IELTS VOCABULARY

Suave: smooth, polite, and a little bit cool.

Sentence: ‘He is so poised and suave especially in front of the ladies’

Atrocious: very cruel, evil, brutal, terrible, offensive, appalling.

Sentence: The recent incidents of rape in Delhi were atrocious

Stupendous: amazing, astonishing or overwhelming

Sentence: I am reading a stupendous novel that I just can’t put down.

In a fix: in a troublesome situation.

Sentence: He always turns to me for help when he’s in a fix, but when the going
is good he forgets me.

Flummox: to confuse someone so much that they don’t know what to do.

Sentence: The tourist was flummoxed by the strange customs he saw on his travels.

Rendezvous: meeting’ or ‘date’

Sentence: The police arranged to rendezvous with their informant at an old warehouse

Obtuse: describes someone who is stupid, dumb, slow, unintelligent,

Sentence: The obtuse student was not able to answer a single test question.

Sluggish: to be slower than usual, having less energy and moving in a tired and slow manner

Sentence: The Economy has been very sluggish for the past few months