BEST Vocabulary Words for IELTS – 513
Anodyne: capable of relieving pain
Sentence: The music was an anodyne to his grief
Bemused: puzzled, confused, or bewildered.
Sentence: “Lucy looked a little bemused”
Dulcet: pleasing to the ear
Sentence: Record the dulcet tones of your family and friends
Vocabulary Words for IELTS
Gadfly: a persistently annoying person
Sentence: The journalist was known as a gadfly for exposing hypocrisy in politics
Malaise: a feeling of mild sickness or depression
Sentence: They claim it is a symptom of a deeper and more general malaise in society
Halcyon: calm; peaceful; tranquil
Sentence: The halcyon days of the mid 1980s, when profits were soaring
Viscous: thick or sticky: not flowing easily
Sentence: You had lost so much fluid that your blood had become viscous
Roil: be agitated
Sentence: Financial markets have been roiled by the banking crisis
