Unit 4 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.
| active | advance | affair |
| allow | amuse | apply |
| argue | aside | cough |
| cure | dozen | earth |
| environment | extract | grateful |
| ideal | luck | lump |
| madden | manage | margin |
| marriage | material | meantime |
| meanwhile | measure | medium |
| member | membership | mental |
| message | messenger | method |
| mind | mine | miner |
| minimal | minimise | minimum |
| model | modern | moment |
| musician | nail | nature |
| neither | nevertheless | nonetheless |
| nor | number | nursery |
| office | officer | order |
| outline | outward | over |
| overseas | ownership | paragraph |
| partner | patience | patient |
| pattern | pause | peace |
| pearl | perhaps | period |
| pile | pinch | pipe |
| poem | poet | polite |
| population | portion | position |
| positive | possible | pound |
| powder | power | prepare |
| present | press | pretend |
| pretense | prevent | prevention |
| prior | priority | prison |
| prize | process | profession |
| professional | program | programme |
| progress | project | promise |
| pronounce | pronunciation | proper |
| prove | provide | public |
| publication | publish | punctual |
| quote | railroad | rapid |
| rare | reach | react |
| receipt | recent | register |
| regret | regular | relation |
| release | relief | religion |
| remember | remind | remove |
| rent | repetition | rescue |
| research | respect | respond |
| responsible | restore | restrict |
| retire | reveal | revenge |
| reverse | review | revise |
| roar | root | rope |
| rot | rotten | row |
| royalty | sale | salesman |
| salt | sample | sand |
| scratch | screw | secret |
| seize | sense | sensitive |
| servant | serve | service |
| several | shade | shallow |
| shatter | shave | shelf |
| shell | shine | shout |
| shower | silence | silent |
| silk | since | site |
| skill | slight | slippery |
| smell | soil | solid |
| solution | sorrow | sound |
| sour | source | sow |
| spade | special | spill |
| spirit | spit | text |
| upset | veil |