500 IELTS Vocabulary
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/bri:f/ a. short in time, duration, length, or extent; concise When my brief career as a pop star ended, I found I had done fairly well. |
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/bʌlk/ n. Syn. majority; mass majority; main part; volume; mass Canada's largest bulk food retailer, it has more than 112 stores. |
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capable |
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/'keɪpəb(ə)l/ a. Syn. competent having the ability required for a specific task Canadian politicians have been in capable of ending this primitive practice. |
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capacity |
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/kə'pæsɪtɪ/ n. Syn. volume; ability; capability mental or physical ability; ability to accommodate Mike had the capacity to handle several jobs at once. |
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category |
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/'kætɪgərɪ/ n. Syn. group group; class; collection of things sharing a common attribute Remember, all cars are priced, booked and controlled by car category, not by car maker or model. |
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cease |
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/si:s/ v. Syn. stop; terminate stop; terminate; put an end to; discontinue We must not only cease from the acts of sin, but we must get the vicious habits and inclinations weakened and destroyed. |
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challenge |
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/'tʃælɪndʒ/ v. assert a right; raise a formal objection; take exception to Nowadays no one will challenge the fact that the earth is round. |
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channel |
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/'tʃæn(ə)l/ n. passage for water or other fluids to flow through; bed of a stream or river; route of communication or access You should take her request through official channel, there is no private room for her issue. |
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chapter |
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/'tʃæptə(r)/ n. division of a book or treatise; assembly of monks; bishop's council; organized branch of some society A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play. |
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chart |
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/tʃɑrt/ n. Syn. graph; diagram graph; diagram; map showing coastlines, water depths, or other information of use to navigators A fisherman's chart may be the crucial evidence which finally help to put to rest the mystery of what happened to Roald Amundsen. |
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circumstance |
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/'sɜrkəmstəns/ n. Syn. situation; condition situation; condition; detail accompanying or surrounding an event Her heart is broken, but then a change in circumstance forces them to be together every day. |
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cite |
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/saɪt/ v. Syn. quote quote; adduce as an instance She could cite passages in the Bible from memory. |
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civil |
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/'sɪv(ə)l/ a. Syn. civic having to do with citizens or the state; courteous and polite Although Internal Revenue Service agents are civil servants, they are not always courteous to suspected tax cheats. |
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clarify |
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/'klærɪfaɪ/ v. Syn. illuminate; elucidate make clear and comprehensible; elucidate A Japanese delegation has started talks in North Korea to try to clarify the fate of at least ten Japanese citizens who were abducted by the communist state. |
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classic |
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/'klæsɪk/ n. work of acknowledged excellence and authority, or its author; creation of the highest excellence His face was like a Greek face, very pure in outline: quite a straight, classic nose; quite an Athenian mouth and chin. |
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clause |
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/klɔ:z/ n. Syn. sentence; phrase sentence; phrase; distinct article, stipulation, or provision in a document Congress insisted on an exclusion clause for seventeen-year-olds. |
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code |
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/koʊd/ n. body of law; system of rules or regulations relating to one subject; system of symbols, letters, or words Do you know the postal code of this postal district? |
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coherent |
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/koʊ'hɪərənt/ a. Syn. adhesive; cohesive adhesive; cohesive; sticking together ; logical; sound; capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner If the EU is to form any kind of coherent common foreign policy, it needs France and Britain singing from the same song sheet. |
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coincide |
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/koʊɪn'saɪd/ v. Syn. correspond occur at the same time as; correspond To coincide with World AIDS Day, the World Health Organization and UN AIDS are launching a campaign to treat three million HIV sufferers by the year 2005. |
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/kə'læps/ v. breakdown; failure The streets of Baghdad are littered with putrefying mounds of rubbish that have been accumulating since the collapse of municipal services in March, with the arrival of coalition forces. |