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 IELTS General Words List
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 4 (Part of words, select list to view all.):
fable
fabrication
fact
factory
fahrenheit
fail
failure
fair
faithfully
false
family
famous
fan
far
farm
farmer
farmhand
farmhouse
farming
farther
fascism
fascist
fast
fat
fate
father
faultless
faulty
favor
favorably
favorite
fbi
fear
fearful
fearless
feasibility
feather
february
feel
feeling
fellow
feminine
fence
ferrous
ferryboat
feudal
feudalism
fever
few
fiddle
field
fiery
fifteen
fifth
fifty
fight
fighter
filing
fill
filling
film
finalize
finally
financier
find
finding
fine
finger
finish
finished
fire
fireman
fireplace
firework
firmly
firmness
first
fish
fisherman
fission
five
fix
flank
flannel
flat
flatten
fleshy
flight
flood
floor
flow
flower
flu
fluid
flute
fly
folk
follow
follower
following
fond
food
foodstuff
fool
foot
football
footing
footstep
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able   Speak
a. have the skills and qualifications to do things well
a. having inherent physical or mental ability or capacity
answer   Speak
v. be liable or accountable
v. understand the meaning of
archaeologist   Speak
n. an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture
as   Speak
ad. to the same degree (often followed by `as')
n. a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and real...
asleep   Speak
ad. in the sleep of death
ad. into a sleeping state
awake   Speak
a. not in a state of sleep; completely conscious
a. mentally perceptive and responsive
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able  Speak
Exercise
a. capable of being changed so as to match or fit
a. capable of being regulated
Exercise
n. a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)
n. the act of affirming or asserting or stating something
Exercise
a. have the skills and qualifications to do things well
a. having inherent physical or mental ability or capacity
Exercise
v. convert into ashes
n. strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats
abroad  Speak
Exercise
n. a public promotion of some product or service
Exercise
ad. in a place across an ocean
ad. far away from home or one's usual surroundings
Exercise
n. the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation
Exercise
v. prepare oneself for a military confrontation
n. any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
accent  Speak
Exercise
n. the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
v. to stress, single out as important
Exercise
n. the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation
Exercise
n. a large number of people united for some specific purpose
n. the army of the United States of America; the agency that organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare
Exercise
n. informal terms for nakedness
ad. to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')
ache  Speak
Exercise
ad. quickly and without warning
Exercise
a. of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify
Exercise
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
Exercise
v. have a desire for something or someone who is not present
n. a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain
acknowledgment  Speak
Exercise
v. act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
Exercise
a. increasing by successive addition
a. marked by acquiring or amassing
Exercise
n. the action of alienating; the action of causing to become unfriendly
n. separation resulting from hostility
Exercise
n. a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
n. a statement acknowledging something or someone
advice  Speak
Exercise
a. capable of being changed so as to match or fit
a. capable of being regulated
Exercise
n. a public promotion of some product or service
Exercise
n. a proposal for an appropriate course of action
Exercise
a. have the skills and qualifications to do things well
a. having inherent physical or mental ability or capacity
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ad. in a place across an ocean
ad. far away from home or one's usual surroundings


Spelling Word: abroad
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n. the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
v. to stress, single out as important


Spelling Word: accent
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n. a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
n. an organic process that takes place in the body


Spelling Word: activity
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n. a person who acts and gets things done
n. a theatrical performer


Spelling Word: actor
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n. a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
n. a vaguely specified concern


Spelling Word: affair
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ad. at or in the front
ad. toward the future; forward in time


Spelling Word: ahead
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