Must know words in ielts academic and general module. People, Character, Psychology, Communication, Family.

Appearance

attractive, good-looking, beautiful, handsome, lovely, pretty, cute, nice;

pretty; beautiful; handsome; good-looking;

plain, homely (=not good-looking; AmE), unattractive, ugly; an ugly fellow;

a pretty (beautiful, ugly, intelligent, round, oval) face; regular features;

delicate features;

well-dressed; nicely dressed; casually dressed; poorly dressed; elegant;

fashionable;

neat, clean, tidy; untidy, dirty, filthy; a neat person;

Height

tall, very tall, quite tall; six feet tall; not very tall; short;

average height; medium height; middle height;

Weight and Build

thin, quite thin, slim, slender; skinny, underweight;

plump, chubby, stout, overweight, obese, fat;

medium-build; heavily built; thickset; broad-shouldered;

delicate; delicate constitution;

strong, muscular, athletic; weak, feeble.

Hair

dark, black, brown, chestnut, red, auburn; blond, light, fair; white, gray

(grey);

a brunette, a brunet; a redhead; a blonde, a blond; a dark-haired; corn-

colored;

long, short; medium-length; shoulder-length; long dark-blond;

straight, curly, wavy; thick, thinning, bald; curly; bald;

shiny, smooth, neatly combed; soft, silken; lank; dull; oily; greasy;

tousled; disheveled; plaits, ponytail; beard, mustache (moustache).

Eyes

blue, gray (grey), green, brown, dark;

light-blue; dark-gray; grayish-blue;

big eyes; large eyes; bright eyes; expressive eyes; sharp eyes;

eyebrows, eyelashes; thick eyebrows; green eyes with dark lashes;

nearsighted, shortsighted (near-sighted, short-sighted); blind;

eyeglasses, glasses, spectacles, sunglasses; a pair of glasses

Age

young, middle-aged, elderly, old; grown-up, adult;

he is twenty years old; she is in her thirties; he is about forty;

a child; a kid; a little boy; a little girl; a five-year-old girl; she is five years

old;

a teenager; a teenage boy; a teenage girl; a young boy; a young girl;

Character

Character, personality, nature

good (excellent, fine, strong, firm, weak, bad, terrible, evil) character;

traits of character; qualities; he has a terrible character; his character is

very good;

a woman of great character; a man of character; he has no character at all;

pleasant (friendly, strong, weak, interesting, charismatic) personality;

she is soft-hearted by nature; it is not in his nature to be rude.

Other qualities

pretentious, self-important, vain, pompous; domineering, oppressive; 

unpretentious;

capricious, wayward, whimsical; mischievous; argumentative, irritable, 

quarrelsome;

critical, exacting, fault-finding; pedantic; docile, dutiful, obedient; 

disobedient;

talkative; glib; noisy; reserved, reticent; laconic; taciturn; silent; secretive;

economical, thrifty, frugal, tight, stingy, miserly, greedy; wasteful, prodigal, 

extravagant;

strange, odd, weird, eccentric, crazy; normal, ordinary, regular.

Mind

intelligent, wise, clever, smart; sharp, keen, bright, quick, agile;

broad-minded; open-minded; narrow-minded; small-minded; absent-

minded;

a sharp mind; a quick mind; 

foolish, silly, stupid, dumb; dull, slow; crazy, insane, mad; 

Other related words

Note: Some of the words below are informal or slang words; some of them 

may be perceived as offensive.

a bookworm; a history buff; a sports fan; a music fan; a movie fan; a TV 

addict;

a computer whiz kid; a computer freak; a number-cruncher;

a fashion plate; a dandy; a fashionmonger; a warmonger; a newsmonger; a 

scaremonger;

a junk collector; a pack rat; a miser; a squanderer; a spendthrift; a 

spender;

a homebody; a couch potato; lazybones; a workaholic; a Jack of all trades;

an adventurer; a thrill seeker; an oddball; a weirdo; a chatterbox;

 a scatterbrain; a teaser;

a prude; a hypocrite; a chronic liar; a gambler; a smooth operator; a city 

slicker; a simpleton;

a superachiever; an underachiever; a winner; a loser; a tough guy; a softy;

a woman-chaser; a womanizer; a ladies' man (a lady's man);

a black sheep; a scapegoat; a scarecrow; a white crow; a night owl.

Weight

1 pound (lb.) = 0.4536 kilograms (kg)

He weighs 170 pounds. (Read as "one hundred and seventy pounds" or "one 

hundred seventy pounds".)

Height

1 inch (in.) = 2.54 centimeters (cm)

1 foot (ft.) = 12 in. = 30.48 cm = 0.3048 m

He is six feet tall. He is 183 centimeters tall. (one hundred eighty-three 

centimeters)

She is 160 centimeters tall. (one hundred sixty centimeters)

Her 12-year-old son is about 5 feet tall and weighs about 88 pounds. 

(eighty-eight pounds)