IELTS Vocabulary A–Z

260 carefully chosen IELTS words organised alphabetically. Each entry comes with a clear definition, an example sentence, and a memory trick to make the word stick.

A

Letter A

10 words · with memory tricks

advocate, ambiguous, alleviate, augment…

B

Letter B

10 words · with memory tricks

bolster, beneficial, breakthrough, bureaucracy…

C

Letter C

10 words · with memory tricks

cognitive, coherent, compelling, comprehensive…

D

Letter D

10 words · with memory tricks

deteriorate, detrimental, diminish, discrepancy…

E

Letter E

10 words · with memory tricks

exacerbate, elaborate, empirical, equilibrium…

F

Letter F

10 words · with memory tricks

facilitate, fluctuate, foster, fundamental…

G

Letter G

10 words · with memory tricks

galvanise, globalisation, generic, genuine…

H

Letter H

10 words · with memory tricks

harness, hierarchy, hinder, holistic…

I

Letter I

10 words · with memory tricks

imperative, impede, implement, implication…

J

Letter J

10 words · with memory tricks

jeopardise, judicious, juxtapose, jurisdiction…

K

Letter K

10 words · with memory tricks

keen, kindle, knack, knowledgeable…

L

Letter L

10 words · with memory tricks

lucrative, legitimate, leverage, longstanding…

M

Letter M

10 words · with memory tricks

mitigate, meticulous, manifest, mandate…

N

Letter N

10 words · with memory tricks

nascent, negligible, notable, novel…

O

Letter O

10 words · with memory tricks

obsolete, obstruct, optimal, overarching…

P

Letter P

10 words · with memory tricks

paramount, paradigm, pertinent, pervasive…

Q

Letter Q

10 words · with memory tricks

quintessential, quandary, quantify, quell…

R

Letter R

10 words · with memory tricks

ramification, resilient, refute, robust…

S

Letter S

10 words · with memory tricks

scrutinise, sustainable, sophisticated, stagnate…

T

Letter T

10 words · with memory tricks

tangible, transient, transparent, transformative…

U

Letter U

10 words · with memory tricks

ubiquitous, unprecedented, undermine, underpin…

V

Letter V

10 words · with memory tricks

viable, vulnerable, volatile, validate…

W

Letter W

10 words · with memory tricks

widespread, withstand, worthwhile, warrant…

X

Letter X

10 words · with memory tricks

xenophobia, xenophobic, xenophile, xenial…

Y

Letter Y

10 words · with memory tricks

yield, yardstick, yearn, yoke…

Z

Letter Z

10 words · with memory tricks

zeal, zealous, zenith, zeitgeist…