Difficult IELTS Words - Group 3

Stories of USA Today
Materials for Reading & Listening Practice
 Difficult IELTS Words - Group 3View Group Words   
curtail  Speak Example sentences
1
Exercise
scarcity; shortage of food; famine from failure or loss of crops
Exercise
cut short or reduce; cut off end or tail, or any part
Exercise
ruin; lay waste; destroy; make desolate
Exercise
destine to an unhappy end
cut short  Speak Example sentences
2
Exercise
reduce from an inflated condition; release contained air or gas from
Exercise
analyze; examine; identify
Exercise
make shorter by cutting; interrupt and curtail before the planned end time
Exercise
seriousness; reality; fixed determination; eagerness; intentness
deduct  Speak Example sentences
3
Exercise
vocabulary that is for a specific group of people
Exercise
coin of the United States or Canada worth ten cents
Exercise
unclose; open; remove a cover or envelope from; lay open or expose to view
Exercise
lead forth or out; take away, separate, or remove, in numbering, estimating, or calculating; subtract
defile  Speak Example sentences
4
Exercise
make shorter by cutting; interrupt and curtail before the planned end time
Exercise
graph; chart; figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement; plan
Exercise
pollute; make dirty or spotty
Exercise
decrease fullness of; use up or empty out
deft  Speak Example sentences
5
Exercise
vocabulary that is for a specific group of people
Exercise
quick and skillful; neat in action or performance
Exercise
keep back or from; withhold; restrain from proceeding; stay or stop; delay
Exercise
throw into disorder; break the array of.
delinquency  Speak Example sentences
6
Exercise
refusal to yield; readiness to contend or resist
Exercise
failure or omission of duty; fault; misdeed; offense or crime
Exercise
science of the relationships between organisms and their environments
Exercise
graph; chart; figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement; plan
demolish  Speak Example sentences
7
Exercise
raze; destroy; do away with completely; put an end to
Exercise
seriousness; reality; fixed determination; eagerness; intentness
Exercise
deceive mind or judgment of; lead from truth or into error; frustrate or disappoint
Exercise
increasing by successive addition
desolate  Speak Example sentences
8
Exercise
keep back or from; withhold; restrain from proceeding; stay or stop; delay
Exercise
lower in spirits; press down
Exercise
unpopulated; providing no shelter or sustenance; devoid of inhabitants
Exercise
make shorter by cutting; interrupt and curtail before the planned end time
detrimental  Speak Example sentences
9
Exercise
ornamental tuft or ridge on the head of animal; plume used as decoration on top of helmet; top, as of a hill or wave
Exercise
dwindle; reduce; make smaller or less or to cause to appear so
Exercise
causing damage or harm; injurious
Exercise
make a clear distinction; distinguish; make sensible decisions; judge wisely
diagnose  Speak Example sentences
10
Exercise
decrease fullness of; use up or empty out
Exercise
make a clear distinction; distinguish; make sensible decisions; judge wisely
Exercise
sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; slumber; be heavy with sleepiness; doze.
Exercise
analyze; examine; identify