📌 100 IELTS Vocabulary (PART 1)

♦️Panacea
the goddess of healing
♦️aberration
a state or condition markedly different from the norm
♦️abhor
find repugnant
♦️acquiesce
agree or express agreement
♦️alacrity
liveliness and eagerness
♦️amiable
diffusing warmth and friendliness
♦️appease
make peace with
♦️arcane
requiring secret or mysterious knowledge
♦️avarice
reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
♦️brazen
unrestrained by convention or propriety
♦️brusque
rudely abrupt or blunt in speech or manner
♦️cajole
influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
♦️callous
emotionally hardened
♦️candor
the quality of being honest and straightforward
♦️chide
scold or reprimand severely or angrily
♦️circumspect
careful to consider potential consequences and avoid risk
♦️clandestine
conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
♦️coerce
cause to do through pressure or necessity
♦️coherent
marked by an orderly and consistent relation of parts
♦️complacency
the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself
♦️confidant
someone to whom private matters are told
♦️connive
form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
♦️cumulative
increasing by successive addition
♦️debase
make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
♦️decry
express strong disapproval of
♦️deferential
showing courteous regard for people's feelings
♦️demure
shy or modest, often in a playful or provocative way
♦️deride
treat or speak of with contempt
♦️despot
a cruel and oppressive dictator
♦️diligent
quietly and steadily persevering in detail or exactness
♦️elated
exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits
♦️eloquent
expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively
♦️embezzle
appropriate fraudulently to one's own use
♦️empathy
understanding and entering into another's feelings
♦️enmity
a state of deep-seated ill-will
♦️erudite
having or showing profound knowledge
♦️extol
praise, glorify, or honor
♦️fabricate
put together out of artificial or natural components
♦️feral
wild and menacing
♦️flabbergasted
as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise
♦️forsake
leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
♦️fractious
easily irritated or annoyed
♦️furtive
secret and sly or sordid
♦️gluttony
habitual eating to excess
♦️gratuitous
unnecessary and unwarranted
♦️haughty
having or showing arrogant superiority

📌 100 IELTS Vocabulary (PART 2)

♦️hypocrisy
pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not have
♦️impeccable
without fault or error
♦️impertinent
improperly forward or bold
♦️implacable
incapable of being appeased or pacified
♦️impudent
improperly forward or bold
♦️incisive
demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
♦️indolent
disinclined to work or exertion
♦️inept
generally incompetent and ineffectual
♦️infamy
a state of extreme dishonor
♦️inhibit
limit the range or extent of
♦️innate
present at birth but not necessarily hereditary
♦️insatiable
impossible to fulfill, appease, or gratify
♦️insular
relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island
♦️intrepid
invulnerable to fear or intimidation
♦️inveterate
habitual
♦️jubilant
full of high-spirited delight
♦️knell
the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death
♦️lithe
moving and bending with ease
♦️lurid
glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
♦️maverick
someone who exhibits independence in thought and action
♦️meticulous
marked by precise accordance with details
♦️modicum
a small or moderate or token amount
♦️morose
showing a brooding ill humor
♦️myriad
a large indefinite number
♦️nadir
the lowest point of anything
♦️nominal
relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name
♦️novice
someone new to a field or activity
♦️nuance
a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
♦️oblivious
lacking conscious awareness of
♦️obsequious
attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
♦️obtuse
of an angle, between 90 and 180 degrees
♦️parody
a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style
♦️penchant
a strong liking
♦️perusal
the act of examining or reading carefully
♦️plethora
extreme excess
♦️predilection
a predisposition in favor of something
♦️quaint
attractively old-fashioned
♦️rash
imprudently incurring risk
♦️refurbish
improve the appearance or functionality of
♦️repudiate
refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid
♦️rife
excessively abundant
♦️salient
conspicuous, prominent, or important
♦️serendipity
good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries
♦️staid
characterized by dignity and propriety
♦️superfluous
more than is needed, desired, or required
♦️sycophant
a person who tries to please someone to gain an advantage
♦️taciturn
habitually reserved and uncommunicative
♦️truculent
defiantly aggressive
♦️umbrage
a feeling of anger caused by being offended
♦️venerable
profoundly honored
♦️vex
disturb, especially by minor irritations
♦️vociferous
conspicuously and offensively loud
♦️wanton
a lewd or immoral person
♦️zenith
the point above the observer directly opposite the nadir