Difficult IELTS Words - Group 3

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v. bend down; stoop low; lie close to the ground with the legs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear

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a. increasing by successive addition

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n. scarcity; shortage of food; famine from failure or loss of crops

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v. to turn aside, to deviate

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v. deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device

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a. delightful; delicious; extremely pleasing to the sense of taste

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n. act of emptying, reducing, or exhausting

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a. unpopulated; providing no shelter or sustenance; devoid of inhabitants

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v. ruin; lay waste; destroy; make desolate

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v. spread out widely; scatter freely; pour out and cause to spread freely