Difficult IELTS Words - Group 2
Match Quiz
| Difficult IELTS Words - Group 2 | View Group Words |
brisk 
1
 | a. causing mild fear |
| v. develop, or take place; prepare food for eating by applying heat |
| a. marked by speed, liveliness, and vigor; energetic; swift; keen or sharp in speech or manner |
| n. someone who travels regularly from home in a suburb to work in a city |
buoyant
2
| v. to avoid by using an alternative channel or route |
| a. able to float; cheerful and optimistic |
| v. give, transfer, or deliver in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another |
| n. someone who travels regularly from home in a suburb to work in a city |
bustle
3
| v. move or cause to move energetically and busily; teem |
| n. act of gathering or heaping together or forming a mass |
| a. causing mild fear |
| a. brief and compact; expressing much in few words |
calamity
4
| a. following one after another without interruption; sequential |
| n. event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress, or severe affliction; disaster; misery |
| v. destroy metal or alloy gradually, especially by chemical action; be eaten or worn away |
| v. form by assembling or combining parts; build; create |
carcass
5
| v. move or cause to move energetically and busily; teem |
| v. restrain; keep within close bounds; confine |
| n. dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food |
| n. agent which brings about chemical change while it remains unaffected and unchanged |
catalyst
6
| n. padded or knitted covering placed especially over a teapot to keep the tea hot; cozy |
| n. someone who travels regularly from home in a suburb to work in a city |
| n. agent which brings about chemical change while it remains unaffected and unchanged |
| v. reckon; make mathematical calculation |
coincide
7
| v. occur at the same time as; correspond |
| a. accompanying |
| a. causing mild fear |
| a. relating to an education system in which both men and women attend |
commemorate
8
| v. restrict; shrink; make smaller or narrower by binding or squeezing |
| v. destroy metal or alloy gradually, especially by chemical action; be eaten or worn away |
| v. look at attentively and thoughtfully; observe deep in thought |
| v. honor the memory of with a ceremony; serve as a memorial to |
commuter
9
| n. someone who travels regularly from home in a suburb to work in a city |
| n. agent which brings about chemical change while it remains unaffected and unchanged |
| n. padded or knitted covering placed especially over a teapot to keep the tea hot; cozy |
| v. develop, or take place; prepare food for eating by applying heat |
compensate
10
| a. marked by speed, liveliness, and vigor; energetic; swift; keen or sharp in speech or manner |
| v. serve as or provide a substitute or counterbalance |
| n. someone who travels regularly from home in a suburb to work in a city |
| a. knowing or perceiving; part of mental functions that deals with logic |