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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 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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active   Speak
a. disposed to take action or effectuate change
a. in operation
actress   Speak
n. a female actor
almost   Speak
ad. (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
annoyance   Speak
n. the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed
n. the act of troubling or annoying someone
australia   Speak
n. a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony
n. the smallest continent; between ...
await   Speak
v. look forward to the probable occurrence of
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able  Speak
Exercise
a. relating to or characteristic of art or artists
a. aesthetically pleasing
Exercise
n. the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
n. a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
Exercise
a. have the skills and qualifications to do things well
a. having inherent physical or mental ability or capacity
Exercise
a. marked by the appetites and passions of the body
n. a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
abreast  Speak
Exercise
a. not in a state of sleep; completely conscious
a. mentally perceptive and responsive
Exercise
a. completely enveloping
Exercise
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
Exercise
ad. in an adequate manner or to an adequate degree
abruptly  Speak
Exercise
ad. in the sleep of death
ad. into a sleeping state
Exercise
ad. from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete)
ad. out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts)
Exercise
ad. quickly and without warning
Exercise
a. completely enveloping
acceptable  Speak
Exercise
a. adequate for the purpose
a. judged to be in conformity with approved usage
Exercise
n. the act of arriving at a certain place
n. someone who arrives (or has arrived)
Exercise
a. of or relating to or functioning as an adverb
n. a word or group of words function as an adverb
Exercise
v. be liable or accountable
v. understand the meaning of
adverbial  Speak
Exercise
ad. in the sleep of death
ad. into a sleeping state
Exercise
ad. to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')
a. completely given to or absorbed by
Exercise
a. of or relating to or functioning as an adverb
n. a word or group of words function as an adverb
Exercise
n. an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo
aids  Speak
Exercise
v. come into sight or view
v. be issued or published
Exercise
a. belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire
n. a very old person
Exercise
n. a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles
Exercise
a. adequate for the purpose
a. judged to be in conformity with approved usage
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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


Spelling Word: about
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n. a territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru
n. a town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean


Spelling Word: acre
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n. the performance of stunts while in flight in an aircraft
n. the gymnastic moves of an acrobat


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


Spelling Word: affair
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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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ad. in an enjoyable manner


Spelling Word: agreeably
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