
IELTS VOCABULARY

Badinage – Witty conversation.
Sentence – We had badinage last night.

Carp – complaint continually
Sentence – My neighbours keep carping about poor facilities in our town.

Effete – no more effective
Sentence – During the middle ages, civilisation declined and became effete.

Hark – remind something from the past
Sentence – She was harking back to childhood upon seeing her school.

Ineffable – too scared to be spoken.
Sentence – The beauty of a sunset is ineffable.

Jink – sudden change of direction
Sentence – The pilot jinked the plane for an emergency landing.

Knoll – small hill
Sentence – The resort is ideally located amidst knolls.

Mettle – strength during difficulty
Sentence – One must try to practice mettle in crisis.

Nimble – Quick or agile in movement.
Sentence – The dwarf nimble easily through the crowd.

Rectitude – morally correct behaviour
Sentence – She is a model of rectitude.

Uncanny – strange
Sentence – The portrait’s appearance was uncanny.

Antipathy – dislike
Sentence – She has big antipathy towards cats .

Fetid – unpleasant smell
Sentence – These cats are staying in fetid, dark sheds and barns.

Extol – praise
Sentence – Her mother extol her for good results

Furtive – secrete
Sentence – She is very furtive.

Ailment – sick or ill
Sentence – She succumbed to her ailment
IELTS VOCABULARY

IELTS VOCABULARY