BEST Vocabulary Words for IELTS – 495

Escapade: an act or incident involving excitement, daring, or adventure.

Sentence: “he told of their escapade with a ‘borrowed’ truck

Dalliances: a period of brief or casual involvement with something.

Sentence: “Berkeley was my last dalliance with the education system”

Coquetry: Flirtatious behaviour.

Sentence: “‘I like the way you laugh,’ he said without coquetry”

Dilettante: a person who is or seems to be interested in a subject, but whose understanding of it is not very deep or serious:

Sentence: He’s a bit of a dilettante as far as wine is concerned.

Misanthropy: the fact or quality of not liking other people:

Sentence: The only way I can express my misanthropy is through humour.

Melancholic: feeling or expressing pensive sadness.

Sentence: “his work often has a wistful or melancholic mood”

Ruminative: thinking deeply and for a long period:

Sentence: Her writing is less descriptive, more ruminative.

Croon: to sing or talk in a low, gentle, musical voice:

Sentence: He held his baby in his arms and crooned softly to her