BEST VOCABULARY WORDS FOR IELTS – 291

Effigy – a sculpture or model of a person.

Sentence – He gave me a toy coffin with an effigy of my mom inside it.

Wend – go in a specified direction, typically slowly or by an indirect route.

Sentence – We wended through the narrow streets.

Jeopardy – danger of loss, harm, or failure.

Sentence – Thousands of jobs are in jeopardy.

Trepidation – a feeling of fear or anxiety about something that may happen.

Sentence – We view future developments with some trepidation

Warily – cautiously; carefully.

Sentence – She eyed him warily .

Beseech – ask urgently and fervently to do something

Sentence – As soon as I reach the driving age, I will beseech my parents to buy me a car.

Replete – filled or well-supplied with something.

Sentence – The book is replete with photographs.

Transient – lasting only for a short time

Sentence – The snow is transient and will melt as soon as the sun appears.

Gnarled – knobbly, rough, and twisted

Sentence – The old man drew a long, gnarled finger across his throat.

Sublime – of very great excellence or beauty.

Sentence – The food was absolutely sublime.

Compunction – a feeling of guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows the doing of something bad.

Sentence – I felt some compunction at having kept her waiting.

Sinew – a piece of tough fibrous tissue uniting muscle to bone

Sentence – She could feel every bone and sinew of him.

Guileless – innocent and without deception.

Sentence – I was guileless and awkward in sports.

Zeitgeist – the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time.

Sentence – The title audacious but it captured the western zeitgeist.