IELTS Vocabulary Part – 229

MASTERPIECE – A supreme intellectual or artistic achievement.

Sentence – The painting is the masterpiece in the truest sense of the world.

SKETCH – a rough or unfinished drawing or painting,

Sentence – She later helped police make a composite sketch of the killer.

JEWEL – A precious stone, typically a single crystal or piece of a hard lustrous or translucent mineral cut into shape with flat facets or smoothed and polished for use as an ornament.

Sentence – It is often said of our island that it is like a jewel set in the sea.

OPUS – An artistic work, especially one on a large scale.

Sentence – He showed us his latest opus, a rather awful painting of a vase of flowers.

TREASURE – Keep carefully.

Sentence – My mother gave me the ring and I’ll treasure it always.

CATASTROPHE – An event causing great and usually sudden damage or suffering; a disaster.

Sentence – A violent earthquake preceded the catastrophe, by which nine villages were destroyed.

CLUNKER – A dilapidated vehicle or machine.

Sentence – Old clunkers are the primary source of pollution.

DUD – A thing that fails to work properly or is otherwise unsatisfactory or worthless.

Sentence – One of the big fireworks we bought exploded in the night while the other was a useless dud.

FIASCO – A complete failure, especially a ludicrous or humiliating one.

Sentence -The conference degenerated into a complete fiasco.

SLUR – Speak (words) indistinctly so that the sounds run into one another.

Sentence – His comments cast a slur on the integrity of his employees.

SMIRCH – Make something dirty; soil.

Sentence – The window was smirched by heat and smoke.

SMUDGE – Cause (something) to become messily smeared by rubbing it.

Sentence – There was a faint smudge of scarlet below the pressure lock.

EYESORE – A thing that is very ugly, especially a building.

Sentence – That old block of flats is a real eyesore!

FRIGHT – A sudden intense feeling of fear.

Sentence – His face was a mask of fright.

MESS – a dirty or untidy state of things or of a place.

Sentence – He made a frightful mess in the kitchen.

WASHOUT – a breach in a road or railway track caused by flooding.

Sentence – Last summer was a bit of a washout here.

BLEMISH – to spoil by a flaw.

Sentence – She has a blemish above her right eye.

STIGMA – A mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person.

Sentence – The stigma of having gone to prison will always be with me”

ETUDE – a composition built on a technical motive but played for its artistic value.

Sentence – Before I could respond, my cell phone played a Trip Hope etude.

FEDORA – a man’s hat, like a trilby but with a wider brim.

SENTENCE – In live performances and photographs, he wears the stereotypical fedora and trench coat.