IELTS Vocabulary

A business or company; a bold undertaking; initiative and drive

A kind helpful act; goodwill toward someone; to prefer or support

Clearly obvious; seeming true but not necessarily so

The digestive organ in the body; the belly; to tolerate something unpleasant

To set up equipment or software for use; to place someone in an official position

Easily affected by stimuli or emotions; responsive to others' feelings

An idea put forward for consideration; a hint

Letters and packages sent by post; to send by post or email

Instructions for preparing food; a method for achieving a result

Fair and sensible; not excessive

Basic, fundamental, or very simple; relating to primary education

Prone to attacking or arguing; forceful and determined

A public musical performance; to plan together

A passage for water; a TV or radio frequency; a means of communication; to direct along a course

Of the highest degree or intensity; the utmost point or degree

A hollow cylindrical pipe or container; the London Underground

To stop or leave; to give up

A large organic molecule made of amino acids, essential to life and nutrition

A place of confinement for people in custody; to put someone in prison

The speed of movement or progress; to walk back and forth

The state of having a paid job; the act of hiring someone

A person who speaks or gives speeches; a loudspeaker

A short written composition on a subject; to attempt something

A person who studies or writes about history

To bring back to a former condition; to return something to its owner

Large and important; real and solid

A short sharp sound; a fizzy drink; popular music

The beginning or source of something; a person's background or ancestry

Official permission or agreement; a positive opinion of someone or something

The distance downward from a surface; intensity or complexity

A large amount of money or valuable possessions; an abundance

A hard outer covering; an artillery projectile; to remove the shell or bombard

Relating to biology or living things; related by birth

In a way that produces the desired result; in practice

A person who acts on behalf of or assists a superior

Having a level surface; dull or lifeless; an apartment on one floor

A trademark or product identity; a mark burned onto something; to label or stigmatize

To tell someone confidently that something is true; to guarantee

A prize given for achievement; to officially give a prize or honor

By way of; passing through; by means of

Usefulness; a public service such as electricity or water

To come into existence or become apparent; to get up

In spite of that; however

A regular sequence of habitual actions; ordinary and done as standard procedure

A substance in a mixture or food; a necessary element for achieving something

A pointed post driven into the ground; money risked on an outcome; to put at risk

A thin thread-like strand; dietary roughage; moral character

A person who flees to safety from war, persecution, or disaster