5000+ Commonly Used IELTS and TOEFL Words

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3001
misruleverb
To misgovern.
3002
missalnoun
The book containing the service for the celebration of mass.
3003
missilenoun
Any object, especially a weapon, thrown or intended to be thrown.
3004
missivenoun
A message in writing.
3005
mistrustverb
To regard with suspicion or jealousy.
3006
mistyadjective
Lacking clearness
3007
misunderstandverb
To Take in a wrong sense.
3008
misuseverb
To maltreat.
3009
mitenoun
A very small amount, portion, or particle.
3010
miternoun
The junction of two bodies at an equally divided angle.
3011
mitigateverb
To make milder or more endurable.
3012
mnemonicsnoun
A system of principles and formulas designed to assist the recollection in certain instances.
3013
moatnoun
A ditch on the outside of a fortress wall.
3014
mobocracynoun
Lawless control of public affairs by the mob or populace.
3015
moccasinnoun
A foot-covering made of soft leather or buckskin.
3016
mockerynoun
Ridicule.
3017
moderationnoun
Temperance.
3018
moderatornoun
The presiding officer of a meeting.
3019
modernitynoun
The state or character of being modern.
3020
modernizeverb
To make characteristic of the present or of recent times.
3021
modificationnoun
A change.
3022
modifyverb
To make somewhat different.
3023
modishadjective
Fashionable.
3024
modulateverb
To vary in tone, inflection, pitch or other quality of sound.
3025
mollifyverb
To soothe.
3026
moltverb
To cast off, as hair, feathers, etc.
3027
momentaryadjective
Lasting but a short time.
3028
momentousadjective
Very significant.
3029
momentumnoun
An impetus.
3030
monarchynoun
Government by a single, sovereign ruler.
3031
monasterynoun
A dwelling-place occupied in common by persons under religious vows of seclusion.
3032
monetaryadjective
Financial.
3033
mongrelnoun
The progeny resulting from the crossing of different breeds or varieties.
3034
monitionnoun
Friendly counsel given by way of warning and implying caution or reproof.
3035
monitorynoun
Admonition or warning.
3036
monocracynoun
Government by a single person.
3037
monogamynoun
The habit of pairing, or having but one mate.
3038
monogramnoun
A character consisting of two or more letters interwoven into one, usually initials of a name.
3039
monographnoun
A treatise discussing a single subject or branch of a subject.
3040
monolithnoun
Any structure or sculpture in stone formed of a single piece.
3041
monologuenoun
A story or drama told or performed by one person.
3042
monomanianoun
The unreasonable pursuit of one idea.
3043
monopolynoun
The control of a thing, as a commodity, to enable a person to raise its price.
3044
monosyllablenoun
A word of one syllable.
3045
monotonenoun
The sameness or monotony of utterance.
3046
monotonousadjective
Unchanging and tedious.
3047
monotonynoun
A lack of variety.
3048
monsieurnoun
A French title of respect, equivalent to Mr. and sir.
3049
monstrositynoun
Anything unnaturally huge or distorted.
3050
moonbeamnoun
A ray of moonlight.
3051
moralenoun
A state of mind with reference to confidence, courage, zeal, and the like.
3052
moralistnoun
A writer on ethics.
3053
moralitynoun
Virtue.
3054
moralizeverb
To render virtuous.
3055
moratoriumnoun
An emergency legislation authorizing a government suspend some action temporarily.
3056
morbidadjective
Caused by or denoting a diseased or unsound condition of body or mind.
3057
mordaciousadjective
Biting or giving to biting.
3058
mordantadjective
Biting.
3059
moribundadjective
On the point of dying.
3060
moroseadjective
Gloomy.
3061
morphologynoun
the science of organic forms.
3062
motleyadjective
Composed of heterogeneous or inharmonious elements.
3063
mottonoun
An expressive word or pithy sentence enunciating some guiding rule of life, or faith.
3064
mountaineernoun
One who travels among or climbs mountains for pleasure or exercise.
3065
mountainousadjective
Full of or abounding in mountains.
3066
mouthfulnoun
As much as can be or is usually put into the or exercise.
3067
muddleverb
To confuse or becloud, especially with or as with drink.
3068
muffleverb
To deaden the sound of, as by wraps.
3069
mulattonoun
The offspring of a white person and a black person.
3070
muleteernoun
A mule-driver.
3071
multiformadjective
Having many shapes, or appearances.
3072
multiplicitynoun
the condition of being manifold or very various.
3073
mundaneadjective
Worldly, as opposed to spiritual or celestial.
3074
municipaladjective
Of or pertaining to a town or city, or to its corporate or local government.
3075
municipalitynoun
A district enjoying municipal government.
3076
munificencenoun
A giving characterized by generous motives and extraordinary liberality.
3077
munificentadjective
Extraordinarily generous.
3078
musternoun
An assemblage or review of troops for parade or inspection, or for numbering off.
3079
mutationnoun
The act or process of change.
3080
mutilateverb
To disfigure.
3081
mutinynoun
Rebellion against lawful or constituted authority.
3082
myriadnoun
A vast indefinite number.
3083
mysticnoun
One who professes direct divine illumination, or relies upon meditation to acquire truth.
3084
mystificationnoun
The act of artfully perplexing.
3085
mythnoun
A fictitious narrative presented as historical, but without any basis of fact.
3086
mythologynoun
The whole body of legends cherished by a race concerning gods and heroes.
3087
namelessadjective
Having no fame or reputation.
3088
naphthanoun
A light, colorless, volatile, inflammable oil used as a solvent, as in manufacture of paints.
3089
Narcissusnoun
The son of the Athenian river-god Cephisus, fabled to have fallen in love with his reflection.
3090
narrateverb
To tell a story.
3091
narrationnoun
The act of recounting the particulars of an event in the order of time or occurrence.
3092
narrativenoun
An orderly continuous account of the successive particulars of an event.
3093
narratornoun
One who narrates anything.
3094
narrow-mindedadjective
Characterized by illiberal views or sentiments.
3095
nasaladjective
Pertaining to the nose.
3096
nataladjective
Pertaining to one’s birth.
3097
nationalitynoun
A connection with a particular nation.
3098
naturallyadverb
According to the usual order of things.
3099
nauseanoun
An affection of the stomach producing dizziness and usually an impulse to vomit
3100
nauseateverb
To cause to loathe.
3101
nauseousadjective
Loathsome.
3102
nauticaladjective
Pertaining to ships, seamen, or navigation.
3103
navaladjective
Pertaining to ships.
3104
navelnoun
The depression on the abdomen where the umbilical cord of the fetus was attached.
3105
navigableadjective
Capable of commercial navigation.
3106
navigateverb
To traverse by ship.
3107
nebulanoun
A gaseous body of unorganized stellar substance.
3108
necessaryadjective
Indispensably requisite or absolutely needed to accomplish a desired result.
3109
necessitateverb
To render indispensable.
3110
necessitynoun
That which is indispensably requisite to an end desired.
3111
necrologynoun
A list of persons who have died in a certain place or time.
3112
necromancernoun
One who practices the art of foretelling the future by means of communication with the dead.
3113
necropolisnoun
A city of the dead.
3114
necrosisnoun
the death of part of the body.
3115
nectarnoun
Any especially sweet and delicious drink.
3116
nectarinenoun
A variety of the peach.
3117
needleworknoun
Embroidery.
3118
needyadjective
Being in need, want, or poverty.
3119
nefariousadjective
Wicked in the extreme.
3120
negateverb
To deny.
3121
negationnoun
The act of denying or of asserting the falsity of a proposition.
3122
neglectfuladjective
Exhibiting or indicating omission.
3123
negligeenoun
A loose gown worn by women.
3124
negligencenoun
Omission of that which ought to be done.
3125
negligentadjective
Apt to omit what ought to be done.
3126
negligibleadjective
Transferable by assignment, endorsement, or delivery.
3127
negotiableverb
To bargain with others for an agreement, as for a treaty or transfer of property.
3128
nemesisnoun
A goddess; divinity of chastisement and vengeance.
3129
neocracynoun
Government administered by new or untried persons.
3130
neo-Darwinsimnoun
Darwinism as modified and extended by more recent students.
3131
neo-Latinnoun
Modernized Latin.
3132
neopaganismnoun
A new or revived paganism.
3133
neolithicadjective
Pertaining to the later stone age.
3134
neologynoun
The coining or using of new words or new meanings of words.
3135
neophyteadjective
Having the character of a beginner.
3136
nestleverb
To adjust cozily in snug quarters.
3137
nestlingadjective
Recently hatched.
3138
nettleverb
To excite sensations of uneasiness or displeasure in.
3139
networknoun
Anything that presents a system of cross- lines.
3140
neuraladjective
Pertaining to the nerves or nervous system.
3141
neurologynoun
The science of the nervous system.
3142
neuteradjective
Neither masculine nor feminine.
3143
neutraladjective
Belonging to or under control of neither of two contestants.
3144
neverthelessconjunction
Notwithstanding.
3145
newtonianadjective
Of or pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, the English philosopher.
3146
niggardlyadjective
Stingy. (no longer acceptable to use)
3147
nihilistnoun
An advocate of the doctrine that nothing either exists or can be known.
3148
nilnoun
Nothing
3149
nimbleadjective
Light and quick in motion or action.
3150
nitnoun
The egg of a louse or some other insect.
3151
nocturnaladjective
Of or pertaining to the night.
3152
noiselessadjective
Silent.
3153
noisomeadjective
Very offensive, particularly to the sense of smell.
3154
noisyadjective
Clamorous.
3155
nomadadjective
Having no fixed abode.
3156
nomicadjective
Usual or customary.
3157
nominaladjective
Trivial.
3158
nominateverb
To designate as a candidate for any office.
3159
nominationnoun
The act or ceremony of naming a man or woman for office.
3160
nomineenoun
One who receives a nomination.
3161
non-existentnoun
That which does not exist.
3162
non-residentadjective
Not residing within a given jurisdiction.
3163
nonchalancenoun
A state of mind indicating lack of interest.
3164
non-combatantnoun
One attached to the army or navy, but having duties other than that of fighting.
3165
nondescriptadjective
Indescribable.
3166
nonentitynoun
A person or thing of little or no account.
3167
nonpareilnoun
One who or that which is of unequaled excellence.
3168
normnoun
A model.
3169
normalcynoun
The state of being normal.
3170
normanadjective
Of or peculiar to Normandy, in northern France.
3171
nostrumnoun
Any scheme or recipe of a charlatan character.
3172
noticeableadjective
Perceptible.
3173
notoriousadjective
Unfavorably known to the general public.
3174
novellettenoun
A short novel.
3175
novicenoun
A beginner in any business or occupation.
3176
nowadaysadverb
In the present time or age.
3177
nowhereadverb
In no place or state.
3178
noxiousadjective
Hurtful.
3179
nuancenoun
A slight degree of difference in anything perceptible to the sense of the mind.
3180
nucleusnoun
A central point or part about which matter is aggregated.
3181
nudeadjective
Naked.
3182
nugatoryadjective
Having no power or force.
3183
nuisancenoun
That which annoys, vexes, or irritates.
3184
numerationnoun
The act or art of reading or naming numbers.
3185
numericaladjective
Of or pertaining to number.
3186
nunnerynoun
A convent for nuns.
3187
nuptialadjective
Of or pertaining to marriage, especially to the marriage ceremony.
3188
nurturenoun
The process of fostering or promoting growth.
3189
nutrimentnoun
That which nourishes.
3190
nutritiveadjective
Having nutritious properties.
3191
oakenadjective
Made of or from oak.
3192
oakumnoun
Hemp-fiber obtained by untwisting and picking out loosely the yarns of old hemp rope.
3193
obdurateadjective
Impassive to feelings of humanity or pity.
3194
obelisknoun
A square shaft with pyramidal top, usually monumental or commemorative.
3195
obeseadjective
Exceedingly fat.
3196
obesitynoun
Excessive fatness.
3197
obituaryadjective
A published notice of a death.
3198
objectiveadjective
Grasping and representing facts as they are.
3199
objectornoun
One who objects, as to a proposition, measure, or ruling.
3200
obligateverb
To hold to the fulfillment of duty.
3201
obligatoryadjective
Binding in law or conscience.
3202
obliqueadjective
Slanting; said of lines.
3203
obliterateverb
To cause to disappear.
3204
oblivionnoun
The state of having passed out of the memory or of being utterly forgotten.
3205
oblongadjective
Longer than broad: applied most commonly to rectangular objects considerably elongated
3206
obnoxiousadjective
Detestable.
3207
obsequiesnoun
Funeral rites.
3208
obsequiousadjective
Showing a servile readiness to fall in with the wishes or will of another.
3209
observancenoun
A traditional form or customary act.
3210
observantadjective
Quick to notice.
3211
observatorynoun
A building designed for systematic astronomical observations.
3212
obsolescencenoun
The condition or process of gradually falling into disuse.
3213
obsolescentadjective
Passing out of use, as a word.
3214
obsoleteadjective
No longer practiced or accepted.
3215
obstetriciannoun
A practitioner of midwifery.
3216
obstetricsnoun
The branch of medical science concerned with the treatment and care of women during pregnancy.
3217
obstinacynoun
Stubborn adherence to opinion, arising from conceit or the desire to have one’s own way.
3218
obstreperousadjective
Boisterous.
3219
obstructverb
To fill with impediments so as to prevent passage, either wholly or in part.
3220
obstructionnoun
Hindrance.
3221
obtrudeverb
To be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence.
3222
obtrusiveadjective
Tending to be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence.
3223
obvertverb
To turn the front or principal side of (a thing) toward any person or object.
3224
obviateverb
To clear away or provide for, as an objection or difficulty.
3225
occasionnoun
An important event or celebration.
3226
Occidentnoun
The countries lying west of Asia and the Turkish dominions.
3227
occludeverb
To absorb, as a gas by a metal.
3228
occultadjective
Existing but not immediately perceptible.
3229
occupantnoun
A tenant in possession of property, as distinguished from the actual owner.
3230
occurrencenoun
A happening.
3231
octagonnoun
A figure with eight sides and eight angles.
3232
octavenoun
A note at this interval above or below any other, considered in relation to that other.
3233
octavonoun
A book, or collection of paper in which the sheets are so folded as to make eight leaves.
3234
octogenarianadjective
A person of between eighty and ninety years.
3235
ocularadjective
Of or pertaining to the eye.
3236
oculistnoun
One versed or skilled in treating diseases of the eye.
3237
odditynoun
An eccentricity.
3238
odenoun
The form of lyric poetry anciently intended to be sung.
3239
odiousadjective
Hateful.
3240
odiumnoun
A feeling of extreme repugnance, or of dislike and disgust.
3241
odoriferousadjective
Having or diffusing an odor or scent, especially an agreeable one.
3242
odorousadjective
Having an odor, especially a fragrant one.
3243
offadjective
Farther or more distant.
3244
offhandadverb
Without preparation.
3245
officiateverb
To act as an officer or leader.
3246
officiousadjective
Intermeddling with what is not one’s concern.
3247
offshootnoun
Something that branches off from the parent stock.
3248
ogrenoun
A demon or monster that was supposed to devour human beings.
3249
ointmentnoun
A fatty preparation with a butter-like consistency in which a medicinal substance exists.
3250
olfactoryadjective
of or pertaining to the sense of smell.