IELTS Vocabulary CEP publishing + Best Flashcards
Ablation
The removal of snow and ice from a glacier or iceberg by melting or evaporation
Example: It provides an estimate of how much precipitation or temperature change must be invoked to explain the current net ablation of the glacier
Acclaim
Praise enthusiastically and publicly
Example: They are some of the most committed people I know and should be publicly acclaimed
Accolade
An expression of praise, where someone is given an award or a privilege, to acknowledge their merit
Example: My doctor received an accolade for an extraordinary role in medicine
Acumen
Means skill in making correct and quick decisions and judgments.
Example: He has the acumen to make good business decisions
Adamant
Refusing to be persuaded or to change one’s mind
Example: Sampson is adamant in her belief that language requirements for admission should be stricter.
Adherence
This means the fact of someone behaving exactly according to rules, beliefs, etc.
Example: Strict adherence to the constitution
Adjure
- Means to command solemnly
- Ask for or request earnestly
- To order someone to do a something
Example: I adjured them not to break laws
Admission
Is a statement acknowledging the truth of something
Example: An admission of a guilt
Adulterate
- Means to make (something) impure or weaker by adding something of inferior quality
- To make a substance less pure by adding something else to it
Example: Adulterate the lemonade with water
Affectation
- A deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
- Something that is not part of your personality but that you do to impress people
Example: Her French accent is an affectation; a cheap trick to impress her boyfriend.
Affordable
That you have the financial means for
Examples:
- Without better schools, affordable housing, and more jobs, the city will degrade socially and economically and people will leave.
- Their goal has been to make the devices more widely available, affordable, familiar, and popular.
Alacrity
- Brisk and cheerful readiness
- Quickly and with enthusiasm
Example: She accepted the money with alacrity
Aluminium
- The chemical element of atomic number 13, a light silvery-grey metal.
- A silver-white metallic element, light in weight and not easily corroded or tarnished, used in alloys and for lightweight products.
Example: Officials said materials made of plastic, aluminium, glass and metals will have to be recycled.
Algae
A simple, non-flowering, and typically aquatic plant of a large assemblage that includes the seaweeds and many single-celled forms. Algae contain chlorophyll but lack true stems, roots, leaves, and vascular tissue.
Example: It is a blue-green alga, a primitive plant of the same class as seaweeds or the green slime seen on rocks and jetties when uncovered by the sea at low tide.
Alleviate
- Means to make something easier to deal with or endure
- To make something bad less severe
Example: Alleviate the pain
Allure
Means the quality of being attractive, exciting, or interesting
Example: The allure of this romantic city
Allusion
Is a figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person, or event.
Example: When she lost her job, she acted like a Scrooge (alluding to Dicken’s Christmas Carol) and refused to buy anything that wasn’t necessary
Amalgamate
To bring together, unite; to combine different things to create something new.
Example: The firm has amalgamated with an American company.
Ambiguity
Means something unclear or confusing or it can be understood in more than one way
Example: There are some ambiguities in the legislation.
Amend
Means to make minor changes to the text (a piece of legislation, etc.) in order to make it more fair or accurate or to reflect changing circumstances
Example: Every attempt to amend the constitution has, however, been unsuccessful.
Amicable
- Means friendly, agreeable
- Characterized by or showing goodwill, peaceable
Amplitude
Amplitude is the objective measurement of the degree of change (positive or negative) in atmospheric pressure (the compression and rarefaction of air molecules) caused by sound waves.
Ample
- Enough or more than enough
- Plentiful
Example: A landing between the ground and first floors is ample enough to be used as a study.
Amusing
Entertaining and funny; causing laugh
Example: An amusing story.
Anagram
Is a word or phrase made by transposing the letters of another word or phrase.
Example: For the word secure is an anagram of rescue; the angel is an anagram of glean; the state is an anagram of taste, etc.
Anew
Once more; again; in a new, typically more positive, way
Example: Let’s start anew
Angle for
Try to get something indirectly, by hinting or suggesting
Example: She’s been angling for an invitation, but I don’t want him to come.
Anxious
Feeling or showing worry, nervousness
Example: I am very anxious about him
Apotheosis
Is the glorification of a subject to divine level; the highest point in the development of something; a culmination.
Example: Most of all it was moved by the prospect of its own apotheosis
Appease
Make peace with; pacify or placate (someone) by acceding to their demands
Example: She claimed that the government had only changed the law in order to appease their critics
Apprise
Means to inform somebody of something
Example: We must apprise them of the dangers that may be involved
Mean (v) (6)
- to intend to convey or express
- intend
Example: she didn’t mean to hurt it
- to say or do in all seriousness
Example: the boss means what he says about strikes
- to destine or design (often followed by for / for a certain person or purpose)
Example: she was meant for greater things
- to denote or connote; signify; represent
- to produce; cause
Example: the weather will mean long traffic delays
- to foretell; portend
Example: those dark clouds mean rain
- to have the importance of
Example: money means nothing to him
- to have the intention of behaving or acting (esp in the phrases mean well or mean ill)
Mean (adj.) (6)
- chiefly brit miserly, ungenerous, or petty
- despicable, ignoble, or callous: a mean action
- poor or shabby: mean clothing, a mean abode
- informal chiefly us canadian bad-tempered; vicious
- informal ashamed: he felt mean about not letting the children go to the zoo
- slang excellent; skilful: he plays a mean trombone
- no mean ⇒ of high quality: no mean performer
- difficult: no mean feat
Mean (noun) (2)
- the middle point, state, or course between limits or extremes
- moderation
- the second and third terms of a proportion, as b and c in a/b = c/d
- another name for average
- a statistic obtained by multiplying each possible value of a variable by its probability and then taking the sum or integral over the range of the variable
Meanly (adv.) (3)
- in a poor, lowly, or humble manner.
- in a base, contemptible, selfish, or shabby manner.
- in a stingy or miserly manner.
- moderately.
Arguably
Something that may be argued or shown by argument; used to say that something is very possibly true even if it’s not quite true
Example: Medium hair is arguably the most popular length
Arid
Means extremely dry or deathly boring. If you describe something as arid, you mean that it has so no interest, excitement, or purpose that it makes you feel unhappy and bored.
Example: …new strains of crips that can withstand arid conditions.
She had given him the only joy his arid life had ever known.
…the politically arid years of the military dictatorship in the 1960s and ’70s.
Abscission
The natural detachment of parts of a plant, typically dead leaves and ripe fruit.
Example: The presence and balance of plant hormones have been shown to affect the abscission of leaves, flowers, and immature and mature fruits.
Ethylene is involved in many biological processes, like fruit ripening, flower and leaf abscission, senescence, many stress acclimations, and growth.
Agricultural
Relating to agriculture
Example: Agricultural land covers 33% of the world’s land area, with arable land representing less than one-third of agricultural land.
Account
- A record or narrative description of past events
- A statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance
Example: Some of the witnesses’ accounts initially given to the investigators differ from each other, which helps explain why separate trials were ordered for them.
Many banks and building societies are competing for customers by offering better interest rates or incentives on current accounts, rather than saving accounts.
Agronomy
The science of soil management and crop production.
Example: The core group excludes several private colleges and universities as well as some public intitutions that produce agronomy and crop science graduates but which are not part of the land grant system.
Rwanda’s minister of agriculture sent teams of agronomists to assess making land available for refugee settlement.
Accomplice
A person who helps another commit a crime
Example: The pile in Amsterdam were able to round up six of his alleged accomplices after the crime, and are seeking more.
Adoptive
(of a child or parent) in that relationship by adoption.
Example: As a teenager, he had contacted by his brother’s adoptive parents and had been to forge a new relationship with him.
Amenity
Something that makes life easier or more enjoyable
Example: Amenities include a concierge, a wet bar, a library and a fitness center, along with indoor and outdoor observation areas.
Amphibian
A cold-blooded vertebrate animal of a class that comprises the frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, and caecilians.
Example: Spadefoot toads are desert-dwelling amphibians that breed opportunistically in short-lived pools filled by periodic rainfall.
Algorithm
A process or set of rules to be followed by calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer.
Example: This first step is here reduced to a simple algorithm suitable for computer use.
