Unit 9 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.
| acknowledge | allocate | animosity |
| aspect | assemble | assign |
| assist | association | assume |
| assure | attach | attain |
| attentive | attitude | attribute |
| attrition | authority | automate |
| autonomy | available | avarice |
| aware | ban | barber |
| basin | beak | beast |
| behalf | belligerent | beneficiary |
| benefit | bias | bond |
| brave | breadth | bribe |
| bribery | brief | broadcast |
| bulk | cage | canal |
| capable | capacity | capricious |
| carriage | case | category |
| cattle | caution | cease |
| ceremony | challenge | channel |
| character | charisma | chastise |
| cheat | circumstance | cite |
| citizen | civil | clarify |
| clause | coarse | cognitive |
| coherent | coincide | collapse |
| collar | colony | combine |
| command | commence | commerce |
| commercial | commission | communicate |
| compatible | compensate | compile |
| complement | complex | complicity |
| component | compose | composition |
| compound | comprise | conceive |
| concentrate | concept | concoct |
| concurrent | condone | conduct |
| confer | confess | confession |
| confine | confirm | congenial |
| congratulate | congratulation | conquer |
| conqueror | conquest | conscious |
| consensus | consist | constant |
| constitute | constrain | construct |
| consult | contemporary | context |
| contiguous | controversy | convene |
| convenience | convenient | convivial |
| core | creep | criteria |
| critic | cryptic | culpable |
| cultivate | curse | curtail |
| curve | dearth | debate |
| deceit | deceive | declare |
| deduce | deference | define |
| delineate | denote | derive |
| derogatory | descend | descendant |
| descent | destroy | destruction |
| destructive | deteriorate | deviate |
| devise | diligent | dimension |
| diminish | discrete | discriminate |
| disparage | displace | distort |
| diverse | docile | doleful |
| domain | dominant | dominate |
| dormant | duplicate | duration |
| dynamic | earnest | eccentric |
| efface | egocentric | elicit |
| eliminate | emerge | eminent |
| emphasis | empire | empirical |
| evolve | imitate | inherit |
| obey | obligation | observe |
| predict | prohibit | reflect |
| revenue | status | stifled |
| subordinate | sustain | toil |
| vestige | vindicate |