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New Vocabulary words for IELTS test

Vocabulary is an important part of English that helps you deal with all kinds of questions in objective as well as descriptive papers of various exams. You can learn new words daily and make your own sentences on the basis of the given word list. Here are a few words and phrases from articles published in a reputed Newspaper.


1. Grouse: (verb) 

  • Meaning: to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely
  • Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bleat, carp, caterwaul, complain, crab, croak, fuss, gripe, grouch, growl, grumble, grump, holler, inveigh,murmur, mutter, nag, scream, squawk, squeal
  • Antonyms: crow, delight, rejoice
  • Usage: Fans have groused that the higher prices are unfair.


2. Devolve: (verb)

  • Meaning: to become worse or of less value
  • Synonyms: atrophy, crumble, decay, decline, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, ebb, regress, retrograde, rot, sink, worsen
  • Antonyms: ameliorate, improve, meliorate
  • Usage: A conversation that devolved into an argument.


3. Stall: (verb) 

  • Meaning: to bring (something) to a standstill
  • Synonyms: arrest, bring up, catch, check, draw up, fetch up, halt, hold up, pull up, stay, still, stop
  • Antonyms: start (up)
  • Usage: If initiatives on the political front have been so stalled, efforts to revive the economy do not offer much promise either.


4. Sinister: (adjective)

  • Meaning: being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come
  • Synonyms: baleful, dire, direful, foreboding, ill, ill-boding, inauspicious, menacing, minatory, ominous, portentous, threatening
  • Antonyms: unthreatening
  • Usage: The movie relies too much on sinister background music to create the suspense that the plot sorely lacks.


5. Concede: (verb)

  • Meaning: to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly
  • Synonyms: acknowledge, admit, agree, allow, confess,grant
  • Antonyms: deny
  • Usage: She grudgingly conceded his point.


6. Oaf: (noun)

  • Meaning: a big clumsy often slow-witted person
  • Synonyms: clod, clodhopper, gawk, hulk, lout, lubber, lug, lump, Neanderthal
  • Antonyms: brain, genius
  • Usage: With the oaf’s foolish answer in class, everyone rolled their eyes and ignored any future answers he would say


7. Outlive: (verb)

  • Meaning: to last longer than
  • Synonyms: outlast, outwear
  • Usage: Tortoises will outlive most people, as they live to be over 100 years old.


8. Frantically: (adverb)

  • Meaning: in a confused and reckless manner
  • Synonyms: amok,berserk, berserkly, frenetically, frenziedly, hectically, madly, pell-mell, wild, wildly
  • Antonyms: calmly, collectedly, composedly,imperturbably, peacefully, placidly, self-composedly, self-possessedly, serenely, unconcernedly
  • Usage: The veterinarian ran frantically from room to room looking for the escaped hamster.


9. Melee: (noun) 

  • Meaning: a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people
  • Synonyms: brawl, donnybrook, fracas, fray, free-for-all, rough-and-tumble, row, ruckus
  • Usage: A verbal disagreement at the football game soon turned into a general melee involving scores of spectators.


10. Toil: (noun)

  • Meaning: very hard or unpleasant work
  • Synonyms: drudgery, grind, labor, slavery, sweat, travail
  • Antonyms: fun, play
  • Usage: After years of toil in a sweatshop, Kim was finally able to start her own business.
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