BEST VOCABULARY WORDS FOR IELTS – 434

Ruddy – inclined to a healthy reddish color

Sentence – The prime minister, his face ruddy with disdain, responded by calling Balls a “muttering idiot.”

 Bourgeois – being of the property-owning class

Sentence – Ashamed of being only a bourgeois, he was squandering his fortune at Paris under an assumed title.

 Bourgeois – being of the property-owning class

Sentence – Ashamed of being only a bourgeois, he was squandering his fortune at Paris under an assumed title.

Prosaic – lacking wit or imagination

Sentence- But inside Greece, local leaders are struggling with more prosaic concerns, like trash pickups.

Profligate – unrestrained by convention or morality

Sentence – German voters are even more skeptical than their leaders about financing their “slothful” and “ profligate” neighbour’s.

Hoary – having gray or white hair as with age

Sentence – By thy glad youth, and tranquil prime Assured, I smile at hoary time!

Blase – nonchalantly unconcerned

Sentence – Westwood is blase about going to next week’s major as world number one or being favorite to win at Royal St George’s.

Blase – nonchalantly unconcerned

Sentence – Westwood is blase about going to next week’s major as world number one or being favorite to win at Royal St George’s.

Baleful – threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

There were no baleful stares at his box, only fist pumps after winning a well-played point.

Ostensible – appearing as such but not necessarily so

Sentence – Google insists its data gathering practice is done for the ostensible purpose of better serving its users.

Odium – hate coupled with disgust

Sentence – It is now forgotten that with one exception—Johnson—no President ever went out of office so loaded with odium as Washington.

Obsequious – attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

Sentence – An obsequious servant brings me a rump steak, grilled to perfection, and so tender that it melts in the mouth.

Grandiloquent – lofty in style

Sentence – Nothing is so distressing in an argument as to have a burst of grandiloquent sentiment set aside by a few words of common sense.