BEST VOCABULARY WORDS FOR IELTS – 434

Puissant –  powerful

Sentence – The young man has a puissant body.

Gruel –  a thin porridge

Sentence –  We had gruel for the breakfast.

Bombastic – ostentatiously lofty in style

Sentence – He is best known for three rather bombastic poems.

Tithe – a levy of one tenth of something

Sentence – Its bell is preserved in the Tithe Barn Museum.

Denouement – the outcome of a complex sequence of events

Sentence  – In a surprising denouement, she becomes a nun.

Fortitude – strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity

Sentence – She bore her illness with great fortitude.

Agog – highly excited

Sentence – We waited agog for news.

 Agape – with the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe

Sentence – We watched, our mouths agape in excitement.

Nebula –  an immense cloud of gas and dust in interstellar space

Sentence – The Trifid Nebula is about 40 light-years across.

Censorious – harshly critical or expressing censure

Sentence – She fixed her daughter with a censorious eye.

Censorious – harshly critical or expressing censure

Sentence – She fixed her daughter with a censorious eye.