Difficult IELTS Words - Group 2

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n. dividing line; border; frontier

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v. refrain from buying or using

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v. confront with questions; prepare or position so as to be ready for impact or danger

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n. characteristic of being brash; trait of being rash and hasty; tasteless showiness

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n. an opening or tear; breaking of waves; a gap or rift

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a. marked by speed, liveliness, and vigor; energetic; swift; keen or sharp in speech or manner

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v. graze; skim or glance at casually

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n. short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience

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v. cause to curve outward; swell up; stick out; protrude

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n. someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence

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n. small house or cottage usually having a single story and attic

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a. able to float; cheerful and optimistic

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n. over-regulated administrative system

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v. grow forth; send out buds; grow or develop rapidly

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n. tunnel; hole in the ground made by an animal for shelter; dig; move through by or as by digging

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v. move or cause to move energetically and busily; teem

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v. to avoid by using an alternative channel or route

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n. event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress, or severe affliction; disaster; misery

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n. silvery, moderately hard metallic element

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n. unit of heat; unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree

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a. careful; pleasant; shrewd

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n. vessel used by soldiers for carrying water, liquor, or other drink; snack bar or small cafeteria, as on a military installation

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n. small container; spacecraft to transport people in outer space

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n. title; chapter heading; text under illustration

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n. dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food

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n. a stream or sequence of something, a waterfall

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v. throw something, especially light; throw with force; hurl

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v. to creat or add to a systematic and complete list of item

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n. agent which brings about chemical change while it remains unaffected and unchanged

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n. great, often sudden calamity; complete failure; sudden violent change in the earth's surface

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a. capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or eating away by chemical action

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n. overseer of morals; official responsible for removal of objectionable or sensitive content

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a. relating to a 100-year period; occurring once every 100 years

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a. of or pertaining to pottery; relating to the art of making earthenware; as, ceramic products; ceramic ornaments for ceilings.

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n. document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts; confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence

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v. give certain information to; assure; make certain

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n. a stopping or discontinuance of action

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n. room in a house, especially a bedroom; hall for the meetings of a legislative or other assembly; enclosed space

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v. distinguish; be characteristic of; be a distinctive trait or mark of

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n. accusation, a claim of wrongdoing

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n. deep opening in the earth surface

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a. morally pure in thought or conduct; decent and modest

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n. a person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class

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a. deeply loved or highly valued

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a. causing mild fear

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v. practice trickery or fraud; cheat

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n. a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee

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a. arranged in order of time of occurrence

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v. move around, as from person to person or place to place

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n. boundary line of a circle, figure, area, or object

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v. quote; adduce as an instance

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n. fastening device; firm grip

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v. declare unavailable, as for security reasons; arrange or order by classes or categories

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a. involving direct observation of a patient

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ad. in the direction that the hands of a clock move

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n. group; bunch; group of the same or similar elements gathered or occurring closely

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a. rough; harsh; of low, common, or inferior quality

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v. persuade or try to persuade by pleading or flattery

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n. a defendant who has been joined together with one or more other defendants in a single action

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a. relating to an education system in which both men and women attend

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n. system of education in which both men and women attend the same institution or classes

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n. the process of knowing

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a. knowing or perceiving; part of mental functions that deals with logic

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a. adhesive; cohesive; sticking together ; logical; sound; capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner

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n. a series of connected spirals or concentric rings formed by gathering or winding; spiral pipe or series of spiral pipes

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v. occur at the same time as; correspond

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n. act of working together; act of cooperating with an enemy, especially it occupying one's own country

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v. bump; hit; conflict

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n. accelerator in which two beams of particles are forced to collide head on

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a. capable of igniting and burning; easily aroused or excited

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v. honor the memory of with a ceremony; serve as a memorial to

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v. commit, entrust, or give in charge for care or preservation; recommend as worthy of confidence or regard

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n. goods; article of trade; advantage; benefit.

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a. ordinary; having no remarkable features

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v. obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; travel regularly from a place of residence to another place

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n. someone who travels regularly from home in a suburb to work in a city

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a. similar or equivalent; being of equal regard; worthy to be ranked with

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n. person from one's own country; colleague; somebody from one's own country; a fellow-countryman

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v. force; coerce; necessitate or pressure by force

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v. serve as or provide a substitute or counterbalance

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v. seek or strive for the same thing for which another is striving; contend in rivalry, as for a prize or in business

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n. quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually

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v. put together or compose from materials gathered from several sources

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v. complete; consummate; make perfect

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n. readiness to yield; happy friendly agreement

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v. write; create; make or create by putting together parts or elements

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a. made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded

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v. close; squeeze or press together; contract

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v. include; consist of; be composed of

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a. mandatory; obligatory; required by rule

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v. reckon; make mathematical calculation

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a. planned or accomplished together; combined

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a. brief and compact; expressing much in few words

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v. digest; convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition.

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a. simultaneous; coincident; occurring or operating at the same time

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v. express strong disapproval of; judge or declare to be unfit for use

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v. change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; compress or concentrate

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n. expression of sympathy with another in sorrow or grief.

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v. bestow; present; have a conference in order to talk something over

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v. disclose private matters in confidence; give as a responsibility or put into another's care

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n. arrangement of parts or elements; outline

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v. restrict in movement; circumscribe

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v. comply with; follow; fit; meet

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n. act of gathering or heaping together or forming a mass

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a. possessing congruity; suitable; agreeing; corresponding

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v. summon a devil or spirit by magical or supernatural power

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n. awareness of moral or ethical aspects to one's conduct, together with the urge to prefer right over wrong

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a. diligent; responsible; reliable

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a. having an awareness of one's environment and one's own existence, sensations, and thoughts

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a. following one after another without interruption; sequential

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n. opinion or position reached by a group as a whole; general agreement or concord

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a. resulting; following as a logical conclusion

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n. preservation or restoration from loss, damage, or neglect

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n. greenhouse; school of music or dramatic art

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v. retain; protect from loss or harm; preserve; use carefully or sparingly, avoiding waste

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v. give, transfer, or deliver in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another

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v. be made up or composed; be comprised or contained in

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v. make solid; unite or press together into a compact mass; harden or make dense and firm

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a. noticeable; prominent; easy to notice; obvious

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n. component or part; citizen, voter

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v. make up; form something

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v. restrain; keep within close bounds; confine

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v. restrict; shrink; make smaller or narrower by binding or squeezing

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v. form by assembling or combining parts; build; create

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v. make impure or unclean by contact or mixture; pollute; defile

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v. look at attentively and thoughtfully; observe deep in thought

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v. strive in opposition or against difficulties; struggle; compete, as in a race

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n. competing as for profit or prize

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n. property of a continuous and connected period of time

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v. confront; oppose

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n. assertion of contrary; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; opposition, whether by argument or conduct

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v. form by an exercise of ingenuity; devise; invent; design

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v. cause to come together formally

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v. approach; tend to meet; come together

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v. chat; talk informally; engage in a spoken exchange of thoughts

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ad. in a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally.

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v. develop, or take place; prepare food for eating by applying heat

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v. relate; associate; bring into a mutual relation

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v. be compatible, similar or consistent; exchange messages

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n. similarity or analogy; communication by the exchange of letters

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a. one who communicates information, especially, by letter or telegram to newspaper or periodical

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a. accompanying

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v. destroy metal or alloy gradually, especially by chemical action; be eaten or worn away

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a. pertaining to the outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain

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a. sophisticated; of worldwide scope

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n. padded or knitted covering placed especially over a teapot to keep the tea hot; cozy

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v. act as force or influence that balances, checks or limits an opposite one

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n. duplicate copy; analogue; one that closely resembles another

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n. two similar things; a pair; in poetry, a pair of lines with rhyming end words