Vocabulary For IELTS

impetuous: likely to do something suddenly, without considering the results of your actions.

Sentence – Powell felt both clubs were impetuous buys which Virgin could ill-afford at a time when it was struggling out of recession.

impute: to say that someone is responsible for something that has happened, especially something bad, or that something is the cause of something else.

Sentence – In all these cases, it is necessary to impute – to determine a charge for – the products provided.

inconsequential: without consequence, trivial, doesn’t matter.

Sentence – Nor were they inconsequential gossip and rumor being whispered by small-town idlers on local street corners.

inevitable: certain to happen and unable to be avoided or prevented.

Sentence – Tourists keep coming here, so it is inevitable that things should be expensive here.

intrepid: extremely brave and showing no fear of dangerous situations.

Sentence – Now thirty-five intrepid Lionisers were gazing at the outside of the small single-fronted cottage with its tiny parlour overlooking the street.

intuitive: based on feelings rather than facts or proof.

Sentence – The importance of intuitive mythologies is that they make available a language for public discussion and for the individual learning-experience.

jubilation: a feeling of great happiness, especially because of a success.

Sentence – During a day of extraordinary jubilation, more than 100,000 people poured through the increasingly open border to the West.

lobbyist: someone who tries to persuade a politician or official group to do something.

Sentence – Indeed, there are times when the lobbyist will act more out of loyalty to his network than to his client.

longevity: living for a long time.

Sentence – There is an 11-year difference in longevity between babies born in the richest and the poorest postcodes in Britain.

mundane: very ordinary and therefore not interesting.

Sentence – Couldn’t you place the bends on mundane stretches of the road and leave the spectacular views cleared for observation and enjoyment?

nonchalant: behaving in a calm manner, often in a way that suggests you are not interested or do not care.

Sentence – He looked nonchalant enough as he strolled along the Bayswater Road, but inwardly Creed was a mess of nerves.

opulent: expensive and luxurious.

Sentence – The Castle of Augustusburg is the opulent residence of the prince-archbishops of Cologne while the Castle of Falkenlust is a hunting lodge.

orator: someone who is good at public speaking.

Sentence – On the other hand Osman was a practised orator and knew what he was doing.

ostentatious: too obviously showing your money, possessions, or power, in an attempt to make other people notice and admire you.

Sentence – Seeing this drama of yours, I thought it was ostentatious, but when Ramesh told me then I was convinced.

parched: (especially of earth or crops) dried out because of too much heat and not enough rain.

Sentence – The parched remnants were, for Roosevelt, a stark object lesson in the need for animal protection.

perfidious: unable to be trusted, or showing no loyalty.

Sentence – In your language traitor means betrayer : one is perfidious, treacherous, unfaithful, disloyal.

pragmatic: solving problems in a sensible way that suits the conditions that really exist now, rather than obeying fixed theories, ideas, or rules.

Sentence – To achieve electoral success, pragmatic parties might shift their position or expand the range of viewpoints they encompass.