Synonyms & Antonyms for IELTS Writing with Answers (Part 1)

Practicing “Synonym and Antonym” exercises daily will help you prepare well for the IELTS Writing section and increase your IELTS vocabulary and refine your knowledge of words. Let’s set your time and start learning now.

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One of the important ways to get a high band score for IELTS exam is to focus on the synonyms and Antonyms of the difficult words so that you can explain the topic given in a better way.

Synonyms

Synonyms are the words that give the meaning of the particular word or which is the same as the word given or a better word for the given word. if you know the synonyms you can also improve your vocabulary.

Which of these words is closest in meaning to the word provided?

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Answer Key

1. b. remote means faraway, or distant
2. b. to detest means to feel intense or violent dislike, or to hate
3. c. gracious means to be pleasant or considerate in social interactions
4. a. to predict means to declare in advance or to foretell
5. d. kin means people with common ancestors, or relatives
6. c. pensive means moodily or dreamily thoughtful
7. a. to banish means to drive out from home or country, or to exile
8. c. a fraud is someone who is not what he or she pretends to be, or an imposter
9. b. saccharine means overly sweet
10. d. to drag is to pull, or to cause movement in a direction with applied force
11. b. jovial means good-humored or merry
12. a. to be indifferent is to be marked by impartiality or to be neutral
13. b. to simulate is to assume the outward appearance of, or to imitate
14. c. charisma is magnetic charm or appeal
15. a. to apportion is to divide and share out
16. a. generic means having the characteristic of a whole group, or general
17. d. a qualm is a feeling of uneasiness about a moral issue, or a scrupled. wary means to be attentive especially to danger, or to be cautious
18. c. to distort means to twist out of a normal state, or to deform
19. d. sumptuous means excessively costly, rich, or luxurious
20. a. one meaning of reel is to move around and round or to whirl
21. b. inscrutable means not easily interpreted or understood, or mysterious
22. c. to appall is to overcome with shock, or to dismay
23. a. upright can mean either honorable or vertical; horizontal and supine are both antonyms of upright
24. c. a reverie means the state of being lost in thought or a daydream
25. c. loot means goods seized in war or spoils
26. a. loquacious means excessively talkative, or garrulous
27. c. a chimera is a fabrication of the mind, or an illusion
28. a. temerity means unreasonable contempt for danger or recklessness, or audacity
29. b. to reduce means to develop something potential or latent; to elicit means to draw out something hidden or latent
30. a. a nabob is a person of great wealth or importance, or a bigwig
31. b. to pall can mean to deprive of pleasure in something by satiating
32. d. sacrosanct means the most sacred, or holy
33. d. louche means not reputable, or indecent
34. c. stentorian means loud and is usually used to imply a voice of great power and range

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