BEST Vocabulary Words for IELTS – 486

Abomination: something that you dislike and disapprove of:

Sentence: Cruelty to animals is an abomination.

Damned: used to express anger with someone or something:

Sentence: This damned printer won’t work.

Blasted: used in phrases to express anger:

Sentence: I’ve forgotten my blasted keys!

Dickens: used in questions to express anger or surprise:

Sentence: What the dickens are you doing with that paint?

Dilapidated: old and in poor condition:

Sentence: The hotel we stayed in was really dilapidated.

Doom: death, destruction, or any very bad situation that cannot be avoided:

Sentence: A sense of doom hung over the entire country.

Drool: to allow saliva (= liquid in the mouth) to flow out of your mouth:

Sentence: The dog lay drooling on the mat.

Eerie: strange in a frightening and mysterious way:

Sentence: She heard the eerie noise of the wind howling through the trees.

Frenzy:  uncontrolled and excited behaviour or emotion that is sometimes violent:

Sentence: In a moment of jealous frenzy, she cut the sleeves off all his shirts.

Ghoulish: ugly and unpleasant, or frightening:

Sentence: He takes a ghoulish delight in reading about horrific murders.