BEST VOCABULARY WORDS FOR IELTS – 456

hlegmatic : expressing little or no emotion

Sentence : He portrays the phlegmatic British character on the show.

Promulgate : to broadcast or announce

sentence: These objectives have to be promulgated within the organization.

Quotidian : something that is of daily occurrence

Sentence : The car sped noisily off through the quotidian traffic.

Recalcitrant : resistant to authority

Sentence : A class of recalcitrant fifteen-year-olds raided the store.

Sanctimonious : the pretence of being morally pious to exhibit moral superiority

Sentence : What happened to all the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first?

Solipsism : the philosophical theory that only the self-existence is known and all that exists

Sentence : We cannot avoid the popularity of the solipsism mentality.

Travesty : distorting facts or imitation

Sentence : The absurdly lenient sentence is a travesty of justice.

Travesty : distorting facts or imitation

Sentence : The absurdly lenient sentence is a travesty of justice.

Vicissitude  an unwelcome or unpleasant change in circumstances or fortune

Sentence : Her husband’s sharp vicissitudes of fortune.