BEST VOCABULARY WORDS FOR IELTS – 283

Conker – the hard, shiny dark brown nut of a horse chestnut tree.

Sentence – He found a dirty handkerchief, a conker on a piece of string.

Smoulder – burn slowly with smoke but no flame.

Sentence – Her eyes smoulder with jealousy.

Tureen – a deep covered dish from which soup is served.

Sentence – Pour mussels into a tureen or large bowl.

Astounded – shock or greatly surprise.

Sentence – I’m absolutely astounded.

Endowed – provide with a quality, ability, or asset.

Sentence – She is endowed with great musical ability.

 Frivolous – not having any serious purpose or value.

Sentence – This is a frivolous way of attacking the problem.

Cobbled – paved with cobbles.

Sentence – The place is a cobbled triangle.

Larder – a room or large cupboard for storing food.

Sentence – There wasn’t much food left in the larder.

Vandal – a person who deliberately destroys property belonging to others.

Sentence – Vandal have pull the telephone out of the call boxes.

Deceitful – guilty of or involving deceit

Sentence – You’ve been going there without telling me, you deceitful child!

Forlorn – pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely.

Sentence – pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely.

Pretext – a reason given in justification of a course of action that is not the real reason.

Sentence – The incident provided the pretext for war.

Fathomless – unable to be measured or understood; extremely deep.

Sentence – The silence was fathomless and overwhelming.

Ornate – elaborately or highly decorated.

Sentence – The style is ornate and highly decorative

Indentation – the action of indenting or the state of being indented.

Sentence – Gently make a small indentation in the center of each cookie.

Confide – trust (someone) enough to tell them of a secret or private matter.

Sentence – There’s no one here I can confide in.