Vocabulary for IELTS Topic 1 : People
1. Adolescent - teenager
2. Characteristic typical feature
3. Individual - person
4. Reliable - can be trusted
5. Conscious - aware
6. Sibling - brother or sister
7. Responsibility - duty
8. Resemble - look like
9. Bond - close tie or link
10. Inherent - natural or instinctive
1. Self-esteem - belief in yourself
2. Stereotypical - having typical qualities
3. Fallible - able to make mistakes and be wrong
4. Sociable - friendly or seeking company
5. Tendency - recurring action or behavior
6. Gender - sex ( male or female )
7. Lifetime - period of time you're alive
8. Empathize - understand someone's feelings
9. Hardwired - automatic behavior
10. Habitually -usually or repeatedly
Vocabulary for IELTS Topic 2 : Health & Fitness
1. Allergic - react badly to
2. Harmful - unsafe
3. Appetite - desire for food
4. Lifestyle - the way you live
5. Ingredients - contents of food
6. Recovery - getting better ( from illness)
7. Hunger - need for food
8. Treatment - medical care
9. Nutritious - full of Vitamins
10. Suffer - feel pain
1. Sedentary - sitting a lot or inactive
2. Psychological - mental
3. Beneficial - helpful or positive
4. Detrimental - harmful or negative
5. Intake - amount you take in
6. Eradicate - get rid of or eliminate or wipe out
7. Well-being - health and happiness
8. Severity - how serious something is
9. Preventive - deterrent
10. Additives - chemicals added to food
Vocabulary for IELTS Topic 3 : Science
1. Elementary - basic
2. Combine - mix together
3. Analyze - examine in detail
4. Exposure - in contact with
5. Detergent - soap
6. Side effects - unwanted reaction
7. Basis - the principal idea
8. Toxic - poisonous
9. Fertilizer - plant food
10. Contaminated - polluted
1. Ascertain - make sure or establish
2. Breakthrough - important new discovery
3. Release - allow to escape (gas ) or give off
4. Accumulate - collect over time, gather or build up
5. Absorb - take in or soak up (liquid or gas)
6. Synthetic - man made or artificial
7. Potential - ability or capability
8. Advances - progress or developments
9. Precise - exact or accurate
10. Quantify - count or measure
Vocabulary for IELTS Topic 4 : Community
1. Antisocial - against society
2. Conform - follow the rules
3. Cooperate - work together
4. Mindset - attitude
5. Minority - small percentage
6. Shun - avoid
7. Conventional - traditional
8. Interaction - communication
9. Pressure - stress
10. Conduct - behavior
1. Considerate - kind and helpful or thoughtful
2. Mainstream - common or average (ideas)
3. Civilization - culturally advance human society
4. Supportive - helpful and encouraging
5. Appropriate - suitable
6. Engage - join in or get involved
7. Voluntary - done willingly or without payment
8. Charitable - helping the poor or needy
9. Foster - help something grow (attitude or idea)
10. Multicultural - having many different cultures
Vocabulary for IELTS Topic 5 : Study
[Link] - academic or not proven
2. Educational - academic / educative
3. Acquire - gain or get
4. Compulsory - must be done
5. Valid - reasonable
6. Determine - discover or find out
7. Establish - prove
8. Significant - important
9. Review - check or go over
10. Concentrate - think very hard
1. Specialize - concentrate on one subject
2. Profound - deep or intense (effect or feeling)
3. Cognitive - connected to thinking or mental
4. Curiosity - desire to know or find out /interest
5. Achievement - reaching a goal or success
6. Failure - lack of success or collapse
7. Determination - trying hard or not giving up
8. Miscalculation - bad judgement or calculation
9. Collaborate - work together with
10. Methodical - in a careful or ordered way
Vocabulary for IELTS Topic 6 : Advertising
1. Persuade - get to agree
2. Convinced - assure
3. Unavoidable - certain to happen
4. Commercialized - focused on profit
5. Effective - achieving its aims
6. Ploy - trick or gimmick
7. Visualize - mentally picture
8. Intrusive - not welcome
9. Promote - advertise
10. Exaggerate - magnify the truth
1. Ignore - pay no attention
2. Endorse - recommend a product or brand
3. Guarantee - promise that S will happen
4. Gullible - easily tricked or too trusting
5. Prominent - noticeable / stand out
6. Pressure - forcefully persuade compel
7. Incorporate - use / include / contain
8. Entice - persuade by offering something / tempt
9. Bombard - attack continuously / pester
10. Inescapable - cannot be avoided/ unavoidable
Vocabulary for IELTS Topic 7 : Travel & Places
1. Memorable - unforgettable
2. Inhabitants - people living in a place
3. Custom - local tradition
4. Attract - act like a magnet
5. Remote - distant/ far away
6. Spectacular - amazing
7. Landscape - large area of countryside
8. Outweigh - be more important than
9. Basic - simple/ not luxurious
10. Barren - without plants
1. Caution - avoiding risks / wary
2. Wander - walk without aim / stroll / roam
3. Adventurous - willing to try new thing / daring
4. Spontaneous - act without planning / unplanned
5. Unspoiled - beautiful or undamaged (place)
6. Wilderness - land not used
7. Paradise - a perfect place
8. Leisurely - in a relaxed way / not rushed
9. foreign - strange or unfamiliar
10. Rival - be good as something else
Vocabulary for IELTS Topic 8 : Government
1. Blame - accuse
2. Childcare - care for children
3. Govern - control a place
4. Provide - give/ make/ available
5. Regulation - official rule
6. Depend - need help support
7. Entitlement - right or privilege
8. Healthcare - care for the sick
9. Oppose - be against
10. Assistance - help / aid
1. Guideline - official advice / rules
2. Consensus - general agreement / unity
3. Instill - put and idea or feeling in something mind
4. Taxpayer - person paying tax / ordinary citizens
5. Corrupt - dishonest / abusing their power
6. Expenditure - total amount a government spends
7. Resolve - firmly decide / undertake
8. Authority - legal power / right
9. Instability - lack of stability or uncertainty
10. Bureaucracy - admin system / official procedure
Vocabulary for IELTS Topic 9 : Animals
1. Endangered - dying out
2. Venomous - poisonous
3. Domesticates - tame / not wild
4. Thrive - grow/ be successful
5. Predator - animals that hunt another
6. Vulnerable - easily hurt
7. Nocturnal - active at night
8. Dwindle - become smaller or fewer
9. Habitat - A natural environment
10. Prey - hunt / catch
1. Survival - continuing to live or exit
2. Co-exist - live in the same time or place
3. Abandon - leave permanently / desert
4. Captivity - the state of being locked up
5. Cruelty - behavior that causes pain
6. Sanctuary - safe or protected place
7. Defense - reaction to attack / self-protection
8. Conservation - protecting them
9. Colony -
10. Creature - living thing
Vocabulary for IELTS Topic 10 : Space
1. Explode - break up violently
2. Explore - search for a new area
3. Risky - dangerous
4. Debris - large broken pieces of satellite or space craft
5. Frightening - makes you afraid
6. Infinite - without end
7. Acclimatize - adjust / adapt / get used to
8. Fascinating - extremely interesting
9. Surface - top layer
10. Astronauts - working in space
1. Collide - crash into / strike
2. Universal - worldwide / existing everywhere
3. Misuse - bad usage of something
4. Boost - added power / increase
5. Hollow - empty inside
6. Prolonged - length / over a long time
7. Rotation - spinning / turning
8. Fragile - easily broken / delicate
9. Vertical - pointing going up
10. Transmit - send out (a signal)
Vocabulary for IELTS Topic 11 : Technology & Computer
1. Virtual - not real
2. Digital - computerized
3. Embrace - accept eagerly
4. Online - via the internet
5. Addicted - obsessed
6. Secure - safe
7. Cutting-edge - the very latest
8. Cyber-bullying - attacking online
9. Technological - relate to tech
10. Dated - old-fashioned
1. Appliances - domestic machine
2. Creativity - imagination / ingenuity
3. Surpass - beat / outperform / do or be better than
4. Run-down - neglected / in a bad condition
5. Hardware - the physical parts of computer
6. upgrade - improve the quality
7. Innovative - inventive / a new use of something
8. Computerized - run or controller by computer
9. Devise - come up with / invent
10. Equipped - have ( a tool ) included or attached
Vocabulary for IELTS Topic 12 : Fashion
1. Consumer - user of goods
2. Passing - short-lived
3. Trendy - fashionable
4. Lasting - long-term
5. Impulsive - acts without thinking
6. Consumerism - buying and owning goods
7. Purchase - something bought
8. Impractical - unsuitable for a situation
9. Discard - through away
10. Mass-produced - made on large scale
1. Ethical - morally right
2. Emerge - appear / arise
3. Disposable - intended to be thrown away
4. Second-hand - used / not new
5. Possessions - things you own / belongings
6. Donate - give money or goods to charity
7. Individual - what makes you different or unique
8. Impulse - sudden urge or desire
9. Manufacturer - company making goods / producer
10. Material - physical / related to possessions
Vocabulary for IELTS Topic 13 : City
1. Inadequate - not good enough
2. Transportation - means of travel
3. Pedestrian - person walking
4. Commute - journey to work
5. Pavement - service in an area
6. Overpopulated - having too many people
7. Slums - poor quality housing
8. Infrastructure - service in an area
9. Outskirts - edge of the city
10. Isolated - alone / separate
1. Imbalance - inequality / lack of balance
2. Overwhelmed - unable to cope / strongly affected
3. Shortage - lack / not enough of
4. Affluent - rich / wealthy / prosperous
5. Deprived - poor / disadvantaged
6. Congested - having too much traffic
7. Sanitation - system to remove dirty water or waste
8. Homelessness - the issue of people having no home
9. Poverty - the condition of being poor
10. Amenities - facilities / conveniences
Vocabulary for IELTS Topic 14 : Environment
1. Agricultural - agarian
2. Cultivate - make something grow
3. Disaster - terrible event or accident
4. Erosion - loss of soil
5. Environmental - circumambient
6. Logging - cutting down trees
7. Vital - very important
8. Irrigation - watering system
9. Impact - effect
10. Pesticide - insect killer
1. Urgent - pressing / needing quick attention
2. Pollutant - a substance that pollutes
3. Ecosystem - all living thing in an area
4. Vegetation - plants and tree in an area
5. Unprecedented - never seen before / unheard-of
6. Intervene - step in / become involved
7. Hazardous - dangerous to health or safety
8. Degrade - become spoiled or lower in quality
9. Safeguard - keep safe / protect
10. Deforestation - removal of tree / logging
Vocabulary for IELTS Topic 15 : Energy
1. Generate - produce
2. Alternative - not traditional
3. Harness - capture and use
4. Mining - digging up coal etc.
5. Renewable - can be made again
6. Sustainable - will not run out
7. Maximize - make the most of
8. Consumption - use / utilization
9. Curb - limit the use of
10. Emission - gases released
1. Abundant - in large quantities / plentiful
2. Regulate - control something with rules
3. Scarce - not easy to find / rare
4. Supply - give or provide a supply
5. Unsustainable - using more than can be replaced
6. Squander - waste (money , supplies or opportunity)
7. Exploit - take advantage or make the most of
8. Bio-fuels - fuel made from a waste material (agricultural
waste)
9. Achievable - realistic / attainable
10. Finite - limited / have end
Topic 17: Issues IELTS vocabulary Band +7 "Topic: Issues"
Globalization = worldwide trade Modernization
Tackle = deal with (a prob.)
Worsen = get worse
Overcome = beat = conquer
Pressing = urgent
Development = growth / becoming advanced
Diversity = including different types
Tolerate = willing to accept (BH)
Ongoing = continuing
Scenario = possible future situation Critical = very serious or important / crucial Escalate = become
worse / intensify Dispute = argument / disagreement Contemplate = consider / think carefully Crisis =
extremely bad situation / emergency Inevitable = certain to happen / unavoidable Acknowledge = admit
or accept that S is true Chaos = total confusion / disorder = turmoil Measures = preventive actions /
steps