Vocabulary for IELTS
Succumb – to lose the determination to oppose something; to accept defeat.
Sentence – Malnourished children are more likely to succumb to infections.
Scavenge – to look for or get food or other objects in other people’s rubbish.
Sentence – Unlike most other fabled beasts it preferred to scavenge carrion from the forest floor rather than kill for fresh meat.
Frugal – careful when using money or food, or (of a meal) cheap or small in amount.
Sentence – Davies was a rugged, frugal, self-made capitalist, a relentless business competitor, who remained close to his chapel roots.
Fought – fight.
Sentence – She had fought many battles, vanquished many foes.
Dissemble – to hide your real intentions and feelings or the facts.
Sentence – Perhaps it is right to dissemble your love. But – why do you kick me downstairs?
Scavenger hunt- a game in which people must collect a number of items in a given period of time without buying them.
Sentence – The city, though, was a sparkly scavenger hunt and the prospect of office drag and a trudging predetermined trajectory sent me reeling into a panic attack.
Refund – an amount of money that is given back to you, especially because you are not happy with a product or service that you have bought.
Sentence – I still haven’t had my refund from the tax department – it’s like waiting for Godot.
Healthy – strong and well.
Sentence – The love of beauty is an essential part of all healthy human nature.
Cobble – a rounded stone used on the surface of an old-fashioned road.
Sentence – The Wisconsin experiment proved one could cobble together a fair approximation of a prairie.
Avant-garde – the painters, writers, musicians, and other artists whose ideas, styles, and methods are very original or modern in comparison to the period in which they live, or the work of these artists.
Sentence – His avant–garde music, sometime cousin to jazz, had limited appeal.
Yield – to supply or produce something positive such as a profit, an amount of food or information.
Sentence – It’s very easy to yield to temptation and spend too much money.
Strangle – to kill someone by pressing their throat so that they cannot breathe.
Sentence – She tried to strangle her baby and her lover helped her finish the evil deed.
Scrupulous – extremely honest.
Sentence – You must be scrupulous about hygiene when you’re preparing a baby’s feed.
Resource – a useful or valuable possession or quality of a country, organization, or person.
Sentence – Given the resource implications involved, the plan will have to be scaled down.
Drought – a long period when there is little or no rain.
Sentence – A fifth year of drought is expected to have dramatic effects on the California economy.
Complain – to say that something is wrong or not satisfactory.
Sentence – Don’t complain about things you are not willing to work hard to change.
Approach – to come near or nearer to something or someone in space, time, quality, or amount.
Sentence – The approach taken by US courts has been more progressive than that in Britain.
Topsoil – (the soil which forms) the top layer of ground in which plants grow.
Sentence – The topsoil could then be pushed back across the site and to all appearances undisturbed agricultural land was left.
Tip – to (cause to) move so that one side is higher than another side.
Sentence – We must deal with pleasure as we do with honey, only touch them with the tip of the finger, and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit.
