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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 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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above   Speak
ad. at an earlier place
ad. in or to a place that is higher
according   Speak
a. (followed by `to') in agreement with or accordant with
a. (followed by `to') as reported or stated by
angle   Speak
v. present with a bias
v. seek indirectly
antecedent   Speak
n. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
n. the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun
any   Speak
ad. to any degree or extent
a. one or some or every or all without specification
awkwardness   Speak
n. unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
n. trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape
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able  Speak
Exercise
n. a favorable omen
Exercise
a. have the skills and qualifications to do things well
a. having inherent physical or mental ability or capacity
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')
Exercise
a. adequate for the purpose
a. judged to be in conformity with approved usage
abstraction  Speak
Exercise
n. a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
n. a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
Exercise
n. an exasperated feeling of annoyance
n. action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse
Exercise
n. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
n. the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun
Exercise
ad. at any time or in any event
ad. without variation or change, in every case
acceptable  Speak
Exercise
v. come into sight or view
v. be issued or published
Exercise
ad. at or in or to any place
Exercise
a. relating to or characterized by an aura
a. of or pertaining to hearing or the ear
Exercise
a. adequate for the purpose
a. judged to be in conformity with approved usage
accustom  Speak
Exercise
ad. towards the shore from the water
Exercise
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
Exercise
v. stop sleeping
v. cause to become awake or conscious
Exercise
v. make psychologically or physically used (to something)
adequately  Speak
Exercise
a. filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement
a. having feelings of aversion or unwillingness
Exercise
ad. in an adequate manner or to an adequate degree
Exercise
v. come into sight or view
v. be issued or published
Exercise
ad. at any time or in any event
ad. without variation or change, in every case
adjective  Speak
Exercise
ad. in accordance with
ad. (sentence connectors) because of the reason given
Exercise
a. have the skills and qualifications to do things well
a. having inherent physical or mental ability or capacity
Exercise
n. a word that expresses an attribute of something
n. the word class that qualifies nouns
Exercise
v. bestow a quality on
v. make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of
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ad. quickly and without warning


Spelling Word: abruptly
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a. deserving of the highest esteem or admiration
a. inspiring admiration or approval


Spelling Word: admirable
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v. make a proposal, declare a plan for something
v. inform (somebody) of something


Spelling Word: advise
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ad. anew


Spelling Word: again
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a. gone by; or in the past
ad. in the past


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


Spelling Word: ahead
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