Tips for using the vocabulary for IELTS lists:
- Look carefully through the list to make sure you know the words and are confident that you can use them in your written or spoken English.
- Look up the meaning of any new words and put them in a sentence.
- Make a handwritten note of any new words, ideally in a separate note pad that you carry with you. Whenever you have a few minutes – waiting for a bus, just before going to sleep, waiting for the kettle to boil – take out the list and look through, reminding yourself of the word and the meaning.
- Improving your vocabulary for IELTS takes practice, so try to use the new word(s) in any suitable situation over the next few weeks – using the new word will help you remember it!
- Write the new word a number of times – writing down vocabulary will help you remember it and will also help with spelling.
| act | actor | after |
| again | against | ago |
| all | always | another |
| any | around | ask |
| bar | bath | because |
| before | belt | between |
| busy | can | carry |
| cheap | check | choice |
| choose | circle | clean |
| clear | clever | clock |
| close | colour | copy |
| could | couple | cousin |
| cross | crowd | customer |
| daily | dark | deep |
| desk | dictionary | die |
| difficult | dig | dinner |
| doctor | dollar | drag |
| draw | dress | dry |
| each | earn | east |
| empty | enjoy | enter |
| entrance | envelope | equal |
| example | excellent | excite |
| excuse | exercise | expect |
| expensive | experience | experiment |
| explain | factory | fail |
| fair | familiar | fan |
| fancy | fatten | fear |
| fight | film | final |
| finger | firm | fix |
| flat | flavour | flood |
| floor | flow | follow |
| foot | forget | forward |
| found | freeze | friend |
| friendly | fright | frighten |
| fruit | fry | funny |
| fur | further | gap |
| gift | glad | glass |
| goal | golden | ground |
| group | growth | guest |
| guide | gun | habit |
| hang | happen | harden |
| harm | heal | hear |
| heart | heavy | height |
| high | hill | hire |
| hit | hole | homework |
| hope | hurry | hurt |
| if | ill | inside |
| introduce | introduction | jaw |
| join | joke | joy |
| just | kill | kind |
| knee | knock | know |
| large | last | lately |
| laugh | lay | layer |
| lead | leaf | least |
| leave | lengthen | lessen |
| liar | library | lid |
| lie | light | likely |
| line | list | live |
| local | lock | loose |
| lord | lovely | meal |
| miss | nephew | other |
| pain | photograph | relax |
| rob | rub | rug |
| short | should | sight |
| tape | taste | tax |
| team | tell | tense |
| total | ||