BEST Vocabulary Words for IELTS – 496

Commemoration: something that is done to remember officially and give respect to a great person or event:

Sentence: A set of stamps has been commissioned in commemoration of Independence Day.

Jocularity: the quality of being happy and liking to make jokes:

Sentence: There’s a kind of forced jocularity to his writing.

Gambol: to run and jump in a happy way:

Sentence: Lambs were gambolling (about/around) in the spring sunshine.

Levity: humour or lack of seriousness, especially during a serious occasion:

Sentence: a brief moment of levity amid the solemn proceedings

Frivolity: behaviour that is silly and not serious, or things that are silly and not important:

Sentence: You shouldn’t treat such a serious subject with frivolity.

Frolic: to play and behave in a happy way:

Sentence: A group of suntanned children were frolicking on the beach.

Hilarity: a situation in which people laugh very loudly and think

Sentence: something is very funny: “his incredulous expression was the cause of much hilarity

Jesting: the action of saying or doing something for amusement.

Sentence: “laughing and jesting were out of the question”