IELTS Vocabulary Part – 217

Effrontery – extreme rudeness without any ability to understand that your behaviour is not acceptable to other people.

Sentence – That indestructible, inward effrontery in the meagre fellow was what made men so down on Michaelis.

Egregious – extremely bad in a way that is very noticeable.

Sentence – The legal system currently punishes the most egregious forms of child abuse and neglect, but such crimes are difficult to prove.

Enervate – to make someone feel weak and without energy.

Sentence – Elsewhere, callow phrasing, smudged ensemble and enervated rhythms were commonplace.

Ephemeral – lasting for only a short time.

Sentence – Some were, of course, ephemeral, including books and articles written in the 1930s when he lived by his pen.

Eschew – to avoid something intentionally, or to give something up.

Sentence – Such people tend to eschew suddenly popular names drawn from the world of entertainment.

Evanescent- lasting for only a short time, then disappearing quickly and being forgotten.

Sentence – Moreover, the partly uncomprehended properties of the evanescent waves in the LHM slab are also disclosed.

Evince – to make something obvious or show something clearly.

Sentence – Even Barbara, who evinces by various proclamations a belief in my innocence, has never asked me directly.

Exculpate – to remove blame from someone.

Sentence – Happily, Mr Obama has the authority needed to lead the world towards a resolution: his hands are clean, and his lack of desire to exculpate his country is evident.

Execrable – very bad.

Sentence – Telerobot system can be widely used in high altitude exploration, deep-ocean exploitation, remote task or dangerous and execrable task environment.

Expiate – to show that you are sorry for bad behaviour by doing something or accepting punishment.

Sentence – As he walked he pondered dully on the crime he was trying to expiate, the murder of Clare’s happiness.

Expunge – to rub off or remove information from a piece of writing.

Sentence – My karma was to help her expunge her personal devils by being smaller than she was when she was angry.

Extant – used to refer to something very old that is still existing.

Sentence – And not just because there is no extant reference to the sculpture from the first three centuries after the warrior’s death.

Extol – to praise something or someone very much.

Sentence – But now is not the time to be extolling the virtues of Anglo-Saxon shareholder capitalism.

Fallacious – not correct.

Sentence – If we are to avoid this foundationalist conclusion we shall have to show that the regress argument is fallacious.

Fastidious – giving too much attention to small details and wanting everything to be correct and perfect.

Sentence – It stands for a fastidious aesthetic sense of something having turned out wrong in the wide world.

Fatuous – stupid, not correct, or not carefully thought about.

Sentence – Hesitating, Eline pushed open the door, it seemed fatuous to knock, a foolish act of politeness in the circumstances.

Feral – existing in a wild state, especially describing an animal that was previously kept by people.

Sentence – The striking success of feral horses is ample proof that their behaviour patterns are not only persistent but survival-oriented.

Fetid – smelling extremely bad and stale.

Sentence – Her nose twitched to the smell: mouldy and fetid like sweaty clothes left to stew in a plastic bag.

Florid – with too much decoration or detail.

Sentence – The later florid accounts of altruism and sacrifice by and about missionaries do not do justice to the range of human impulses.