Difficult IELTS Words - Group 2

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calamity  Speak Example sentences
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ordinary; having no remarkable features
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event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress, or severe affliction; disaster; misery
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a stream or sequence of something, a waterfall
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give certain information to; assure; make certain
canny  Speak Example sentences
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tunnel; hole in the ground made by an animal for shelter; dig; move through by or as by digging
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make solid; unite or press together into a compact mass; harden or make dense and firm
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careful; pleasant; shrewd
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simultaneous; coincident; occurring or operating at the same time
capsule  Speak Example sentences
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bestow; present; have a conference in order to talk something over
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small container; spacecraft to transport people in outer space
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brief and compact; expressing much in few words
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cause to curve outward; swell up; stick out; protrude
cascade  Speak Example sentences
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grow forth; send out buds; grow or develop rapidly
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event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress, or severe affliction; disaster; misery
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a stream or sequence of something, a waterfall
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relating to a 100-year period; occurring once every 100 years
catastrophe  Speak Example sentences
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confront; oppose
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include; consist of; be composed of
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confront with questions; prepare or position so as to be ready for impact or danger
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great, often sudden calamity; complete failure; sudden violent change in the earth's surface
certify  Speak Example sentences
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give certain information to; assure; make certain
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cause to curve outward; swell up; stick out; protrude
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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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careful; pleasant; shrewd
cessation  Speak Example sentences
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dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food
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grow forth; send out buds; grow or develop rapidly
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a stopping or discontinuance of action
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tunnel; hole in the ground made by an animal for shelter; dig; move through by or as by digging
chronological  Speak Example sentences
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fastening device; firm grip
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give certain information to; assure; make certain
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arranged in order of time of occurrence
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in the direction that the hands of a clock move
clockwise  Speak Example sentences
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brief and compact; expressing much in few words
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in the direction that the hands of a clock move
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opinion or position reached by a group as a whole; general agreement or concord
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similar or equivalent; being of equal regard; worthy to be ranked with
cognition  Speak Example sentences
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great, often sudden calamity; complete failure; sudden violent change in the earth's surface
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boundary line of a circle, figure, area, or object
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the process of knowing
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arranged in order of time of occurrence