Vocabulary for IELTS
Alacrity – speed and eagerness.
Sentence – The offer was accepted with alacrity and Harry has been writing these little vignettes for the paper ever since.
Accord – (a formal) agreement.
Sentence – The accord was meant to meet immediate requirements
Ensue – to happen after something else, especially as a result of it.
Sentence – If we can’t bring our problems under control, feelings of powerlessness and despair often ensue.
Gibe – an insulting remark intended to make someone look foolish.
Sentence – It is unkind to gibe at a foreign student’s English,even though it may sound amusing.
Generate – to cause something to exist.
Sentence – By investing in efficient plant it could generate lots of valuable carbon credits to sell to wealthier, more wasteful nations.
Frustrate – to make someone feel annoyed or less confident because they cannot achieve what they want.
Sentence – He tried to frustrate his political opponents by denying them access to the media.
Fluctuate – to change, especially continuously and between one level or thing and another.
Sentence – The mortgage rates may fluctuate, but the administration and the repayments remain the same until the time comes to adjust.
Fiasco – something planned that goes wrong and is a complete failure, usually in an embarrassing way.
Sentence – The party was a total fiasco because the wrong date was given on the invitations.
Feasible – able to be made, done, or achieved.
Sentence – This is perfectly feasible by a system of fixed and moveable compartmentation, but no one has yet produced a practical system.
Fatuous – stupid, not correct, or not carefully thought about.
Sentence – I think we should move onto something perhaps a little more fatuous.
Exploit – to use something in a way that helps you.
Sentence – The opposition parties will always exploit government problems to their own advantage.
Expatiate – to speak or write about something in great detail or for a long time.
Sentence – The chairman expatiated for two hours on his plans for the company.
Evaluate – to judge or calculate the quality, importance, amount, or value of something.
Sentence – They will bring it here, and you will help us to evaluate.
Estimate – to guess or calculate the cost, size, value, etc. of something.
Sentence – I don’t know for sure, but this time, the rough estimate says the opposition party will win.
Entreat – to try very hard to persuade someone to do something.
Sentence – And he beseeched me to entreat your Majesties To hear and see the matter.
Accede – to agree to do what people have asked you to do.
Sentence – They could do no other than accede to the demands of the victors.
Effete – weak and without much power.
Sentence – He studied the Gascon’s dark effete face and the jewel-encrusted pearl which swung arrogantly from one ear lobe.
Edict – an official order, especially one that is given in a forceful and unfair way.
Sentence – He issued an edict that none of his writings be destroyed.
Divulge – to make something secret known.
Sentence – Barclays Bank would not divulge its figures despite repeated requests over a period of three weeks.
Distribute – to give something out to several people, or to spread or supply something.
Sentence – Third party distributors are used to distribute the product in areas where the group does not have offices.
Discursive – involving discussion.
Sentence – What Brooke-Rose does with discursive and textual matter in much of her previous fiction she does here with personae.
