Unit 7 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.
| absent | absolute | absorb |
| academy | accurate | accuse |
| achieve | actual | adequate |
| advice | advise | agriculture |
| ambitious | ancient | angle |
| anxiety | appearance | application |
| appoint | approve | area |
| arise | arrest | ashamed |
| astonish | audience | author |
| avoidance | awkward | baggage |
| band | bare | bargain |
| barrel | basis | basket |
| beam | beard | beg |
| behave | behavior | belief |
| belong | beneath | bind |
| birth | bitter | blade |
| bleed | bless | boast |
| boil | border | bound |
| boundary | bow | brass |
| breath | breathe | brick |
| bunch | bundle | businesslike |
| calculate | calculation | calculator |
| cape | cart | castle |
| charm | chart | chest |
| childhood | chimney | claim |
| classic | classify | clerk |
| cliff | commit | committee |
| community | companion | complication |
| comprehensive | compute | confident |
| confidential | conflict | confuse |
| connect | consent | consequent |
| consume | contact | contain |
| content | contract | contradict |
| contrary | contrast | contribute |
| converse | convert | convince |
| coordinate | corporate | correspond |
| council | courage | course |
| court | creature | credit |
| crop | crucial | cruel |
| culture | currency | cushion |
| custom | decade | decision |
| decisive | decline | decrease |
| deed | defense | definite |
| degree | delay | delicate |
| delight | dependent | depress |
| deserve | desire | despair |
| detect | determine | develop |
| device | devote | differentiate |
| disapprove | discomfort | discontent |
| discuss | discussion | disease |
| disgust | dispose | disregard |
| disrespect | dissatisfaction | dissatisfy |
| distinct | distinguish | divide |
| division | domestic | drawer |
| dream | drought | dubious |
| economy | edit | efficiency |
| efficient | elastic | elect |
| election | element | encourage |
| enemy | ensure | entire |
| equip | equivalent | error |
| essential | estate | estimate |
| everlasting | evident | exception |
| exhibit | existence | expand |
| extraordinary | faint | famine |
| fluctuate | minor | occupy |
| reduce | rely | severe |
| shadow | volatile |