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 have to write down that new word or phrase in a diary.
Today we are sharing some words and phrases from this book “Plain Tales from the British Empire” by Charles Allen.
New Words...
Look these words up in a dictionary. ( We would prefer Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary)
Try to make sentences using these words.
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Panache
Invidious
A Subject Race
Offshore
(Much) Vaunted
Riven (with)
repercussion
Heir (to)
Ratify
Rescind
accoutrement
Forfeit
de rigueur
Gaunt (for building)
Summary Justice
Embrown
Douse
Ladle
Interlocutor
Interloper
Serried
Waive
Stickler
Astute
Meretricious
Spurious
The Year Dot
Squall
Boisterous
Sawdust
A Welcome Change
Smithereens
A Good/poor Shot (noun)
Ploy
Opportune
Sundown
Palaver
Azalea
On a par
Gauche
Fatuous
Dote on Someone
(lie) Doggo
Useful Phrases
Bird of Passage
Get your own back (on)
Chip on the Shoulder
There is a case to be made..
Let Your Hair Down
Cast pearls before swine
Dereliction of duty
One Swallow doesn’t make a summer
Throw your weight around
Seize the Opportunity
Take measures
Make Up (phrasal verb)
Make Something Up (phrasal verb)
bring someone/something into line
Hove into sight
By No Means
Be wide of the mark
Repair to Somewhere
Try Someone’s Patience
Go Wrong
Get Off
