Vocabulary For IELTS

Aberration – a temporary change from the typical or usual way of behaving.

Sentence – The views expressed by Rice were not an aberration; they were a reflection of the Bush camp’s views.

Abhorrence – tohate a way of behaving or thinking, often because you think it is not moral.

Sentence – He leaves office with near-record-high approval ratings despite widespread abhorrence at his personal behavior, pollsters say.

Accelerate – When a vehicle or its driver accelerates, the speed of the vehicle increases.

Sentence – Scrapping activity, however, might accelerate in coming years.

Accumulate – to collect a large number of things over a long period of time.

Sentence – In that situation failure to accumulate in the face of rapidly rising real wage costs spells disaster.

Accuracy – the fact of being exact or correct.

Sentence – At first he insisted on the accuracy of his account, however, he agreed with what I said.

Acquiesce – to accept or agree to something, often unwillingly.

Sentence – There are no plans to do acquiesce to comply with the president’s request on the authorized package.

Advent – thefact of an event happening, an invention being made, or a person arriving.

Sentence – The advent of motorized transportation further improved communications.

Adversity – a difficult or unlucky situation or event.

Sentence – Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

Advocate – to publicly support or suggest an idea, development, or way of doing something.

Sentence – Become an advocate for your child.

Alumnus – someone who has left a school, college, or university after finishing their studies there.

Sentence – The alumni don’t want to hear it, but the previous coaching regime vastly oversold the goods.

Ambiguous – having or expressing more than one possible meaning, sometimes intentionally.

Sentence – These ambiguous and contradictory percentages lead to no clear.

Ambivalent – having two opposing feelings at the same time, or being uncertain about how you feel.

Sentence – The party’s position on nuclear weapons is deeply ambivalent.

Analogy – a comparison between things that have similar features, often used to help explain a principle or idea.

Sentence – Let’s use a stock market analogy to answer this question.

Antique – something made in an earlier period that is collected and considered to have value because it is beautiful, rare, old, or of high quality.

Sentence – You can’t give away Granny’s old bookcase – it’s a valuable antique.

Appetite – the feeling that you want to eat food.

Sentence – Having little or no appetite in the morning.

Appease – to prevent further disagreement in arguments or war by giving to the opposing side an advantage that they have demanded.

Sentence – Your families should be proud… for your sacrifice will appease the gods, and protect all that live in our great city.

Apprehensive – feeling worried about something that you are going to do or that is going to happen.

Sentence – Understandably, she was apprehensive, being the only woman among so many men.

Arbitrary – based on chance rather than being planned or based on reason.

Sentence – The boundaries of this house have been drawn arbitrary so that the neighbours do not suffer from our actions.

Archaeology – the study of the buildings, graves, tools, and other objects that belonged to people who lived in the past, in order to learn about their culture and society.

Sentence – Her book is still a standard text in archaeology, even though it was written more than twenty years ago.