Wednesday 28 September 2016

41 USEFUL VOCABULARY WORDS FOR IELTS EXAM





LEARN VOCABULARY STEP BY STEP:

1.Lucrative:(profitable)
     Example:He found a lucrative assignment.

2.Obstreperous:(unruly)
      Example:  Few teachers have been spared the problem of an obstreperous pupil in the class.

3.Oblivious:(unmindful)
     Example:  The novel was so interesting that i was oblivious of my surroundings.

4.Languishing:(suffering)
    Example: The prisoner had been languishing in the jail for the last many years.

5.Onerous:(burdensome)
     Example:  Remembering Indian History is an onerous task.

6.Sycophant:(flatterer)
    Example:  The base of Indian politicians is a group of sycophants hovering around them.

7.Eloquence:(power of speech)
    Example: The speaker impressed everybody by his eloquence.

8.Judicious:(careful)
 Example:  The old man was quite judicious in selecting things.

9.Camouflage:(misrepresent)
        Example:  Some people adopt excellent manners only to camouflage their real character.
    
10.Drowsy:(lazy and sleepy)
     Example: Feeling drowsy is the side effect of many antibiotics.

11.Euphoria:(pleasant excitement)
      Example:  After the announcement
of the election results,the party workers were in a state of euphoria.

12.Specious:(false)
     Example:  The specious promises of the mill-owner could not win the hearts of the laborers.

13.Vale:(valley)
   Example: The vale of Kashmir is known as the heaven upon the earth.

14.Rout:(complete defeat)
      Example:  It was not an ordinary defeat but a rout he could not bear.

15.Soothe:(to console)
    Example: His encouraging words soothed her pained heart.

16.Nexus:(link)
   Example:   The nexus between the underworld and the politicians is very disturbing.

17.Mutilate:(disfigure)
     Example: The car accident mutilated his arms and legs.

18.Outright:(complete)
   Example:  He is at the outright a traitor.

19.Stingy:(miser)
   Example:   Jews are stingy by nature.

20.Precocious:(prematurely developed)
     Example:  He was a precocious child who learnt to speak at the age of four.

21.Rage:(be angry)
   Example: The father raged at his son's failure.

22.Sinuous:(full of curves)
        Example:  The sinuous road journey of Kalka-Shimla is very thrilling.

23.Hoi polloi:(common people)
    Example: The prince does not associate with the hoi polloi.

24.Forebode:(foretell)
     Example: The enemy lying in wait and forebodes trouble.

25.Emulate:(copy)
    Example: We should emulate and not be jealous of the brilliant.

26.Discretion:(individual judgement)
       Example:  An umpire in a cricket match exercises a lot of discretion.

27.Corpus:(collection)
     Example:I have the whole corpus of Shakespear's play and poetry.

28.Pivotal:(important)
     Example: Prime minister occupies a pivotal position in the Indian political system.

29.Solicit:(make a request)
       Example: We solicit your gracious presence at the inauguration.

30.Mentor:(guide)
        Example:  Gandhi ji was Nehru's political mentor.

31.Symptoms:(indication or sign)
        Example:  Symptoms of cold are coughing,sneezing,headache and more.

32.Innovation:(change or alteration)
     Example:  A great innovation for mankind was the invention of the wheel.

33.Halt:(stop)
     Example:  Production of the new car was halted when problem was noticed in its design.

34.Carnage:(mass killing or blood shed)
     Example:  There was carnage on the road from careless truck drivers.

35.Radical:(fundamental)
       Example:  There is a redical increase in the world population.

36.Tarred:(spoilt)
      Example: His reputation has been tarred.

37.Intervention:(interface)
    Example: Without my intervention,she would have sprinkled salt instead of sugar on the cookies.

38.Propulsion:(driving or pushing forward)
      Example: The new airplane's propulsion was not good as it crashed during the take off.

39.Accelerating:(increasing the speed)
      Example: My car has a V8 engine with terrific accelerating power.

40.Throughput:(amount of material put into processes)
       Example: The annual throughout of water in Antarctica corresponds after the accident.

41.Compensate:(repay)
     Example:  He received 5 lac rupees as compensation after the accident.


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