Difficult IELTS Words - Group 8

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a. proper to be permitted; allowable; admissible.


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v. endure; be persistent, refuse to stop


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v. locate or identify with precision


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a. flexible; yielding; easily bent or shaped


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v. take goods of by force, or without right; spoil; sack; strip; rob


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a. expedient; artful, crafty or cunning; using, displaying, or proceeding from policy


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n. person or organization that causes pollution of the environment; someone who makes unfit for or harmful to living things


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v. gaze intently; stare; scrutinize; read or study carefully and attentively


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v. depict; describe; draw


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a. occurring or done after death; relating to a medical examination of a dead body


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