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

To migrate to English speaking countries, including Australia, UK, Canada, and New Zealand, people are usually asked to take this test. IELTS General Test is easier than IELTS Academic Test in reading and writing, however, test takers should focus on the specialities of separate tests, don't simply compare which is easier to pass. Actually they are independent tests and their scores cannot be converted in any way.

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

This IELTS general words list is compiled to meet with the basic criteria of IELTS general training test. 4000 words are categorized into 11 groups. To speed up studying, the initial page shows word list alone and hides definitions. If you need to look up definition, just click a button to retrieve by word. This design helps to skip known words as fast as possible, because this is a large list and you may know some of them more or less.

So, this is a proven IELTS general vocabulary with smart web technology supporting. It dramatically decreases 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.

In addition, we have to remind IELTS academic test takers that these 4000 IELTS general words are actually 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 vocabularies. Especially, 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. This's why all IELTS test takers need this list.

If you used to study English words through static ebooks, we recommend a basic level ebook IELTS 1200 Words in 30 Days, which can be found from main ebook distributors, such as Apple iBook, Google Books, Amazon Kindle. Besides, this web site also offers a web app with same vocabulary as the ebook to speed up your studying, Try It!

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Before kicking off preparing IELTS general vocabulary, you should understand that general vocabulary is specially for IELTS general training test. If there is any confusion, go to the IELTS Official Website, which will help you out and clarify your question.
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Words of Group 7 (Part of words, select list to view all.):
nail
naive
name
nameless
namesake
napkin
narrate
narration
narrow
nation
national
nationality
natural
naturally
nature
naughty
navel
navy
near
nearby
nearly
necessarily
necessary
necessity
neck
necklace
need
needful
needless
negotiate
negro
neighbor
neighborhood
neighboring
neither
nephew
nerve
nest
nestle
net
neutrality
never
new
news
newspaper
next
nice
nickname
niece
night
nightgown
nightingale
nine
nineteen
ninety
ninth
no
no.
noble
nobody
nod
noise
none
noon
normal
normalization
normalize
north
northeast
northern
northward
northwest
nose
nostril
not
notebook
noted
nothing
notice
noticeable
notification
noun
novelette
novelist
november
now
number
nun
nurse
nut
o.k.
obedience
obey
observation
observer
obviously
occident
occidental
ocean
oceania
oceanography
october
off
offering
office
officer
official
often
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acrobat   Speak
n. an athlete who performs acts requiring skill and agility and coordination
ahead   Speak
ad. at or in the front
ad. toward the future; forward in time
alarming   Speak
a. frightening because of an awareness of danger
ashtray   Speak
n. a receptacle for the ash from smokers' cigars or cigarettes
astronaut   Speak
n. a person trained to travel in a spacecraft
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n. a highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series); a decay product of uranium and thorium
n. 100 at equal 1 kip in Laos
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n. the act of arriving at a certain place
n. someone who arrives (or has arrived)
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n. an exasperated feeling of annoyance
n. action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse
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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. 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...
adequately  Speak
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ad. in an adequate manner or to an adequate degree
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ad. anew
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a. (followed by `to') in agreement with or accordant with
a. (followed by `to') as reported or stated by
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n. the nations of the Asian continent collectively
n. the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
affair  Speak
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n. a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
n. a vaguely specified concern
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v. murder; especially of socially prominent persons
v. destroy or damage seriously, as of someone's reputation
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a. related by common characteristics or ancestry
a. of or relating to or denoting the Allies in World War I
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n. a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
n. a statement acknowledging something or someone
afraid  Speak
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a. filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement
a. having feelings of aversion or unwillingness
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a. adequate for the purpose
a. judged to be in conformity with approved usage
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ad. in an adequate manner or to an adequate degree
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n. the quality of being at hand when needed
again  Speak
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a. of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input
n. something having the property of being analogous to something else
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ad. anew
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a. frightening because of an awareness of danger
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n. a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
v. become angry
ago  Speak
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a. adequate for the purpose
a. judged to be in conformity with approved usage
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a. gone by; or in the past
ad. in the past
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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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n. a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume
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n. the state of being acceptable and accepted
n. (contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract)


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v. make psychologically or physically used (to something)


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v. put in effect
n. the state of being active


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n. a word that expresses an attribute of something
n. the word class that qualifies nouns


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a. giving an advantage
a. appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness


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n. a public promotion of some product or service


Spelling Word: advertisement
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