Difficult IELTS Words - Group 5

n. place or building where athletic exercises are performed; a school for gymnastics

n. particular skill; special talent

v. travel by getting free rides from passing vehicles; be carried along with something else

n. dim or intermittent flicker or flash of light; faint glow; shimmer

n. a short, hurried view

n. passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; iron chimney of a steamship or the like

n. one who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there; non-native

n. particular skill; special talent

v. utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds

n. something given freely or without recompense; free gift; a present

n. narrow passage; particularly, a narrow channel of water

n. one who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there; non-native

n. obstacle or difficulty to be overcome; movable frame made of interlaced twigs or sticks, or of bars or narrow boards, crossing each other

n. something given freely or without recompense; free gift; a present

n. narrow passage; particularly, a narrow channel of water

n. a gap or interruption in space, time, or continuity; a break

n. security; insurance; exemption from loss or damage; immunity from penalty, or the punishment; amnesty

n. place or building where athletic exercises are performed; a school for gymnastics

a. having no result or success

n. one who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data; one who cuts with rough or heavy blows

v. travel by getting free rides from passing vehicles; be carried along with something else

v. deduce; conclude from evidence or premises; lead to as a consequence or conclusion

v. move into another country to stay there permanently

n. sheltered part of a body of water deep enough to provide anchorage for ships; place of shelter; refuge

v. deduce; conclude from evidence or premises; lead to as a consequence or conclusion

a. stubbornly and often recklessly willful; unyielding

v. open the mouth wide; yawn from sleepiness, weariness, or dullness

n. thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes

v. deduce; conclude from evidence or premises; lead to as a consequence or conclusion

n. study of origin and nature of ideas

n. thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes

a. of or pertaining to a portrait or likeness or to portraiture; of the nature of a portrait

v. hang about; wait nearby; remain floating

v. deduce; conclude from evidence or premises; lead to as a consequence or conclusion

n. dim or intermittent flicker or flash of light; faint glow; shimmer

n. students visiting a foreign country to study, board with a local family at an affordable price

v. move into another country to stay there permanently

v. travel by getting free rides from passing vehicles; be carried along with something else

v. hang about; wait nearby; remain floating

n. cause to lean, slant, or slope; deviate from the horizontal or vertical