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IELTS Vocab
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Subjects
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ielts
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The education and care that you are given as a child - and the way it affects your later development and attitudes
nurture
tegen
prosecute
bully (v)
2. To explain something that is difficult to understand
elucidate
beneficiary
unprecedented
so as
3. Be successfull - have good fortune
ariff
robust
prosper
hazy
4. Request - appeal
nocturnal
scorn
plea
pioneer
5. Someone usually a child who studies very hard
crumble
obstacle
swiftly
swot (n)
6. Fit
scorn
fugitive
ppropriate
pessimistic
7. Handle or treat skillfully
manipulate
vocation
ignite
jockey (n)
8. Smell
disregard
pupil
odour
ingenious
9. Win over to do or believe -convince
persuade
reform
aviation
hantom
10. Done deliberately and usually intended to cause harm
assess (v)
mountebank
intentional
consent
11. Easily broken - delicate
fragile
enounce
follow on (to/from)
undernourished
12. Remove - omit
consider
jockey (n)
eliminate
descend
13. Job or profession
roam
versus
implement
vocation
14. Law -rule
penalize
recall
fugitive
onstitution
15. To remember
precedence
assemble
recall
neutral
16. Thankful
grateful
pledge
beckon
qualitative
17. To explain the meaning of something
interpret
transmit
deteriorate
toil
18. To become worse
deteriorate
starvation
greedy
bully (n)
19. Illness
disorder
device
culprit
devour
20. Long and thin
revision of
merit
slender
paternal
21. Be destroyed - die
obedience + to
slender
valiant
perish
22. Person who receives benefit
beneficiary
undeniable
valid
comprehend
23. A plan or trick to make something happen
qualified
contrivance
commend
sinister
24. Unclear - not certain
pastime
ambiguity
stiff
juvenile
25. Vary
awesome
excessive
merchandise
alter
26. Praise
acknowledge
mourn
vacate
commend
27. Not planned or expected
mutate
casual
rudimentary
fugitive
28. Something that you do regularly and in the same way each time [↪ routine]
pioneer
recall
ritual
sustain
29. Clever - having new ideas
paternal
opt
innovative
horrid
30. To hit or knock hard against sth
assess (v)
trifle
penetrate
strike
31. Irony - satire
vocation
sarcasm
forage for food
delinquent
32. A tax on goods coming into a country or going out of a country
ariff
detest
maim
stiff
33. Light and quick
revise
bully (v)
sneer
nimble
34. Great - enormous
vast
implement
assess (v)
superiority
35. A very bad situation that someone is in
heal
plight (of)
absurd
eliminate
36. Forbid by law or authority
partial
nocturnal
prohibit
vocation
37. Get up on
maim
inquiry
mount
dispute
38. Typical of the way a good mother behaves or feels
maternal
incentive
accurate
dash
39. Not real - but seeming real
dash
hantom
juror
impaired
40. Quick to notice - watchful
undertake
stumble
observant
temperate
41. Find out
measure
famine
venue
detect
42. Completely unexpected - and often very lucky
miraculous
recall
commence
pastime
43. Clothes
deteriorate
apparel
reform
neutral
44. Be too hard to understand or solve
mosquito
apparel
baffle
regulation
45. Someone who rides horses in races
jockey (n)
subside
ppropriate
sarcasm
46. Having suitable knowledge - experience - or skills - especially for a particular job
probe
qualified
lessen (v)
contrivance
47. A chemical or food that provides what is needed for plants or animals to live and grow
indigenous
nocturnal
nutrient
menace
48. Supported by law or authority
descend
valid
pauper
pastime
49. Hug
inuit
cuddle
cease
warden
50. Sharp points sticking out
dweller
decree
jagged
obstacle