500 IELTS Vocabulary
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/eɪd/ n. (помощь) person or thing that promotes or helps in something done; helper; assistant The company has also asked for an additional 3.50 billion dollars in aid from the government. |
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/ɔ:l'bi:ɪt/ ad. (хотя) even though; although; notwithstanding This question bothers me, albeit from a different perspective. |
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/'æləkeɪt/ v. Syn. assign (выделить) assign; distribute according to plan Even though the Red Cross did allocate a large sum for the relief of the sufferers of the disaster, many people perished. |
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/'ɔ:ltə(r)/ v. Syn. modify; change; convert (изменить) modify; cause to change; make different; convert In public neither Mr. Blair's visit nor the regional summit in Nepal has done anything to alter India's position on dialogue with Pakistan. |
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alternative |
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/ɔ:l'tɜrnətɪv/ a. (альтернативные) one of two or more things, ideas or courses of action that may be used; option; choice Electron Instruments believed its desktop SEM was vastly superior to the next best alternative from a Japanese competitor. |
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/æm'bɪgjʊəs/ a. (неоднозначное) unclear or doubtful in meaning His ambiguous instructions misled us; we did not know which road to take. |
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amend |
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/ə'mɛnd/ v. Syn. correct; improve (изменить) change for the better; improve; remove faults or errors Would McCain amend executive orders to ensure that communications between persons outside government and White House staff are disclosed to the public? |
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analogy |
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/ə'nælədʒɪ/ n. Syn. similarity; parallelism (аналогии) similarity in some respects; comparison based on similarity This analogy is almost always noted without further comment, although in fact it may be taken further. |
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analyse |
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/'ænəlaɪz/ v. (анализа) resolve anything complex into its elements; separate into parts for purpose of examination of each separately Don't spend all day calling agents about fees - pick three in your locality and analyse which is the best one. |
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/ə'næləsɪs/ n. Syn. study; investigation (анализа) study; investigation; process of breaking down a substance into its constituent parts You can read more about those studies here, and my analysis is here. |
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annual |
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/'ænjʊəl/ a. (ежегодного) occurring or payable every year It says that the Queen's role in the annual state opening of parliament should be changed. |
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anticipate |
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/æn'tɪsɪpeɪt/ v. Syn. expect; predict (предвидеть) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time; predict Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, insult, clung to her with filial fondness. |
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/ə'pærənt/ a. Syn. visible (очевидной) capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to eye It is apparent to all that he was guilty; do you think anyone still trusts him now? |
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append |
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/ə'pɛnd/ v. Syn. attach (добавить) attach; add as supplement or appendix When you append a bibliography to a text, you have just created an supplementary material. |
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appreciate |
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/ə'pri:ʃɪeɪt/ v. Syn. admire; value (оценить) be thankful for; increase in worth; be thoroughly conscious of I am truly thankful for the stocks, which would appreciate in value considerably in future years. |
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approach |
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/ə'proʊtʃ/ n. Syn. access; method (подход) access; method Faced with an increasingly competitive jobs market and frequent bad publicity over pay and conditions, the army is getting ever more sophisticated and corporate in its approach to recruitment. |
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appropriate |
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/ə'proʊprɪət/ v. Syn. acquire; allocate (соответствующие) acquire; take possession of for one's own use; set apart for specific use The ranch owners appropriate the lands that have originally been set aside for the Indians' use. |
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approximate |
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/ə'prɒksɪmət/ v. Syn. approach (приближенные) approach; come near The conclusions of yours both approximate to the truth. |
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arbitrary |
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/'ɑrbɪtrərɪ/;/'ɑrrbɪtrɛrɪ/ a. Syn. capricious; impulse (произвольной) randomly chosen; determined by chance or impulse, and not by reason or principle He threw an arbitrary assortment of clothes into his suitcase and headed off, not caring where he went. |
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/'ɛərɪə/ n. (область) plane surface, as of the floor of a room; open space in a building; the enclosed space; extent; scope; range His special interest lies in the area of literature. |