These words are indispensable for IELTS exam. You need to use them in your Speaking and Writing Test. In general, these words will greatly improve your IELTS Score. Prepare and practice just before your IELTS test, You will be able to impress your examiner with them.
● aberration: something that differs from the norm
● abhor: fill with horror and loathing; horrify; hate
● acquiesce: assent; agree without protesting
● alacrity: cheerful promptness or willingness; eagerness; speed or quickness
● amiable: good-natured and likable; lovable; warmly friendly
● appease: bring peace, quiet, or calm to; satisfy or relieve
● arcane: secret; mysterious; known only to the initiated
● avarice: greediness for wealth; insatiable desire of gain
● brazen: having loud, usually harsh, resonant sound; shameless
● brusque: abrupt and curt in manner or speech; rudely abrupt, unfriendly
● cajole: influence or urge by gentle urging or flattering
● callous: emotionally hardened; unfeeling
● candor: frankness; quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
● chide: scold mildly so as to correct or improve; express disapproval
● circumspect: carefully aware of all circumstances; cautious
● clandestine: secret; conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
● coerce: restrain by force, especially by law or authority; repress; curb
● coherent: adhesive; cohesive; sticking together ; logical; sound; capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner
● complacency: feeling of contented self-satisfaction, especially when unaware of upcoming trouble
● confidant: a person entrusted with secrets
● connive: to plot, scheme
● cumulative: increasing by successive addition
● debase: reduce in quality or value; lower in esteem; degrade
● decry: express strong disapproval of; disparage
● deferential: showing deference; respectful and considerate
● demure: modest and reserved in manner or behavior
● deride: ridicule; make fun of; laugh at with contempt
● despot: tyrant; harsh, authoritarian ruler; eastern Orthodox bishop
● diligent: assiduous; industrious; hard-working
● elated: overjoyed; extremely happy and excited
● eloquent: vividly or movingly expressive; persuasive
● embezzle: appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property entrusted to one's care; apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust
● empathy: understanding and entering into another's feelings
● enmity: ill will; hatred; quality or state of being hostile
● erudite: learned; scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books
● extol: praise highly; glorify; celebrate
● fabricate: build; put together out of components or parts
● feral: not domestic; wild; existing in wild or untamed state
● flabbergasted: astonished; appalled, amazed, or stunned
● forsake: leave someone who needs or counts on you
● fractious: inclined to make trouble; disobedient; irritable
● furtive: marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
● gluttony: excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity
● gratuitous: given freely; unwarranted; granted without recompense; unearned
● haughty: high; lofty; bold; arrogant; overbearing
● hypocrisy: act or practice of a hypocrite
● impeccable: faultless; incapable of sin or wrongdoing
● impertinent: improperly forward or bold; rude
● implacable: incapable of being pacified; not to be relieved;
● impudent: casually rude, insolent, impertinent
● incisive: penetrating, clear, and sharp, as in operation or expression
● indolent: lazy; slow to heal, grow, or develop; inactive
● inept: lacking of judgment, sense, or reason; unsuited; inappropriate; foolish
● infamy: notoriety, extreme ill repute
● inhibit: restrain; prevent or forbid; hold back
● innate: possessed at birth; inborn
● insatiable: not easily satisfied; impossible to satiate or satisfy; greedy
● insular: of isolated people, especially having a narrow viewpoint
● intrepid: fearless; indicating or springing from courage
● inveterate: deep-rooted; firmly and long established; habitual
● jubilant: happy; merry; joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success
● knell: the solemn sound of a bell, often indicating a death
● lithe: flexible; moving and bending with ease
● lurid: causing shock or horror; gruesome
● maverick: one that refuses to abide or be independent; an unbranded range animal
● maxim: proverb; formulation of fundamental principle or general truth
● meticulous: excessively careful; marked by extreme care in treatment of details
● modicum: limited quantity; small or moderate amount; any small thing
● morose: ill humored; sullen; depressingly dark; gloomy; persistent
● myriad: of very large or indefinite number; of ten thousand
● nadir: lowest point; point on sphere opposites zenith diametrically
● nominal: in name only; insignificantly small
● novice: beginner; person new to a field or activity
● nuance: subtle or slight degree of difference
● oblivious: inattentive or unmindful; lacking all memory; forgetful
● obsequious: slavishly attentive; attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
● obtuse: lacking in insight or discernment; stupid
● panacea: remedy for all diseases, evils, or difficulties; a cure-all
● parody: work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony; make fun of
● penchant: strong inclination; definite liking
● perusal: a careful examination, review
● plethora: excess; overfullness in any respect; superabundance
● predilection: condition of favoring or liking; tendency towards; preference
● quaint: odd; old-fashioned; picturesque; unfamiliar or unusual in character
● rash: hasty, incautious
● repudiate: disown; refuse to acknowledge; reject validity or authority of
● rife: excessively abundant or numerous; in widespread existence, practice, or use
● salient: prominent or protruding; projecting outwardly; moving by leaps or springs
● serendipity: gift for finding valuable or desirable things by accident; accidental good fortune or luck
● staid: sober; serious, organized, and professional; characterized by dignity and propriety
● superfluous: being beyond what is required or sufficient
● sycophant: one who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people; bootlicker; yes man
● taciturn: silent or reserved in speech; saying little; not inclined to speak or converse
● refurbish: to restore, clean up
● truculent: disposed to fight; belligerent; aggressively hostile
● umbrage: resentment, offence
● venerable: deserving high respect; impressive by reason of age; profoundly honored
● vex: annoy; disturb, especially by minor irritations; be a mystery or bewildering to
● vociferous: offensively loud; noisy; making outcry
● wanton: unrestrained; willfully malicious; immoral or unchaste
● zenith: point directly overhead in sky; summit
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