IELTS General Words List

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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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adjective   Speak
n. a word that expresses an attribute of something
n. the word class that qualifies nouns
age   Speak
n. an era of history having some distinctive feature
v. make older
ahead   Speak
ad. at or in the front
ad. toward the future; forward in time
airway   Speak
n. the passages through which air enters and leaves the body
n. a duct that provides ventilation (as in mines)
apartment   Speak
n. a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
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...
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abreast  Speak
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a. inspiring awe or admiration or wonder
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n. assigning some quality or character to a person or thing
n. assigning to a cause or source
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ad. in addition
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a. being up to particular standard or level especially in being up to date in knowledge
ad. alongside each other, facing in the same direction
abstraction  Speak
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a. gone by; or in the past
ad. in the past
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a. inspiring awe or admiration or wonder
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n. a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
n. a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
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n. a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal
n. (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program
accent  Speak
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ad. strictly correctly
ad. with few mistakes
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a. gone by; or in the past
ad. in the past
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n. a person who acts and gets things done
n. a theatrical performer
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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
acceptance  Speak
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a. of or relating to or functioning as an adverb
n. a word or group of words function as an adverb
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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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a. of or relating to the Arctic
n. a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow
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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)
advise  Speak
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a. being up to particular standard or level especially in being up to date in knowledge
ad. alongside each other, facing in the same direction
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v. make a proposal, declare a plan for something
v. inform (somebody) of something
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a. any of various alternatives; some other
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n. a member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa
n. a spirited graceful and intelligent riding horse native to Arabia
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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n. a member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa
n. a spirited graceful and intelligent riding horse native to Arabia
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ad. to a noticeable degree
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ad. quickly and without warning


Spelling Word: abruptly
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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


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v. take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
v. give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to


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a. of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples
n. a native or inhabitant of Africa


Spelling Word: african
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v. cause to agonize
v. suffer agony or anguish


Spelling Word: agonize
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ad. in an enjoyable manner


Spelling Word: agreeably
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