IELTS Vocabulary

A distinctive smell or fragrance; to detect by smell

An orderly pile; to arrange in a pile; to manipulate unfairly

A large storage bag; to dismiss from a job; to plunder a captured place

To stop or come to an end

To receive property or traits from a predecessor or parent

A book used for study; perfectly typical or exemplary

To become smaller; to flinch; informally, a psychiatrist

Unpleasant, dirty, or unkind

A small round spot or point; to mark with dots

Based on reason and logic; sensible

Extremely violent, aggressive, or intense; ferocious

A passageway between rows of seats or shelves

Official rules or procedures; a diplomatic agreement; a computing communication standard

Only; solely; without including anything or anyone else

An area of land and its physical features

Not fair or just; biased or dishonest

To draw someone's attention away from what they are doing

A person who makes plans; a notebook for organizing tasks

A praiseworthy quality or achievement; to deserve something

A thick irregular piece of something; a substantial amount

A reduction in price; to reduce the price of something

A dense tropical forest; a ruthlessly competitive environment

The movement of people or animals from one place to another

To enter by force to conquer; to overrun or encroach upon

A severe tropical storm with very strong winds and heavy rain

To arrange into categories; to designate as secret

To move with light hops; to omit or pass over something

A top-ranking diplomat representing their country abroad; an official representative

Something that triggers a response or encourages action

In the same way; also

To lower briefly into liquid; a slight downward slope or decrease

A perfectly round three-dimensional object; a field of activity or influence

To brag or speak with excessive pride; a boastful statement

Only; single and exclusive; the bottom of a foot or shoe

To make or become more firm or secure

Public attention or promotional activity designed to attract it

To open something folded; to develop or be revealed

The quality of being logically sound or legally acceptable

An unwanted wild plant; to remove unwanted plants or elements

Incomplete or affecting only part of something; biased or unfair

The act of obeying rules or requests; yielding to others' wishes

According to what is generally believed or claimed

To consider or regard something in a particular way

A brief, incomplete look; to see something briefly

A statement assumed as the basis for an argument; a building and its grounds

To interrupt someone's peace or calm; to cause worry or distress

Scattered fragments or wreckage after destruction

Empty, without writing or expression; an empty space to fill in