Important Idioms
A red letter day- a crucial day
Button’s one lip- to keep quiet
Cast in the same mold- to be very identical
Donkey work- hard work, boring work.
Entering the 80th orbit- celebrating the 80th birthday
anniversary
Feel the pinch- financial problem.
Get a raw deal- not treated similarly
Himalayan blunder- a big mistake
In the doghouse- Unpopular at the moment.
Jack Frost - everything has frozen in winter.
Kangaroo court- when individuals take the law into their
own hands
Let the cat out of the bag- reveal the secret
Monkey around-wastage of time here and there
Never-never land- ideal place.
Once in a blue moon- rarely
Paper over the cracks- hide something
Queer fish- A strange person
Rain on your parade- If someone ruins your plans
Snake in the grass- hidden soldiers
To blow a fuse- someone angry
Upset the apple cart- create difficulties
Virgin territory - it hasn't been explored before.
Walking on broken glass- punished for something
X-rated - it is not suitable for children.
A yellow-bellied - person is a coward.
Zip it - to be quiet.
Vocabulary for IELTS Topic 1: People
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. Sedentary - sitting a lot or inactive
2. Psychological - mental
3. Beneficial - helpful or positive
4. Detrimental - harmful or negative
5. Intake - the 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. 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. 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
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 judgment or calculation
9. Collaborate - work together with
10. Methodical - in a careful or ordered way
Vocabulary for IELTS Topic 6:
Advertising
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. Caution - avoiding risks / wary
2. Wander - walk without aim/stroll / roam
3. Adventurous - willing to try new things / 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. Guideline - official advice/rules
2. Consensus - general agreement/unity
3. Instill - put an idea or feeling in something mind
4. Taxpayer - person paying tax / ordinary citizens
5. Corrupt - dishonest / abusing their power
6. Expenditure - the 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. 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 - a living thing
Vocabulary for IELTS Topic 10: 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. 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 the computer
6. upgrade - improve the quality
7. Innovative - inventive / a new use of something
8. Computerized - run or controlled by a computer
9. Devise - come up with / invent
10. Equipped - have ( a tool ) included or attached
Vocabulary for IELTS Topic 12: Fashion
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. 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. 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. 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
