Difficult IELTS Words - Group 3

a. questionable; filled with doubt

v. make a succession of slight sharp snapping noises; show liveliness, energy, or intensity

n. pouring or streaming downwards, especially a heavy or continuous shower

n. disadvantage or inconvenience; shortcoming; refund or remittance, such as a discount on duties or taxes

v. destroy courage or resolution by exciting dread; cause to lose enthusiasm

v. form, plan, or arrange in the mind; transmit or give by will

v. fall apart; fold or collapse; crush together or press into wrinkles

a. highly critical; causing or capable of causing complete destruction

v. reach the highest or most decisive point; rise to summit

n. person of very small size; an animal or a plant much below the ordinary size of its species; star of relatively small size

n. emptying accomplished by draining; gradual flowing off, as of a liquid

a. highly critical; causing or capable of causing complete destruction

n. course; program

v. consume; eat greedily; destroy completely

v. reduce from an inflated condition; release contained air or gas from

n. emptying accomplished by draining; gradual flowing off, as of a liquid

v. delay till later; put off; hold back to a later time

v. fall apart; fold or collapse; crush together or press into wrinkles

v. remove or force out from a position or dwelling previously occupied

v. deduct or subtract from a cost or price; regard with doubt or disbelief

n. loud, confused, harsh noise; loud, continuous, rattling or clanging sound

v. weaken; make thinner or less concentrated by adding a liquid such as water

v. decree or designate beforehand; fate

n. science of the relationships between organisms and their environments

v. delay till later; put off; hold back to a later time

n. loud, confused, harsh noise; loud, continuous, rattling or clanging sound

a. highly critical; causing or capable of causing complete destruction

v. reduce from an inflated condition; release contained air or gas from

v. consume; eat greedily; destroy completely

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

a. in disrepair, run down; of very poor quality or condition

v. destroy courage or resolution by exciting dread; cause to lose enthusiasm

n. length of straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference

a. highly critical; causing or capable of causing complete destruction

v. fall apart; fold or collapse; crush together or press into wrinkles

v. deduct or subtract from a cost or price; regard with doubt or disbelief

v. form, plan, or arrange in the mind; transmit or give by will

ad. free from fear or suspicion; very probably, in all likelihood; doubtlessly

n. strong disrelish or distaste; aversion to the taste of food or drink

n. testimony under oath