Difficult IELTS Words - Group 3

v. view with scorn or contempt; feel with aversion

v. ruin; lay waste; destroy; make desolate

n. succession of rulers from the same family or line

a. increasing by successive addition

n. great flood; heavy downpour; any overflowing of water

n. lack of consistency; difference

v. lead forth; reach a conclusion by reasoning; trace the origin or derivation of

n. a bowl-shaped opening at the top of a volcano

n. setting or marking of boundaries or limits

n. judgment day; day of the last judgment; day of death

v. raze; destroy; do away with completely; put an end to

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

v. decree or designate beforehand; fate

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

v. monopolize; command; rule; prevail; be prevalent in

v. lead forth; reach a conclusion by reasoning; trace the origin or derivation of

n. great flood; heavy downpour; any overflowing of water

v. dwindle; reduce; make smaller or less or to cause to appear so

v. unclose; open; remove a cover or envelope from; lay open or expose to view

v. become worse; decline

n. electronic device that restricts current flow chiefly to one direction; semiconductor that consists of a p-n junction

v. lower in spirits; press down

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

v. swell out or expand from or as if from internal pressure

n. setting or marking of boundaries or limits

v. lead forth; reach a conclusion by reasoning; trace the origin or derivation of

v. monopolize; command; rule; prevail; be prevalent in

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

a. increasing by successive addition

v. make wider or larger; cause to expand; enlarge; widen

v. lead forth; reach a conclusion by reasoning; trace the origin or derivation of

v. analyze; examine; identify

v. sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; slumber; be heavy with sleepiness; doze.

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

a. causing disrupt or unrest; characterized by unrest or disorder

v. unclose; open; remove a cover or envelope from; lay open or expose to view

n. setting or marking of boundaries or limits

n. lack of consistency; difference

a. questionable; filled with doubt

a. adequate, meeting accepted standards