Unit 10 vocabulary list.
- 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.
| advocate | alleviate | ambiguous |
| ambivalent | apprehensive | commodity |
| conform | conscience | defendant |
| discipline | elucidate | enchant |
| enclose | enclosure | encounter |
| endangered | endeavour | endure |
| energy | engrossed | enhance |
| enigma | enthral | entity |
| equate | erode | erroneous |
| esoteric | essence | ethic |
| ethical | ethnic | evaluate |
| exacerbate | explicit | exploit |
| extol | extraneous | exuberant |
| finite | flagrant | fracture |
| frugal | futile | gender |
| genetic | govern | governor |
| grace | gratuitous | gregarious |
| heritage | heterogeneous | hierarchy |
| homogeneous | hypocrisy | hypothesis |
| ideology | illicit | imitation |
| imminent | impediment | implement |
| implicate | implicit | imply |
| impose | impoverished | incentive |
| incline | indigenous | induce |
| indulgent | infer | infrastructure |
| ingenuous | inherent | inhibit |
| initiate | innovate | insatiate |
| instigate | integrity | interact |
| intimate | intrepid | intrinsic |
| introspective | intuition | invoke |
| irate | jeopardy | juvenile |
| laconic | lament | latent |
| levy | linguist | lithe |
| lucrative | lurid | lustrous |
| malign | mechanism | mediate |
| misconception | mundane | munificent |
| negate | neglect | nihilism |
| nocturnal | nominal | notorious |
| noxious | nuance | oblique |
| obscure | officious | omission |
| omit | opaque | orient |
| ornament | paradigm | particle |
| pejorative | perception | perspective |
| pervade | petulant | phenomenon |
| philanthropy | philistine | philosophy |
| pioneer | plethora | plough |
| ponderous | postulate | practitioner |
| precipitous | precursor | predominant |
| prodigious | prodigy | proliferate |
| prolific | proprietary | protocol |
| provident | prudent | qualitative |
| rebound | reciprocal | reclusive |
| refine | reflection | regime |
| rejoice | renaissance | reproach |
| reverberate | revere | rift |
| rival | rivalry | rudimentary |
| sacrifice | salvage | scrupulous |
| sentient | serendipity | shrink |
| shunned | slavery | solemn |
| speculate | sporadic | sprawl |
| squander | stagnation | strive |
| subjugate | sublime | succumb |
| superfluous | surreptitious | taciturn |
| tangible | tenacious | tentative |
| terrestrial | thesis | vehemence |
| venerate | verisimilitude | vigilance |
| vilify | vitriolic |