Vocabulary For IELTS

capitulate: to accept military defeat.

Sentence – Watching an insipid and familiarly witless England side capitulate to Spain, those other European rank underachievers?

clairvoyant: a person who says they have powers to see the future or see things that other people cannot see

Sentence – Patsy Kensit plays a clairvoyant cop who sees in her mind bits and pieces of crimes before they are committed.

collaborate: to work with someone else for a special purpose.

Sentence – It also enables multiple users to share data, collaborate and automate tasks without writing any extra code, via Workmap.

compassion: a strong feeling of sympathy and sadness for the suffering or bad luck of others and a wish to help them.

Sentence – Compassion rose up in my heart when I saw the beggar drop dead in the street.

compromise: an agreement in an argument in which the people involved reduce their demands or change their opinion in order to agree.

Sentence – The foreign ministers have thrashed out a suitable compromise formula.

condescending: treating someone as if you are more important or more intelligent than them.

Sentence – The statement, sympathetic but faintly condescending, was suited to an era of comity already long past.

conditional: (relating to) a sentence, often starting with “if” or “unless”, in which one half expresses something which depends on the other half.

Sentence – The Loan Agreement will be conditional upon the completion and final acceptance of the refurbishment of the Villahermosa Palace.

conformist: someone who behaves or thinks like everyone else, rather than being different.

Sentence – Research shows that pupils who are good at maths tend to be more conformist and obedient than other pupils.

convergence: the fact that two or more things, ideas, etc. become similar or come together.

Sentence – What the New Critics emphasized was convergence within the text rather than deviation from an external standard.

deleterious: harmful.

Sentence – Apart from random fluctuations, the deleterious effect of too short and too long spacing is seen for each order birth.

demagogue: a person, especially a political leader, who wins support by exciting the emotions of ordinary people rather than by having good or morally right ideas.

Sentence – Democrats believe that Earth Day is a special day for them to demagogue and politicize environmental issues.

digression: the action of moving away from the main subject you are writing or talking about and writing or talking about something else.

Sentence – Even the digression up to Cajamarca now seemed in retrospect more like an adventure than something to send shivers down the spine.

diligent: careful and using a lot of effort.

Sentence – A diligent person, although because of his hard work and damage to his spiritual insight or fresh and creative, but he still will be praised.

discredit: to cause people to stop respecting someone or believing in an idea or person.

Sentence – Sylvia does not get on with the supervisor and the danger is that he will trump up some charge to discredit her.

disdain: the feeling of not liking someone or something and thinking that they do not deserve your interest or respect.

Sentence – But the disdain of these accomplished economists for supply-side economics can easily be deduced from their writings and congressional testimony.