Vocabulary For Ielts (Unit 01)

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Unit 1: Growing Up

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Created by: Hamid Afshari

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Sibling (n)

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formal

a brother or sister:

✓Most young smokers are influenced by their friends' and older siblings' smoking habits.

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Sibling rivalry: competition between brothers and sisters for their parents' attention or love.

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Rewarding (adj)

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making you feel happy and satisfied because you feel you are doing something useful or important, even if you do not earn much money ⇒ satisfying, worthwhile:

✓Teaching can be a very rewarding career.

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Adolescence (n)

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The time usually between the ages of 12 and 18 when a young person is developing into an adult

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accommodate (v)

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[transitive]

to provide someone with a place to stay, live, or work:

✓The island was used to accommodate child refugees.

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nurture (v)

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Formal

to feed and take care of a child or a plant while it is growing:

✓plants nurtured in the greenhouse

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پرورش دادن

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interaction (n) **

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the activity of talking to other people, working together with them etc

interaction with/between

✓the degree of interaction between teacher and student

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اثر متقابل

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Endure (v)

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[intransitive]

to remain alive or continue to exist for a long time:

✓friendships which endure over many years

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تحمل کردن

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sophisticated (adj)

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Sophisticated machine, system, method etc is very well designed, and very advanced and often works in a complicated way:

✓sophisticated software

✓a highly sophisticated weapons system

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پیچیده

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long-lasting (adj)

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continuing for a long time

Antonym : short-lived:

✓The impact of divorce on children can be long-lasting.

long-lasting effect/result

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Competence (also competency) (n) **

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ability to do something well

✓Students will gain competence in a wide range of skills.

✓He questioned the competence of the government.

professional/linguistic/technical etc competence

✓Doctors have to constantly update their knowledge in order to maintain their professional competence.

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Antonym : incompetence

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adopt (v)

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Adopt an approach/policy/attitude etc:

to start deal with or think about something in a particular way

✓The courts were asked to adopt a more flexible approach to young offenders.

✓The store recently adopted a drug testing policy for all new employees.

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اتخاذ کردن

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recruit (v)

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To find new people to work in a company, join an organisation, do a job etc:

✓We're having difficulty recruiting enough qualified staff.

✓Many government officials were recruited from private industry.

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استخدام کردن

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rivalry (n)

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a situation in which two or more people, teams, or companies are competing for something, especially over a long period of time, and the feeling of competition between them ⇒ competition

✓She had never overcome her feelings of sibling rivalry (=rivalry between brothers and sisters).

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رقابت

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maternal (adj)

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typical of the way a good mother behaves or feels ⇒ paternal:

✓Annie was wonderfully warm and maternal.

✓She seems to have a strong maternal instinct (=desire to have babies and take care of them).

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coordinate (v)

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[transitive]

to organize an activity so that the people involved in it work well together and achieve a good result:

✓The agencies are working together to coordinate policy on food safety.

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همکاری

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Paternal (adj)

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1) paternal feelings or behaviour are like those of a kind father towards his children

2) paternal grandmother/uncle etc: your father's mother, brother etc

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resemblance (n)

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✓The resemblance between Susan and her sister was remarkable.

bear a (close/striking/uncanny etc) resemblance to somebody/something(=look like)

bear little/no resemblance to somebody/something

✓What happens in the film bears little resemblance to what actually happened.

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if there is a resemblance between two people or things, they are similar, especially in the way they look ⇒ similarity

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immediate family

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people who are very closely related to you such as your parents, children, brothers, and sisters

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relatively (adv)

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something that is relatively small, easy etc is fairly small, easy etc compared to other things:

✓The system is relatively easy to use.

✓E-commerce is a relatively recent phenomenon.

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نسبتاً

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chaotic (adj)

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A chaotic situation is one in which everything is happening in a confused way:

✓a chaotic mixture of images

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Close-knit (adj)

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A close-knit group of people is one in which everyone knows each other well and gives each other support when they need it:

✓a close-knit community

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Close-knit family: خانواده صمیمی

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Striking (adj)

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unusual or interesting enough to be easily noticed

striking contrast/similarity/parallel etc

✓a striking contrast between wealth and poverty

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قابل توجه، مؤثر، برجسته

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upbringing (n)

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[singular, uncountable]

the way that your parents care for you and teach you to behave when you are growing up ⇒ bring up:

✓Mike had had a strict upbringing.

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تربیت

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Stubborn (adj)

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determined not to change your mind, even when people think you are being unreasonable:

✓Why are you so stubborn?

✓I've got a very stubborn streak (=a tendency to be stubborn).

✓Paul can be as stubborn as a mule (=very stubborn).

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سمج، یک‌دنده، کله شق

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enroll (v)

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to officially arrange to join a school, university, or course, or to arrange for someone else to do this

enrol on/for (British English)

✓I decided to enrol for 'Art for Beginners'.

enroll in (especially American)

✓English Californians are rushing to enroll in special aerobics classes.

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ثبت‌نام کردن

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toddler (n)

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A very young child who just learning to walk

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کودک تازه براه افتاده

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paddling pool (n)

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A small pool or plastic container of water which is not very deep, for children to play in

Synonym: wading pool (American English)

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Temperament (n)

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the emotional part of someone's character, especially how likely they are to be happy, angry etc

artistic/nervous/good etc temperament

✓Jill has such a lovely relaxed temperament.

✓Tolkien was, by temperament, a very different man from Lewis.

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inherit (v)

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to have the same character or appearance as your parents

inherit something from somebody

✓Mr. Grass inherited his work ethic from his father.

✓I inherited my mother's curly hair.

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به ارث بردن، از دیگری گرفتن (ظاهری و شخصیتی)