BEST VOCABULARY WORDS FOR IELTS – 317

Gratuitous – Uncalled for or unwarranted

Sentence: The film was criticized for its gratuitous violence.

 Iconoclast – Someone who criticizes or attacks cherished ideas and beliefs

Sentence: Notorious as an iconoclast, that music critic isn’t afraid to go after sacred cows.

Incumbent – A person who is currently in an official position.

Sentence: He defeated the incumbent governor by a large plurality.

Inveterate – Habitual

Sentence: He has an inveterate tendency to tell some very tall tales

Libertarian – Someone who cherishes ideas of free will

Sentence:  This pinpoints a fundamental weakness in the libertarian defense of a market economy.

Pertinacious – Someone who is stubbornly unyielding

Sentence – A pertinacious little boy who was determined to catch and collect reptiles

Phlegmatic – Expressing little or no emotion

Sentence – The British character is often said to be phlegmatic.

 Promulgate – To broadcast or announce

Sentence: Her ideas have been widely promulgated on the Internet.

Travesty – Distorting facts or imitation

Sentence – The trial was a travesty of justice.

Ubiquitous – Omnipresent or existing everywhere

Sentence – Apple is working to make Siri a little more ubiquitous, and to that end, is finally opening Siri up to third-party devices.

Vicissitude – An unwelcome or unpleasant change in circumstances or fortune

Sentence – He experienced several great social vicissitudes in his life.

Vociferous – Something or someone who is offensively/conspicuously loud

Sentence – He was vociferous in his support of the proposal.