This is the vocabulary list for Unit 2, but don’t forget the useful tips for vocabulary presented in Unit 1.
- 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.
| across | add | agree |
| air | alone | along |
| avoid | awake | backward |
| basic | battle | become |
| bill | both | box |
| bridge | bring | build |
| burn | business | camp |
| catch | conversation | corner |
| cotton | country | crown |
| cycle | danger | deaf |
| department | different | dip |
| disagree | disappear | drum |
| either | except | flatten |
| forgive | furniture | island |
| journal | loss | loud |
| machine | main | mark |
| marry | master | match |
| matter | may | maybe |
| mean | mechanic | melt |
| mend | metre | middle |
| might | mild | mile |
| mistake | mixture | month |
| moon | motor | mountain |
| mouse | must | narrow |
| neat | nest | net |
| never | new | news |
| next | niece | nobody |
| none | noon | normal |
| nothing | notice | noun |
| now | nurse | ocean |
| odd | once | only |
| onto | onwards | ordinary |
| otherwise | ought | owe |
| own | package | pair |
| pale | panel | parcel |
| part | pass | passage |
| passenger | paste | pastry |
| percent | physical | pick |
| picture | piece | pint |
| place | plain | plan |
| plenty | point | |
| police | popular | pour |
| pretty | private | |
| product | production | pump |
| punish | pupil | purchase |
| pure | purpose | puzzle |
| quarter | question | quite |
| race | rail | raise |
| ready | real | repair |
| repeat | replace | reply |
| report | rest | return |
| reward | roast | robbery |
| rock | role | roll |
| room | rough | round |
| royal | rubber | rubbish |
| rude | ruin | sadden |
| scientific | search | season |
| second | secretary | seed |
| seek | seem | select |
| self | selfish | sentence |
| set | settle | sew |
| shake | shall | share |
| sharpen | sheep | sheet |
| shoot | shorten | show |
| sick | side | sign |
| signal | stage | steady |
| target | task |