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.
Letter A
10 words · with memory tricks
advocate, ambiguous, alleviate, augment…
Letter B
10 words · with memory tricks
bolster, beneficial, breakthrough, bureaucracy…
Letter C
10 words · with memory tricks
cognitive, coherent, compelling, comprehensive…
Letter D
10 words · with memory tricks
deteriorate, detrimental, diminish, discrepancy…
Letter E
10 words · with memory tricks
exacerbate, elaborate, empirical, equilibrium…
Letter F
10 words · with memory tricks
facilitate, fluctuate, foster, fundamental…
Letter G
10 words · with memory tricks
galvanise, globalisation, generic, genuine…
Letter H
10 words · with memory tricks
harness, hierarchy, hinder, holistic…
Letter I
10 words · with memory tricks
imperative, impede, implement, implication…
Letter J
10 words · with memory tricks
jeopardise, judicious, juxtapose, jurisdiction…
Letter K
10 words · with memory tricks
keen, kindle, knack, knowledgeable…
Letter L
10 words · with memory tricks
lucrative, legitimate, leverage, longstanding…
Letter M
10 words · with memory tricks
mitigate, meticulous, manifest, mandate…
Letter N
10 words · with memory tricks
nascent, negligible, notable, novel…
Letter O
10 words · with memory tricks
obsolete, obstruct, optimal, overarching…
Letter P
10 words · with memory tricks
paramount, paradigm, pertinent, pervasive…
Letter Q
10 words · with memory tricks
quintessential, quandary, quantify, quell…
Letter R
10 words · with memory tricks
ramification, resilient, refute, robust…
Letter S
10 words · with memory tricks
scrutinise, sustainable, sophisticated, stagnate…
Letter T
10 words · with memory tricks
tangible, transient, transparent, transformative…
Letter U
10 words · with memory tricks
ubiquitous, unprecedented, undermine, underpin…
Letter V
10 words · with memory tricks
viable, vulnerable, volatile, validate…
Letter W
10 words · with memory tricks
widespread, withstand, worthwhile, warrant…
Letter X
10 words · with memory tricks
xenophobia, xenophobic, xenophile, xenial…
Letter Y
10 words · with memory tricks
yield, yardstick, yearn, yoke…
Letter Z
10 words · with memory tricks
zeal, zealous, zenith, zeitgeist…