.
Sentence – For all its focus on the evils of high finance, The Mendacity of Hope has surprisingly little to say about the current economic crisis, or the administration’s response.
Superb – of excellent quality; very great.
Sentence – A poor game was redeemed in the second half by a couple of superb goals from Anthony Edwards.
Leading – very important or most important.
Sentence – She gave a vibrant performance in the leading role in the school play.
Chiefly – mainly.
Sentence – The team lost the game chiefly bacause the team leader had a dispute with the coach.
Aggressive – behaving in an angry and violent way towards another person.
Sentence – The government has adopted an aggressive posture on immigration.
Noon – twelve o’clock in the middle of the day, or about that time.
Sentence – Only seven minutes remained before the expiry of the noon deadline.
Vague – not clearly expressed, known, described, or decided.
Sentence – Readers familiar with English history will find a vague parallel to the suppression of the monasteries.
Misfortune – bad luck, or an unlucky event.
Sentence – The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
Misread – to make a mistake in the way that you read something.
Sentence – Mothers may also misread signals and think the baby is crying because he is hungry.
Lacking – missing.
Sentence – What is lacking is an insight into the particularity of our societal system.
Jealous – upset and angry because someone that you love seems interested in another person.
Sentence – Sarah is Jane’s friend but she is jealous if Jane plays with other girls.
Doubt – (a feeling of) not being certain about something, especially about how good or true it is.
Sentence – If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky11 ground.
Wrong – not correct.
Sentence – The man couldn’t discern between right and wrong.
Away – somewhere else, or to or in a different place, position, or situation.
Sentence – What we acquire without sweat we give away without regret.
To notify – to tell someone officially about something.
Sentence – If you see anything suspicious you should notify the police immediately.
Mannequin – a large model of a human being, used to show clothes in the window of a shop.
Sentence – She allowed herself to be posed like a mannequin, but drew in on herself when he let her go.
Dicey – slightly dangerous or uncertain.
Sentence – There was a dicey moment as one of our party made a risky climb up the cliff wall.
Empty – not containing any things or people.
Sentence – As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least wit are the greatest babblers.
