IELTS General Listening Vocabulary

List of words in IELTS General Listening Vocabulary

abate
abdicate
abduct
abet
ability
abrogation
abstain
abstract
acceptable
access
accountant
accuracy
accused
achievable
acquire
acute
admirable
admonish
adopt
adroit
advance
advocate
ageing
aggrandize
aircraft
airport
airship
alias
allay
amalgamate
ambivalent
amenable
amusement
artisan
apocryphal
artificial
ascetic
ascribe
assess
assessment
assiduous
assignment
asylum
attendance
attraction
aunt
aural
automobile
avalanche
avenue
bane
barrier
basement
battery
bean
bedroom
benign
bias
bilingual
bind
biology
boat
boil
boisterous
bold
bookshop
bough
brake
brass
brazil
bread
bridge
briefing
buffet
building
bungalow
burden
butcher
cafe
cafeteria
cajole
calumny
canny
canoe
canteen
canyon
capitulate
captain
career
carouse
cashier
castle
casual
cattle
caucus
ceiling
cereal
certain
character
chastise
cheap
cheese
chemistry
cherish
china
circuitous
city
clamor
classroom
clerk
cliff
climate
clinic
cloying
coagulate
coal
coalesce
coast
coerce
colleague
college
colored
complement
complexity
compound
compromise
computing
concede
condone
confection
confidence
confluence
confound
congenial
congruity
connive
continent
contravene
convoluted
corrosive
cottage
council
counsellor
course
cousin
craftsman
crew
criterion
culpable
cultivate
culture
cumulative
cunning
cursory
curtain
customer
dam
dangerous
deadline
debacle
debit
debt
decisive
decorator
deface
defamatory
den
dentist
department
deplore
deposit
depth
derelict
derrick
desert
desiccated
designer
despondent
despot
deter
dictionary
didactic
diligent
diploma
disaster
disburse
discern
discordant
discretion
disease
disparage
display
dissipate
dissonance
dissuade
divulge
docile
documented
doggedly
dome
dormant
dormitory
downward
drought
drunkard
duplex
dynamic
earmark
earthquake
eclectic
economics
ecstatic
efface
efficient
effrontery
eggs
elated
eloquent
elucidate
elude
embassy
emphatic
empirical
employee
employer
employment
enamor
encore
engineer
ephemeral
equal
erosion
erudite
esoteric
espouse
euphoric
evanescent
exacerbate
excavate
exhort
exigent
exonerate
exorbitant
expensive
experience
experiment
facility
faculty
fathom
faulty
fecund
feral
ferry
fetter
fitness
field
flat
flood
footbridge
forego
forest
forlorn
forsake
fort
fracture
french
frock
frugal
fruit
functional
garden
geography
german
glasshouse
gondola
governess
grain
grandiose
grocery
guard
guest
guideline
guile
hallowed
hallway
handout
harrowing
haughty
heartfelt
hegemony
heinous
helicopter
hill
hillside
history
holder
hospital
hostel
hovercraft
humanities
hurricane
hut
hydrofoil
idealize
idolatrous
immensely
imposition
impudent
inaccurate
incarnate
incisive
inclusion
income
indemnify
indirect
indoors
ineffable
inept
infinitive
ingenuous
innuendo
institute
insurance
integral
internship
interview
intimation
intrepid
intriguing
introduce
inure
island
jubilant
jungle
keyhole
kitchen
kite
knowledge
kudos
lake
landfill
landlord
lane
language
languid
laptop
lathe
lattice
law
leadership
leaflet
lease
least
lecture
lecturer
leeway
lenient
lethargic
library
lifeboat
lighthouse
limpid
liner
literature
liver
logic
luxurious
machinery
mainland
malevolent
management
manager
mandarin
manly
manner
march
may
meal
meat
memorable
microwave
midst
milk
mineral
miser
mistress
misty
modicum
module
mores
mortgage
motivating
mountain
mug
nature
neophyte
nephew
neutrality
newsletter
niece
nursery
nuts
oasis
obtuse
occupation
office
orthodox
oscillate
ostensible
outcome
oven
pail
palace
paradox
pariah
park
parliament
partisan
passage
passenger
pasta
pathos
pencil
peninsula
penurious
perfidious
perplex
persuasion
perusal
physics
philosophy
picnic
pilgrimage
pillage
pilot
pizza
place
platform
plausible
playmate
plenary
pneumatic
polemic
politics
poll
pollution
polyglot
pond
pop
potato
poverty
pragmatic
precipice
pretense
prevalence
prevention
primary
printer
privation
proclivity
product
profession
professor
pronoun
propagate
protein
psychology
pungent
punitive
punt
pupil
purchase
pursuant
pyramid
quench
quotidian
rapid
rapport
reasonable
rebuke
reception
recollect
rectitude
redound
reef
reference
relate
relativity
relegate
reliable
remain
remedy
renewable
renown
rent
replete
reproach
research
resilient
resolute
restaurant
revere
rhapsodize
rice
rife
riotous
river
rowboat
ruminate
ruse
safe
salary
sanguine
satisfied
scale
scathing
schedule
science
sculpture
seaplane
secondary
secretary
seep
sensuous
sermon
service
settlement
shadowy
shipment
showroom
sibling
sinuous
skyscraper
sleeve
smog
sob
sofa
solicitous
soluble
solvent
somnolent
specialist
speech
spoonful
spotted
spouse
staff
stalagmite
stamina
statistic
statistics
stevedore
store
storey
storm
strategy
streamline
street
strenuous
stress
striped
stump
stupefy
submissive
suburb
subway
suite
supervisor
surmise
survey
sycophant
tomato
tonnage
topic
tornado
train
trainee
transmute
transport
transverse
travesty
trip
trolley
turgid
turkey
turpitude
tutor
typhoon
uncle
underwrite
undulate
unduly
unemployed
unpaid
unskilled
unwilling
unworkable
vacancy
vacuous
valley
value
vapid
vegetable
vegetarian
vegetation
veneer
verbose
vest
view
village
vindictive
visa
vision
vitamin
vitriolic
vivacious
vocabulary
volcano
waiter
waitress
warehouse
wasteful
waterfall
weekday
weekend
widely
wily
wistful
withdraw
within
witty
workshop
yoga
yogurt
zealous
zenith
zephyr
zinc
analogue
analytical
anesthesia
annuity
annul
anomaly
anthology
accommodation
administrator
agricultural
agriculture
alternative
antarctica
anthropology
appointment
appropriate
april
archaeology
architecture
attributable
australia
bengali
camaraderie
carbohydrate
cartography
catastrophe
certificate
chinese
circumscribe
circumspect
commencement
commonwealth
competition
compunction
conditional
condominium
conflagration
consignment
consolation
consolidation
consultation
contaminate
cosmopolitan
december
deforestation
degradation
deliverance
denmark
disappointed
disbursement
discrepancy
disseminate
dissertation
disturbance
egypt
embarrassment
environment
eradication
essentially
feasibility
february
feedback
filipino
friday
grandiloquence
greek
headquarters
hindi
houseboat
idiosyncratic
ignominious
incorrigible
india
indignation
inextricable
intermediate
interminable
international
intransigent
irrevocable
italian
january
japanese
june
kindergarten
linguistics
manufacture
mathematics
merchandise
meticulously
monday
multifarious
neighborhood
november
october
oscillation
persian
philosophical
pickpocket
portuguese
presumptuous
proofread
propagation
publication
punjabi
questionnaire
receptionist
reciprocate
recruitment
refrigerator
reminiscent
remuneration
replenishment
reprehensible
reservation
romanticism
russian
sailboat
sanctimonious
satisfactory
saturday
september
shortcoming
subjunctive
substitution
sunday
superfluous
teamwork
temperature
thai
thursday
traditional
tuesday
undermentioned
utilitarian
vulnerability
wednesday
aloud
apparently
appraise
apprehend
aquarium
arbitrate
archetypal
architect
asia
disgruntled
england
europe
germany
greece
indonesia
italy
malaysia
nigeria
oxygen
pacific
pakistan
regard
registrar
resplendent
seafood
seizure
singapore
tacit
tantamount
task
teacher
tedious
temple
tenant
tenuous
textbook
thicken
thought