IELTS VOCABULARY | LEARN ENGLISH | ENGLISH VOCABULARY
Ichthyic | adv. | Fish-Like. |
Ichthyology | n. | The Branch Of Zoology That Treats Of Fishes. |
Ichthyosaurs | n. | A Fossil Reptile. |
Icily Ad | v. | Frigidly. |
Ignoble | adv. | Low In Character Or Purpose. |
Ignominious | adv. | Shameful. |
Iliad | n. | A Greek Epic Poem Describing Scenes From The Siege Of Troy. |
Illicit | adv. | Unlawful. |
Illimitable | adv. | Boundless. |
Illiterate | adv. | Having Little Or No Book-Learning. |
Ill-Natured | adv. | Surly. |
Illumine | v. | To Make Bright Or Clear. |
Illusion | n. | An Unreal Image Presented To The Senses. |
Illusive | adv. | Deceptive. |
Imbibe | v. | To Drink Or Take In. |
Imbroglio | n. | A Misunderstanding Attended By Ill Feeling, Perplexity, Or Strife. |
Imbrue | v. | To Wet Or Moisten. |
Imitation | n. | That Which Is Made As A Likeness Or Copy. |
Immeasurable | adv. | Indefinitely Extensive. |
Immense | adv. | Very Great In Degree, Extent, Size, Or Quantity. |
Immerse | v. | To Plunge Or Dip Entirely Under Water Or Other Fluid. |
Immersion | n. | The Act Of Plunging Or Dipping Entirely Under Water Or Another Fluid. |
Imminent | adv. | Dangerous And Close At Hand. |
Immiscible | adv. | Separating, As Oil And Water. |
Immoral | adv. | Habitually Engaged In Licentious Or Lewd Practices. |
Immortalize | v. | To Cause To Last Or To Be Known Or Remembered Throughout A Great Or Indefinite Length Of Time. |
Immovable | adv. | Steadfast. |
Immune | adv. | Exempt, As From Disease. |
Immutable | adv. | Unchangeable. |
Impatience | n. | Unwillingness To Brook Delays Or Wait The Natural Course Of Things. |
Impeccable | adv. | Blameless. |
Impecunious | adv. | Having No Money. |
Impede | v. | To Be An Obstacle Or To Place Obstacles In The Way Of. |
Imperfectible | adv. | That Can Not Be Perfected. |
Imperil | v. | To Endanger. |
Imperious | adv. | Insisting On Obedience. |
Impermissible | adv. | Not Permissible. |
Impetus | n. | Any Impulse Or Incentive. |
Impiety | n. | Irreverence Toward God. |
Impious | adv. | Characterized By Irreverence Or Irreligio |
Implausible | adv. | Not Plausible. |
Impliable | adv. | Capable Of Being Inferred. |
Implicate | v. | To Show Or Prove To Be Involved In Or Concerned |
Importation | n. | The Act Or Practice Of Bringing From One Country Into Another. |
Importunate | adv. | Urgent In Character, Request, Or Demand. |
Importune | v. | To Harass With Persistent Demands Or Entreaties. |
Impotent | adv. | Destitute Of Or Lacking In Power, Physical, Moral, Or Intellectual. |
Impoverish | v. | To Make Indigent Or Poor. |
Impracticable | adv. | Not Feasible. |
Impregnable | adv. | That Can Not Be Taken By Assault. |
Impregnate | v. | To Make Pregnant. |
Impromptu | n. | Anything Done Or Said On The Impulse Of The Moment. |
Improper | adv. | Not Appropriate, Suitable, Or Becoming. |
Impropriety | n. | The State Or Quality Of Being Unfit, Unseemly, Or Inappropriate. |
Improvident | adv. | Lacking Foresight Or Thrift. |
Improvise | v. | To Do Anything Extemporaneously Or Offhand. |
Imprudent | adv. | Heedless. |
Impudence | n. | Insolent Disrespect. |
Impugn | v. | To Assail With Arguments, Insinuations, Or Accusations. |
Impulsion | n. | Impetus. |
Impute | v. | To Attribute. |
Inadequate | adv. | Insufficient. |
Inadmissible | adv. | Not To Be Approved, Considered, Or Allowed, As Testimony. |
Inarticulate | adv. | Speechless. |
Incandescence | n. | The State Of Being White Or Glowing With Heat. |
Incandescent | adv. | White Or Glowing With Heat. |
Inchoative | n. | That Which Begins, Or Expresses Beginning. |
Incidence | n. | Casual Occurrence. |
Incident | n. | A Happening In General, Especially One Of Little Importance. |
Incipient | adv. | Initial. |
Incisor | n. | A Front Or Cutting Tooth. |
Incite | v. | To Rouse To A Particular Action. |
Incitement | n. | That Which Moves To Action, Or Serves As An Incentive Or Stimulus. |
Incoercible | adv. | Incapable Of Being Forced, Constrained, Or Compelled. |
Incomparable | adv. | Matchless. |
Incompatible | adv. | Discordant. |
Incompetence | n. | General Lack Of Capacity Or Fitness. |
Incompressible | adv. | Resisting All Attempts To Reduce Volume By Pressure. |
Inconceivable | adv. | Incomprehensible. |
Incongruous | adv. | Unsuitable For The Time, Place, Or Occasio |
Inconsequential | adv. | Valueless. |
Inconsiderable | adv. | Small In Quantity Or Importance. |
Inconvenient | adv. | Interfering With Comfort Or Progress. |
Indefensible | adv. | Untenable. |
Indefinitely Ad | v. | In A Vague Or Uncertain Way. |
Indelible | adv. | That Can Not Be Blotted Out, Effaced, Destroyed, Or Removed. |
Indigenous | adv. | Native. |
Indigent | adv. | Poor. |
Indigestible | adv. | Not Digestible, Or Difficult To Digest. |
Indigestion | n. | Difficulty Or Failure In The Alimentary Canal In Changing Food Into Absorptive Nutriment. |
Indignant | adv. | Having Such Anger And Scorn As Is Aroused By Meanness Or Wickedness. |
Indignity | n. | Unmerited Contemptuous Conduct Or Treatment. |
Indispensable | adv. | Necessary Or Requisite For The Purpose. |
Indistinct | adv. | Vague. |
Indulgence | n. | The Yielding To Inclination, Passion, Desire, Or Propensity In Oneself Or Another. |
Indulgent | adv. | Yielding To The Desires Or Humor Of Oneself Or Those Under One’S Care. |
Inefficiency | n. | That Which Does Not Accomplish An Intended Purpose. |
Inefficient | adv. | Not Accomplishing An Intended Purpose. |
Ineligible | adv. | Not Suitable To Be Selected Or Chose |
Inexcusable | adv. | Not To Be Justified. |
Inexhaustible | adv. | So Large Or Furnishing So Great A Supply As Not To Be Emptied, Wasted, Or Spent. |
Inextensible | adv. | Of Unchangeable Length Or Area. |
Inference | n. | The Derivation Of A Judgment From Any Given Material Of Knowledge On The Ground Of Law. |
Infernal | adv. | Akin To Or Befitting Hell Or Its Occupants. |
Infest | v. | To Be Present In Such Numbers As To Be A Source Of Annoyance, Trouble, Or Danger. |
Infidel | n. | One Who Denies The Existence Of God. |
Infidelity | n. | Disloyalty. |
Infinite | adv. | Measureless. |
Infinity | n. | Boundless Or Immeasurable Extension Or Duratio |
Infirm | adv. | Lacking In Bodily Or Mental Strength. |
Inflammation | n. | A Morbid Process In Some Part Of The Body Characterized By Heat, Swelling, And Pai |
Inflexible | adv. | That Can Not Be Altered Or Varied. |
Influence | n. | Ability To Sway The Will Of Another. |
Influential | adv. | Having The Power To Sway The Will Of Another. |
Infuse | v. | To Instill, Introduce, Or Inculcate, As Principles Or Qualities. |
Infusion | n. | The Act Of Imbuing, Or Pouring I |
Ingenious | adv. | Evincing Skill, Originality, Or Cleverness, As In Contrivance Or Arrangement. |
Ingraft | v. | To Set Or Implant Deeply And Firmly. |
Ingratiate | v. | To Win Confidence Or Good Graces For Oneself. |
Ingratitude | n. | Insensibility To Kindness. |
Ingredient | n. | Component. |
Inherence | n. | The State Of Being Permanently Existing In Something. |
Inherent | adv. | Intrinsic. |
Inhibit | v. | To Hold Back Or In. |
Inhospitable | adv. | Not Disposed To Entertain Strangers Gratuitously. |
Inhuman | adv. | Savage. |
Inhume | v. | To Place In The Earth, As A Dead Body. |
Inimical | adv. | Adverse. |
Iniquity | n. | Gross Wrong Or Injustice. |
Inkling | n. | A Hint. |
Inland | adv. | Remote From The Sea. |
Inlet | n. | A Small Body Of Water Leading Into A Larger. |
Inmost | adv. | Deepest Withi |
Innocuous | adv. | Harmless. |
Innovate | v. | To Introduce Or Strive To Introduce New Things. |
Innuendo | n. | Insinuatio |
Innumerable | adv. | Countless. |
Inquisition | n. | A Court Or Tribunal For Examination And Punishment Of Heretics. |
Inquisitive | adv. | Given To Questioning, Especially Out Of Curiosity. |
Inquisitor | n. | One Who Makes An Investigatio |
Inroad | n. | Forcible Encroachment Or Trespass. |
Insecure | adv. | Not Assured Of Safety. |
Insensible | adv. | Imperceptible. |
Insentient | adv. | Lacking The Power Of Feeling Or Perceiving. |
Insolence | n. | Pride Or Haughtiness Exhibited In Contemptuous And Overbearing Treatment Of Others. |
Insolent | adv. | Impudent. |
Insomnia | n. | Sleeplessness. |
Inspector | n. | An Official Appointed To Examine Or Oversee Any Matter Of Public Interest Or Importance. |
Instance | n. | A Single Occurrence Or Happening Of A Given Kind. |
Instant | n. | A Very Brief Portion Of Time. |
Instantaneous | adv. | Done Without Perceptible Lapse Of Time. |
Instigate | v. | To Provoke. |
Instigator | n. | One Who Incites To Evil. |
Instill | v. | To Infuse. |
Instructive | adv. | Conveying Knowledge. |
Insufficiency | n. | Inadequacy. |
Insufficient | adv. | Inadequate For Some Need, Purpose, Or Use. |
Insular | adv. | Pertaining To An Island. |
Insulate | v. | To Place In A Detached State Or Situation. |
Insuperable | adv. | Invincible. |
Insuppressible | adv. | Incapable Of Being Concealed. |
Insurgence | n. | Uprising. |
Insurgent | n. | One Who Takes Part In Forcible Opposition To The Constituted Authorities Of A Place. |
Insurrection | n. | The State Of Being In Active Resistance To Authority. |
Intangible | adv. | Not Perceptible To The Touch. |
Integrity | n. | Uprightness Of Character And Soundness Of Moral Principle. |
Intention | n. | That Upon Which The Mind Is Set. |
Interact | v. | To Act Reciprocally. |
Interdict | n. | Authoritative Act Of Prohibitio |
Interim | n. | Time Between Acts Or Periods. |
Interlocutor | n. | One Who Takes Part In A Conversation Or Oral Discussio |
Intermission | n. | A Recess. |
Interpose | v. | To Come Between Other Things Or Persons. |
Interposition | n. | A Coming Betwee |
Interpreter | n. | A Person Who Makes Intelligible The Speech Of A Foreigner By Oral Translatio |
Interrogate | v. | To Examine Formally By Questioning. |
Interrogative | adv. | Having The Nature Or Form Of A Questio |
Interrogatory | n. | A Question Or Inquiry. |
Interrupt | v. | To Stop While In Progress. |
Intersect | v. | To Cut Through Or Into So As To Divide. |
Intervale | n. | A Low Tract Of Land Between Hills, Especially Along A River. |
Intervene | v. | To Interfere For Some End. |
Intestacy | n. | The Condition Resulting From One’S Dying Not Having Made A Valid Will. |
Intestate | adv. | Not Having Made A Valid Will. |
Intestine | n. | That Part Of The Digestive Tube Below Or Behind The Stomach, Extending To The Anus. |
Intolerance | n. | Inability Or Unwillingness To Bear Or Endure. |
Intolerant | adv. | Bigoted. |
Intoxicant | n. | Anything That Unduly Exhilarates Or Excites. |
Intoxicate | v. | To Make Drunk. |
Intricacy | n. | Perplexity. |
Intricate | adv. | Difficult To Follow Or Understand. |
Intrigue | n. | A Plot Or Scheme, Usually Complicated And Intended To Accomplish Something By Secret Ways. |
Introspection | n. | The Act Of Observing And Analyzing One’S Own Thoughts And Feelings. |
Introversion | n. | The Act Of Turning Or Directing Inward, Physically Or Mentally. |
Introvert | v. | To Turn Within. |
Intrude | v. | To Come In Without Leave Or License. |
Intrusion | n. | The Act Of Entering Without Warrant Or Invitation; Encroachment. |
Inure | v. | To Harden Or Toughen By Use, Exercise, Or Exposure. |
Invariable | adv. | Unchangeable. |
Inventive | adv. | Quick At Contrivance. |
Inverse | adv. | Contrary In Tendency Or Directio |
Inversion | n. | Change Of Order So That The First Shall Become Last And The Last First. |
Invert | v. | To Turn Inside Out, Upside Down, Or In Opposite Direction. |
Invidious | adv. | Showing Or Feeling Envy. |
Invigorate | v. | To Animate. |
Involution | n. | Complicatio |
Iota | n. | A Small Or Insignificant Mark Or Part. |
Irascible | adv. | Prone To Anger. |
Irate | adv. | Moved To Anger. |
Ire | n. | Wrath. |
Iridescence | n. | A Many-Colored Appearance. |
Iridescent | adv. | Exhibiting Changing Rainbow-Colors Due To The Interference Of The Light. |
Irk | v. | To Afflict With Pain, Vexation, Or Fatigue. |
Irksome | adv. | Wearisome. |
Irony | n. | Censure Or Ridicule Under Cover Of Praise Or Compliment. |
Irradiance | n. | Luster. |
Irradiate | v. | To Render Clear And Intelligible. |
Irrational | adv. | Not Possessed Of Reasoning Powers Or Understanding. |
Irreligious | adv. | Indifferent Or Opposed To Religio |
Irreverence | n. | The Quality Showing Or Expressing A Deficiency Of Veneration, Especially For Sacred Things. |
Irreverent | adv. | Showing Or Expressing A Deficiency Of Veneration, Especially For Sacred Things. |
Irreverential | adv. | Showing Or Expressing A Deficiency Of Veneration, Especially For Sacred Things. |
Irreversible | adv. | Irrevocable. |
Irrigant | adv. | Serving To Water Lands By Artificial Means. |
Irritant | n. | A Mechanical, Chemical, Or Pathological Agent Of Inflammation, Pain, Or Tensio |
Irritate | v. | To Excite Ill Temper Or Impatience In. |
Irruption | n. | Sudden Invasio |
Isle | n. | An Island. |
Islet | n. | A Little Island. |
Isobar | n. | A Line Joining Points At Which The Barometric Pressure Is The Same At A Specified Moment. |
Isochronous | adv. | Relating To Or Denoting Equal Intervals Of Time. |
Isolate | v. | To Separate From Others Of Its Kind. |
Isothermal | adv. | Having Or Marking Equality Of Temperature. |
Itinerant | adv. | Wandering. |
Itinerary | n. | A Detailed Account Or Diary Of A Journey. |
Itinerate | v. | To Wander From Place To Place. |