IELTS VOCABULARY

Calloused: (of a part of the body) having an area of hardened skin.

Sentence: Their feet were calloused and bleeding from months of walking barefoot.

Scrawny: Unpleasantly thin, often with bones showing:

Sentence: He came home after three months at college looking terribly scrawny.

Brawny: Physical strength and big muscles:

Sentence: He grabbed me with his brawny arm.

Blushing: Red in the face from shyness, embarrassment, or shame.

Sentence: She could feel herself blushing.

Fidgety: Restless or uneasy.

Sentence: I get nervous and fidgety at the dentist.

Brunette: A person with dark brown hair (typically used by a woman)

Sentence: The pretty brunette has insisted she is a versatile performer.

Freckled: having small, pale brown spots on the skin, usually on the face:

Sentence: Her dark hair dangled in tiny twists that framed her pixieish, freckled face.

Flabby: soft, loose, and fleshy.

Sentence: “this exercise helps to flatten a flabby stomach”