Hello friends, we have started this new section where we will put useful vocabulary for IELTS from various books.
The best way to improve your vocabulary is to read a lot and every time you come across a new word or a phrase, you must try to look it up in a dictionary. Then instead of trying to remember it, you should write down that new word or phrase in a diary.
Today we are sharing some words and phrases from this book “Entirely Up to You, Darling” by Richard Attenborough and Diana Hawkins.
New Words...
Look these words up in a dictionary. ( We would prefer Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary)
Try making sentences using these words.
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soldier on
under his aegis
pander to
potentate
nickelodeon
eyrie
wide of the mark
cortege
adept at
catafalque
tow-headed
catatonic (with)
defunct
traipse (around/through/across)
obviate
ape something
fall guy
twenty-twenty vision
tune in
irascible
auteur
ruby wedding
doyenne
snipe
klieg light
praise someone or something to the skies
corpse ( theatre slang)
talk shop
schmaltzy
defray
kip
embonpoint
guesstimate
paper over the cracks
inter alia
tetchy
fairground ride
keeled over
bobble hat
lèse-majesté
uxorious
square off
meticulously
fit on the back of a postage stamp
to the tune of (e.g. : India is spending on its defense budget to the tune of $5 billion )
pastures new/ greener pastures
Useful Phrases and Collocations
He brought an accountant’s rationale to bear on every artistic decision.
He wrote a check for $5000.
He was beginning to make a name for himself.
I interviewed the chairman of the company in his seventh-floor eyrie.
I had flown out to India.
She was as good as her word.
We thanked him profusely.
Unversed in the medium of film
adept at spinning cotton
People lived in unremitting poverty.
He was almost catatonic with grief.
Talk nineteen to the dozen
He played ducks and drakes with his career.
A million dollars is ( are )spent on high school guides.
I have become used to flying first class.
Grind to a halt ( past tense : Ground to a halt)
British cinema had aped theatre.
Held someone in disdain
overlong speech
legendary auteur
She was a daunting woman who scared me witless.
She was driven by the unswerving belief that no matter how hopeless the situation , HE would always provide.
I am on the horns of a dilemma.
He had a genius for storytelling
His amazing gift for comedy
We frequently ruined his shot by corpsing. (”corpse” is also used a theatre slang )
We talked shop
I launched into my favorite career gripe.
The company will defray all your expenses.
I must get some kip.
I had a quick kip after lunch.
All the evidence of life in the raw had been scrupulously tidied away.
We were in profit to the tune of $2 million.
We were in debt to the tune of $4 million.
He was in search of pastures new.
