Difficult IELTS Words - Group 2

n. dividing line; border; frontier

v. refrain from buying or using

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

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

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

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

v. graze; skim or glance at casually

n. short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience

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

n. someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence

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

a. able to float; cheerful and optimistic

n. over-regulated administrative system

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

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

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

v. to avoid by using an alternative channel or route

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

n. silvery, moderately hard metallic element

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

a. careful; pleasant; shrewd

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

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

n. title; chapter heading; text under illustration

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

n. a stream or sequence of something, a waterfall

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

v. give certain information to; assure; make certain

n. a stopping or discontinuance of action

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

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

n. accusation, a claim of wrongdoing

n. deep opening in the earth surface

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

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

a. deeply loved or highly valued

a. causing mild fear

v. practice trickery or fraud; cheat

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

a. arranged in order of time of occurrence

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

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

v. quote; adduce as an instance

n. fastening device; firm grip

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

a. involving direct observation of a patient

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

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

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

v. persuade or try to persuade by pleading or flattery

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

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

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

n. the process of knowing

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

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

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

v. occur at the same time as; correspond

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

v. bump; hit; conflict

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

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

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

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

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

a. ordinary; having no remarkable features

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

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

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

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

v. force; coerce; necessitate or pressure by force

v. serve as or provide a substitute or counterbalance

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

v. seek or strive for the same thing as another; enter into competition or rivalry

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

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

v. complete; consummate; make perfect

n. readiness to yield; happy friendly agreement

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

a. made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded

v. close; squeeze or press together; contract

v. include; consist of; be composed of

a. mandatory; obligatory; required by rule

v. reckon; make mathematical calculation

a. planned or accomplished together; combined

a. brief and compact; expressing much in few words

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

n. arrangement of parts or elements; outline

v. restrict in movement; circumscribe

v. comply with; follow; fit; meet

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

a. possessing congruity; suitable; agreeing; corresponding

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

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

a. diligent; responsible; reliable

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

a. following one after another without interruption; sequential

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

a. resulting; following as a logical conclusion

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

n. greenhouse; school of music or dramatic art

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

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

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

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

a. noticeable; prominent; easy to notice; obvious

n. component or part; citizen, voter

v. make up; form something

v. restrain; keep within close bounds; confine

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

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

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

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

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

n. competing as for profit or prize

n. property of a continuous and connected period of time

v. confront; oppose

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

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

v. cause to come together formally

v. approach; tend to meet; come together

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

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

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

v. relate; associate; bring into a mutual relation

v. be compatible, similar or consistent; exchange messages

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

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

a. accompanying

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

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

a. sophisticated; of worldwide scope

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

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

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

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