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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 10 (Part of words, select list to view all.):
sad
sadly
sadness
safe
safely
safety
said
sail
sailing
sailor
saint
salability
salable
salad
salary
sale
sales
salesman
salt
salty
same
sampling
sand
sandwich
santa
sardine
satisfactorily
satisfy
saturation
saturday
saturn
sausage
saw
say
scaly
scarcity
school
schooling
science
scientific
scientist
scorching
scornful
scotland
scotsman
scottish
scream
screech
sea
seaman
search
seaside
season
seat
second
secondhand
secondly
secrecy
secretariat
secretary
see
seed
seem
seize
seizure
seldom
self
selfish
sell
seller
semiconductor
seminar
senate
send
sender
senior
senseless
separately
separation
september
sermon
serpent
servant
serve
service
serviceable
set
settlement
seven
seventeen
seventh
seventy
several
severely
sew
sex
sexual
sexuality
shadow
shadowy
shady
shake
shame
shameful
shampoo
shape
shapeless
share
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abruptly   Speak
ad. quickly and without warning
age   Speak
n. an era of history having some distinctive feature
v. make older
agree   Speak
v. be in accord; be in agreement
v. go together
amusement   Speak
n. a feeling of delight at being entertained
n. an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention
anger   Speak
n. a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
v. become angry
athletic   Speak
a. having a sturdy and well proportioned body
a. relating to or befitting athletics or athletes
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a. relating to or characteristic of art or artists
a. aesthetically pleasing
Exercise
n. a commercial airplane that carries passengers
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a. have the skills and qualifications to do things well
a. having inherent physical or mental ability or capacity
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n. an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo
acceptance  Speak
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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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a. inspiring awe or admiration or wonder
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n. a quantity that is added
n. a suburban area laid out in streets and lots for a future residential area
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n. a person who acts and gets things done
n. a theatrical performer
accumulative  Speak
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a. of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples
n. a native or inhabitant of Africa
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a. increasing by successive addition
a. marked by acquiring or amassing
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ad. in an enjoyable manner
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n. social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers
accustom  Speak
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v. make psychologically or physically used (to something)
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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
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n. an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture
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v. stop sleeping
v. cause to become awake or conscious
adverbial  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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a. of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples
n. a native or inhabitant of Africa
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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
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ad. in the sleep of death
ad. into a sleeping state
affair  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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n. a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
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n. a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
n. a vaguely specified concern
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v. stop sleeping
v. cause to become awake or conscious
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n. the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation


Spelling Word: abrogation
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ad. in accordance with
ad. (sentence connectors) because of the reason given


Spelling Word: accordingly
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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


Spelling Word: add
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n. a word that expresses an attribute of something
n. the word class that qualifies nouns


Spelling Word: adjective
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n. a public promotion of some product or service


Spelling Word: advertisement
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n. the act of initiating hostilities
n. deliberately unfriendly behavior


Spelling Word: aggression
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