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1   Overview:
IELTS General Test is to evaluate the English level to fit for daily living and working. To own strong IELTS general vocabulary is the prerequisite to pass the test.

People usually take part in this test to migrate to English speaking countries, such as Australia, UK, Canada, and New Zealand, IELTS General Test is easier than IELTS Academic Test in reading and writing. However, test takers should focus on the specialties of separate tests, but not merely compare which test is easier to pass. Actually, they are independent tests, and there is no way to convert their scores.

IELTS general vocabulary has its attribute: related to living, working, and social activities, which reflect the nature of the test. Most words are from real scenarios, such as shopping in a mall and renting an apartment. These words aren't harsh for native English speakers, but as for ESL (English as Second Language), many people still need to take courses to study or enrich before test day.

This IELTS general words list is compiled to meet with the essential criteria of the IELTS general training test. We categorize the 4000 words into 11 groups. To speed up studying, we show word list alone at the initial page and hides their definitions. If you need to lookup definition, only click a button to retrieve by word. Because this is an extensive list, and you may know some of them more or less, this design helps to skip known words as fast as possible

So, this is a proven IELTS general vocabulary with smart web technology supporting. It dramatically decreases the time to skip known words and helps to focus on new words. If you are preparing IELTS general training test and are looking for a vocabulary, this one is deserved to have a look.

Besides, we have to remind IELTS academic test takers that these 4000 IELTS general words are the base of both academic and general tests. If you are IELTS academic test taker, you should take this list as fundamental vocabulary. Based on it, study other IELTS vocabulary. Notably, students living non-English speaking counties should take this general vocabulary seriously, because most of academic vocabularies exclude common daily words, but some of which occur on both IELTS test papers from time to time. It's why all IELTS test takers need this list.

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Words of Group 5 (Part of words, select list to view all.):
habitual
hair
haircut
hairpin
half
halfway
hall
halve
hammer
hand
handbag
handicapped
handkerchief
handling
handout
handwriting
happen
happening
happily
happiness
happy
hard
hardly
hardness
hardship
hare
harm
hat
hate
hateful
hatred
have
he
head
headache
headline
headmaster
headquarters
health
healthy
hear
heart
heartfelt
hearth
heartily
hearty
heat
heated
heating
heavily
heavy
height
hello
help
hen
herbal
here
hereafter
hereby
herein
hereinafter
hereof
hereto
herewith
hero
heroic
heroine
hesitation
hi
high
highland
highly
highway
hijacker
hill
hillside
hind
hip
hire
historical
history
hit
holder
holding
hole
holiday
holy
home
homeless
homework
homogenous
honest
honesty
honey
honeymoon
honor
honorable
hope
hopeful
hopefully
hopeless
horrify
horse
horsepower
hospital
hostel
hostess
hot
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accrued   Speak
v. come into the possession of
v. grow by addition
alienation   Speak
n. the action of alienating; the action of causing to become unfriendly
n. separation resulting from hostility
ancient   Speak
a. belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire
n. a very old person
appreciably   Speak
ad. to a noticeable degree
artistic   Speak
a. relating to or characteristic of art or artists
a. aesthetically pleasing
ass   Speak
n. hardy and sure-footed animal smaller and with longer ears than the horse
n. a pompous fool
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n. the part of the day between noon and evening
n. a conventional expression of greeting or farewell
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ad. strictly correctly
ad. with few mistakes
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n. a public promotion of some product or service
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ad. used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction
ad. (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
ache  Speak
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v. have a desire for something or someone who is not present
n. a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain
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n. the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan
n. a share set aside for a specific purpose
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ad. from appearances alone
ad. unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')
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ad. in an adequate manner or to an adequate degree
act  Speak
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n. a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent
n. any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation
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a. capable of being changed so as to match or fit
a. capable of being regulated
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v. perform on a stage or theater
v. have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
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n. the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
n. a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
active  Speak
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n. North America and South America and Central America
n. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independenc...
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a. disposed to take action or effectuate change
a. in operation
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n. the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
n. a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
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ad. used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction
ad. (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
adverb  Speak
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n. the word class that qualifies verbs or clauses
n. a word that modifies something other than a noun
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a. addicted to alcohol
a. characteristic of or containing alcohol
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n. North America and South America and Central America
n. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independenc...
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ad. in accordance with
ad. (sentence connectors) because of the reason given
africa  Speak
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n. the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean
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ad. in addition
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n. an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo
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v. present with a bias
v. seek indirectly
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a. being the one previously mentioned or spoken of


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n. the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean


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a. gone by; or in the past
ad. in the past


Spelling Word: ago
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n. an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo


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a. related by common characteristics or ancestry
a. of or relating to or denoting the Allies in World War I


Spelling Word: allied
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ad. in addition


Spelling Word: also
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