BEST VOCABULARY WORDS FOR IELTS – 454

Statur – a person’s natural height.

Sentence – His stature as an art critic was tremendous.

Dreadful – involving great suffering, fear,

Sentence – They told us the dreadful news.

Perfidy -the state of being untrustworthy.

Sentence – As devotion unites lovers , so perfidy estranges friends.

Hostage – a person seized or held as security for the fulfilment of a condition.

Sentence – Eight people were held hostage for four months.

Sissy – oversensitive person

Sentence – You may be a sissy but I’ll still pound you onto ground.

Dizzy – make (someone) feel unsteady

Sentence – I’m feeling a bit weak and dizzy.

Poisonous-capable of causing death

Sentence – Chocolate is poisonous to dogs.

Inundation-an overwhelming abundance of people

Sentence – Otherwise, inundation would ensue to our dismay.

Attic – room inside or partly inside the roof of a building

Sentence – room inside or partly inside the roof of a building

Cellar -a room below ground level in a house

Sentence – We went downstairs from the kitchen to the cellar.

Onus – something that is one’s duty

Sentence – The onus of proof lies with the prosecution