Vocabulary for IELTS – Part 5

Arrogate – to claim or seize without justification

Sentence – Governments should not be deluded into thinking that they can arrogate to themselves powers that they do not and cannot possess.

Blandishment – something, as an action or speech, that tends to flatter, coax, entice, etc.

Sentence – But this remedy fails to confront the reality of a male youth culture nearly immune to all the blandishments of established society.

Bilk – to defraud; cheat

Sentence – City police expresses east, current, network bilk case and photograph comparing in ascendant trend last year.

Congruity – the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate

Sentence – Moral construction of higher schools must be emphasized the congruity of theory and practice, knowing and doing.

Cupidity – strong desire, esp for possessions or money; greed

Sentence – A method for seal identification is proposed, which based on cupidity algorithm and polygon triangulation cutting algorithm in computational geometry.

Ephemeral – lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory

Sentence – Likewise, those that thought they were too ephemeral and effervescent, began to appreciate them.

Exhort – to try to influence (someone) by words or advice : to strongly urge (someone) to do something

Sentence – He exhorted delegates to fight corruption, bureaucracy and incompetence.

Flagrant – conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

Sentence – If a flagrant oversight like this could occur it says little for the prospects of men of lowly status being correctly recorded.

Grandiloquence –  a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language

Sentence – This will be hard because of the excesses of grandiloquence the politicians have indulged in.

Inane – lacking sense, significance, or ideas; silly.

Sentence – Penelope began an inane conversation about a recent best seller she had read.

Laconic – using few words; expressing much in few words; concise

Sentence – Both depictions, as laconic and witty as Degas can be, show Cassatt engaged in passive and typically feminine pastimes.

Maverick – an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party

Sentence – Narendra was some kind of new thing, a maverick, rooted in the traditional but open to new ways of being.

Munificent – very generous

Sentence – Our property was confiscated, and loaned back to us by a munificent state.

Proclivity – a strong natural liking for something that is usually bad

Sentence – I don’t have access to the Oxford English Corpus so I don’t know exactly what it would make of “proclivity” but here’s what I did.

Subjugate –to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master

Sentence – Saving the earth does not master the earth and does not subjugate it, which is merely one step from spoliation.

Surreptitious – obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized

Sentence – Mr. Needham I know of no surreptitious exercise being carried out by my Department in regard to private taxi firms in Belfast.

Trite – not interesting or effective because of being used too often : not fresh or original

Sentence – Contrived plotting, such as marriages of convenience, trite misunderstandings and mistaken identities, should be avoided.

Ubiquitous – existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time; omnipresent

Sentence – An ubiquitous feature of post-colonialism is the dominance of the state in the process of capital accumulation.

Vociferous – expressing feelings or opinions in a very loud or forceful way

Sentence – However, all the leading architectural journals were vociferous in their support for Scott.

Zephyr – a gentle, mild breeze

Sentence – She was able to take centre stage, providing comic relief while Zephyr shared intimate moments with her special friends.