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IELTS Vocab
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Subjects
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ielts
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english
,
vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Doing or using something too much or more than is necessary
extravagant
beckon
contrivance
aggravate
2. Hobby
seclusion
horrid
incentive
pastime
3. Arrive
show up
stumble
anticipate
rash
4. Help that is provided for poor people
advocate
mountebank
welfare
perish
5. To remain alive or continue to exist for a long time
endure
pursue
wretched
forage for food
6. To succeed in learning information that is hidden - or that someone does not want to tell you
ease something ↔ out
blunder
superficial
incentive
7. Ignore
disregard
predict
awesome
trout
8. Measures taken beforehand -foresight
revive
disclose
precaution
wretched
9. Priority
juvenile
reservation
precedence
stumble
10. Coarse and savage
homicide
venture
clown
brutal
11. Too much
dispute
relieve
excessive
baffle
12. Ability to say the right thing
vain
fortunate
tact
compensate
13. As much as is needed
revision of
bully (v)
adequate
detest
14. A difficult choice
interpret
dilemma
degenerated
bigamy
15. Give up - abandon
utter
incentive
surrender
apparel
16. Make free from - freed from
chills
exempt +from
miser
inquiry
17. A large noisy crowd
executive (n)
shrewd
mountebank
mob
18. To prevent someone from having something
fortify
deprive
overstate
lessen (v)
19. Send over - pass on
peripheral
transmit
expel (v)
perceive
20. Swear - curse
fragile
oath
pupil
undeniable
21. Stop
cease
stiff
precaution
undernourished
22. The subjects that are taught by a school - college etc
curriculum
qualitative
tegen
measure
23. Relating to the earth
terrestrial
detour
tact
solemn
24. To work very hard for a long period of time
surpass
toil
ban
squeeze
25. To gradually take more of someone's time - possessions - rights etc than you should
sarcasm
consider
encroach
evolution
26. Tell beforehand
evade
predict
monarch
toil
27. Maintain - to make sth continue to exist for a long time
exhaust
elucidate
evade
sustain
28. Behaviour
regulation
lopsided
sustain
conduct
29. Put an end to
sustain
miserly
attentive
abolish
30. A strong substance that can bend - which is around the joints in your body and in your outer ear
cartilage
anticipate
warden
utilize
31. To become worse
deteriorate
fervor
crucial
ambush
32. [≠optimistic]
intentional
expel (v)
vast
pessimistic
33. Ceremony of marriage
jockey (n)
matrimony
heedless
ranch
34. Very tired
tire out
jagged
uneasy
eliminate
35. Small group
be taken aback (by something)
priority
delegate (n)
squad
36. To examine someone or something very carefully
dash
observant
scrutinize
oath
37. Headless - careless
salute
replicate
miser
reckless
38. To explain something
surrender
elucidate
pupil
scrutinize
39. Produce exact copy
robust
replicate
measure
delinquency
40. Comparing
pioneer
odour
crafty
versus
41. Active strenghth or force
alter
vigor
delegate (v)
ariff
42. To buy something or spend money or time on something - because it will be useful for you
invest in
ranch
exempt from
disregard
43. Be successfull - have good fortune
endeavour
tegen
apparel
prosper
44. Blunder (while speaking) - make a mistake
ppropriate
ambiguity
stumble
deceive
45. Restless - anxious
attorney
thrust
retreat
uneasy
46. A runaway
fugitive
reckless
expertise
cease
47. Reckless
greedy
cargo
revision of
heedless
48. If something unpleasant or dangerous befalls you - it happens to you
befall
menace
opt
deprive
49. Follow - proceed along
pursue
ambition
calamity
scrutinize
50. A question you ask in order to get information
ease something ↔ out
apparel
squad
inquiry