IELTS Vocabulary

To thoroughly defeat or overcome an opponent

The state of feeling very sleepy

Relating to birth

Lacking flavor or interest; dull

Compensation for loss or damage; protection from liability

A thin thread-like strand; dietary roughage; moral character (British spelling of fiber)

Journalism that tells stories primarily through photographs

To copy another's work and pass it off as one's own

A circular current of water or air; to swirl in circles

Dull, monotonous, and lacking variety

The punctuation mark ('); a rhetorical address to an absent person

To triple in amount; the highest musical voice or part; three times as much

Waste material left after smelting metal; to produce slag

Arriving or acting exactly on time

A public official who certifies documents and witnesses signatures

Willing and happy to help others

A diagram showing relationships between quantities; to plot such a diagram

A device that tells time using a shadow cast by sunlight

To walk unsteadily like a small child; a tottering gait

Either of the two latitude lines bounding the tropics; of or relating to the tropics

An optical instrument for viewing from a concealed position, as used in submarines

Calm and peaceful; the Pacific Ocean

Pieces of furniture for sleeping; plots for plants; rock layers

To shorten a text while keeping essential content; to curtail

Silly, pointless, and self-satisfied; vacuously stupid

Able to be logically defended or justified; well-founded

Abundant or excessive in quantity

A student absent without permission; to play truant; absent without leave

Currently existing; having real being

To ask someone earnestly; to beg or plead

To walk slowly while dragging the feet; a shuffling gait

A grammar word linking a noun or pronoun to other words in a sentence

A ceremonial low-level flight; an overpass road or bridge

Prudent, shrewd, and tactful in managing affairs

A kind act or goodwill; to prefer or support someone

To grow or expand rapidly; a new bud or shoot

Recorded on film; covered with a thin layer

To swell or expand due to internal pressure

A farming tool for breaking soil; to turn over soil for planting

To ask for information or investigate something

To isolate or keep apart from others

An official permit; to grant official permission

Infectious or contagious; attractively appealing

The right to occupy property by paying rent; the period of such occupation

To confuse or perplex someone greatly

Preventing sound from passing through; to make resistant to sound

Extremely nervous or upset; overly elaborate

A showy display of wealth or ability intended to impress others