Difficult IELTS Words - Group 5

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fortnight  Speak Example sentences
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search blindly or uncertainly; reach about uncertainly; feel one's way
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resist and fight to a standoff
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urge with a long pointed stick; give heart or courage to
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a period of fourteen consecutive days
fossil  Speak Example sentences
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something given freely or without recompense; free gift; a present
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remnant or trace of an organism of a past geologic age embedded and preserved in the earth crust.
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expression whose meaning differs from meanings of its individual words; distinctive style
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hang about; wait nearby; remain floating
fulfil  Speak Example sentences
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very thin, especially from disease or hunger or cold; barren
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fill full; fill to the utmost capacity, as a vessel, a room; make full or complete
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urge with a long pointed stick; give heart or courage to
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enhance; hoist; raise or increase the quantity or degree of; intensify
gape  Speak Example sentences
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cultivation of plants
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injure or hurt; become worse; affect negatively
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given, considering
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open the mouth wide; yawn from sleepiness, weariness, or dullness
geology  Speak Example sentences
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science which treats the structure and mineral constitution of the globe
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chart; a drawing illustrating the relations
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stubbornly and often recklessly willful; unyielding
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a period of fourteen consecutive days
glimpse  Speak Example sentences
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proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive
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stubbornly and often recklessly willful; unyielding
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a short, hurried view
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search blindly or uncertainly; reach about uncertainly; feel one's way
gradual  Speak Example sentences
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great destruction resulting in the extensive loss of life, especially by fire; massive slaughter
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a short, hurried view
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proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive
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cultivation of plants
hold off  Speak Example sentences
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obstacle or difficulty to be overcome; movable frame made of interlaced twigs or sticks, or of bars or narrow boards, crossing each other
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association of people belonging to the same class, or engaged in kindred pursuits; business corporation
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resist and fight to a standoff
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given, considering
homogeneous  Speak Example sentences
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resist and fight to a standoff
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of the same or similar nature or kind
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given, considering
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deduce; conclude from evidence or premises; lead to as a consequence or conclusion
iconic  Speak Example sentences
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a period of fourteen consecutive days
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of or pertaining to a portrait or likeness or to portraiture; of the nature of a portrait
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great destruction resulting in the extensive loss of life, especially by fire; massive slaughter
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science which treats the structure and mineral constitution of the globe