Vocabulary

1.  Abyss:

• A deep pit, hollow,
• A deep chasm, gulf or opening in earth’s surface
• An immeasurable pit (formed out of a split or break) in a mountain,

Figurative Usage of the word Abyss:

• After war, soldiers demonstrate a miserable moral abyss in the form of looting property, ravaging women and killing the soldiers and citizens of the vanquished land.

2. Acquiesce:

• to accept something unwillingly,
• to admit without heart, as if there were no other choice

Usage:

• During company mergers, quite often the less profitable company has to acquiesce the terms and conditions of the more profitable one.
• In life, it is a law to acquiesce to what we do not like or wish for.

 

3. Affable:

• Anyone who is easy to approach,
• Anyone who is pleasant to talk to.

Usage:

• Professors because of their profound learning look aloof, but an interaction for a while with them will prove to anyone that more often than not, they are very affable.

 

Vocabulary for: TOEFL & IELTS

abyss
acquiesce
affable
afflication
affluent
agitate
ambiguous
annex
aqueous
arduous
aroma
atone
avarice
bellicosecalisthenics
captor
concoct
dangle
deprive
diligent
disrobe
docile
doleful
drought
dubious
dumbfound
efface
elucidate
enchant
endeavor
endorse
enthral
exploit
estensive
extol
flimsy
fraud
gaudy
ghastly
grumble
harass
heretic
impediment
indigenous
insatiate
intrepid
irate
jeopardy
leash
loafer
lucrative
lustrous
malign
meddle
mend
mirth
nausea
neglect
nocturnal
obese
obsolete
perch
pervade
petulant
pillage
presumptuous
quashed
quenching
refurbished
rejoicing
reticent
reverberate
rigor
rotundity
salvage
scattered
shatter
shunned
sketchy
sporadic
stifled
strive
subsequent
succumb
taciturn
tantalize
tentative
torpid
treacherous
tremor
tyro
uproar
vanity
vehemence
vigilance
vindicate
voluptuous
wan
wile
wrinkle

Unlike the GRE and the SAT which explicitly mention and require its students to mug up a huge vocab list to successfully crack each of the tests’ Sentence Completion section, the TOEFL and the IELTS, fortunately do not demand of its test-takers the tedious, boring and tiresome efforts at getting a huge list of words by-heart.

Still, there are a quite a few of the words that keep appearing in the two tests so often, that it is better and highly advisable to get at the root of their meanings. This will also enable students to read comprehension passages fast and more easily.

Now, dear Toefl and Ielts test-takers, keep regularly watching this Kota’s blogs for:

• Meanings of words and
• Examples of sentences to illustrate the words’ use