Difficult IELTS Words - Group 9

n. activity that refreshes and recreates; snacks and drinks served as a light meal

v. make simple; make less complex; make clear by giving the explanation for

v. leave a place, or a meeting, without being noticed; pass quickly, almost unnoticed; disappear or die

n. remainder; small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists

a. of a resource sustainable; able to be regrown or renewed; having an ongoing or continuous source of supply; not finite

n. cloth used to wrap a body for burial; winding sheet; something that conceals, protects, or screens

n. remainder; small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists

n. a stock certificate or bond, a document indicating ownership or creditor-ship; safety

a. inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative.

a. caused by earthquake or earth vibration; earthshaking

v. restore or return to the country of birth, citizenship, or origin

n. state of being secret or concealed

n. projection of figures or forms from a flat background, as in sculpture, or the apparent projection of such shapes in a painting or drawing

n. review; look back upon; remember

n. act of doing or performing again

v. cause or permit to lean, incline, rest; place in a recumbent position

n. person of royal rank or lineage; share paid to a writer or composer out of the proceeds resulting from the sale or performance of his or her work

n. narrow strip at one side of a movie film that carries the sound recording; music that accompanies a movie

v. fly aloft, as a bird; mount upward on wings; rise in thought, spirits, or imagination

n. act of doing or performing again

v. leave a place, or a meeting, without being noticed; pass quickly, almost unnoticed; disappear or die

a. causing, or tending to cause ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious

a. able to be dissolved; able to be explained

v. give or make available; provide; cause to become

n. line of junction formed by sewing together two pieces; line across a surface, as a crack; scar

n. meeting for an exchange of ideas; conference

n. oral or written statement that one is resigning a position or an office

n. close investigation or examination

n. line of junction formed by sewing together two pieces; line across a surface, as a crack; scar

n. person of royal rank or lineage; share paid to a writer or composer out of the proceeds resulting from the sale or performance of his or her work

v. make simple; make less complex; make clear by giving the explanation for

v. cut or clip hair; strip of something; remove by cutting or clipping

v. make sick; disease; impair; weaken; become sick; fall into disease

n. art or study of using language effectively and persuasively; insincere language

n. state or quality of being alone or remote from others

n. a stock certificate or bond, a document indicating ownership or creditor-ship; safety

a. scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; not enough

n. act of doing or performing again

a. seeming; outward or token appearance; show; figure; form

n. activity that refreshes and recreates; snacks and drinks served as a light meal