Unit 8 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.
| affliction | assess | collision |
| conclude | cork | decay |
| enforce | facilitate | initial |
| injure | input | inquire |
| inquiry | insight | institute |
| integral | integrate | intend |
| intense | intention | interference |
| interval | intervene | isolate |
| jewel | justice | justify |
| landlord | latter | leash |
| legal | legislate | literary |
| literature | loyal | loyalty |
| lung | maintain | manipulate |
| mankind | manner | manual |
| media | mercy | mere |
| migrate | minister | ministry |
| minuscule | miserable | misery |
| mode | moderate | moderation |
| modify | monitor | moral |
| moreover | motif | motion |
| motive | murder | mutual |
| mystery | nausea | needle |
| network | neutral | noble |
| noise | nuclear | nuisance |
| numerical | object | objection |
| objective | obtain | occasion |
| offend | offense | official |
| operate | operation | operator |
| oppose | opposition | organ |
| origin | participate | particular |
| patriotic | peculiar | perceive |
| persist | persuade | persuasion |
| policy | polish | pose |
| potential | praise | pray |
| preach | precede | precious |
| precise | prejudice | preliminary |
| presence | preserve | president |
| presume | presumptuous | prime |
| proceed | proportion | prospect |
| provision | proximity | psychology |
| pursue | quantity | quarrel |
| quashed | quenching | radical |
| random | range | rank |
| ratio | rational | raw |
| ray | razor | realise |
| reason | reasonable | receive |
| recognise | recognition | recommend |
| record | recover | refer |
| reference | refresh | regulate |
| reinforce | reject | relate |
| reluctance | remark | remedy |
| replenish | represent | representative |
| reproduce | reproduction | republic |
| reputation | reside | resist |
| resistance | resolve | restrain |
| retain | reticent | revolution |
| sacred | sake | scarce |
| scatter | scent | scheme |
| scorn | scrape | sector |
| sequence | series | serious |
| significant | simulate | situation |
| sketchy | slave | social |
| society | sphere | spite |
| stable | stain | statistic |
| successor | sufficient | thorn |
| transform | unify | uproar |
| utilise | violate |