4000 IELTS Academic Words

Stories of USA Today
Materials for Reading & Listening Practice
Want to know your IELTS vocabulary level? Try the Test Page. You can also Report My Test to us; Our tutors may view your testing and give you a suggestion. It is a FREE service.
Vocabulary Study Online by Level
Vocabulary Study Online
Vocabulary Study Online By Level (VSOBL) is a Fast, Reliable, and Handy tool to prepare English exam vocabulary. (Available for all VIP accounts: US$2/Month). It has built-in word lists: 6000 IELTS words, 6000 TOEFL words, 5000 GRE words, and 3000 SAT words. You can load them by level with one click.
  Academic Words Level 3 - 3 - Matching Quizzes
Word List   Previous   Next    
layer  Speak Example sentences
1
Exercise
capable of being negotiated; transferable by assignment or endorsement to another person
Exercise
spoil or damage; impair the soundness, perfection, or integrity of
Exercise
a flat float made of logs or planks;  a large number or amount or extent
Exercise
tier; a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
mar  Speak Example sentences
2
Exercise
spoil or damage; impair the soundness, perfection, or integrity of
Exercise
a person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection; fugitive from the law; habitual criminal
Exercise
very old-fashioned; as if belonging to the Middle Ages
Exercise
chief excellence or great talent; outstanding work of art or craft
margin  Speak Example sentences
3
Exercise
danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction
Exercise
condition of being pure; freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; cleanness
Exercise
border; rim; the amount by which one thing is different from another
Exercise
product of a body's mass and its velocity; impelling force or strength; impetus
masterpiece  Speak Example sentences
4
Exercise
expectable; likely; capable of being predicted or foretold
Exercise
chief excellence or great talent; outstanding work of art or craft
Exercise
something paid or given; payment to a person in consideration of past services
Exercise
weigh; weigh in mind; view with deliberation; examine carefully; consider attentively
mingle  Speak Example sentences
5
Exercise
frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on axis, on which threads or lines are wound
Exercise
be all mixed up or jumbled together
Exercise
movable; not fixed; fluid; unstable
Exercise
a person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection; fugitive from the law; habitual criminal
momentum  Speak Example sentences
6
Exercise
product of a body's mass and its velocity; impelling force or strength; impetus
Exercise
something paid or given; payment to a person in consideration of past services
Exercise
tier; a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
Exercise
declaration of something to come; foretelling; prediction; knowledge of the future
organ  Speak Example sentences
7
Exercise
natural part or structure in animal or plant, capable of performing some special action
Exercise
a flat float made of logs or planks;  a large number or amount or extent
Exercise
privilege; unquestionable right; exclusive power to command
Exercise
very old-fashioned; as if belonging to the Middle Ages
overlook  Speak Example sentences
8
Exercise
ignore; disregard;  fail to notice; watch over
Exercise
a person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection; fugitive from the law; habitual criminal
Exercise
spoil or damage; impair the soundness, perfection, or integrity of
Exercise
border; rim; the amount by which one thing is different from another
pension  Speak Example sentences
9
Exercise
danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction
Exercise
stage; a raised horizontal surface
Exercise
make neutral and thus inoffensive
Exercise
something paid or given; payment to a person in consideration of past services
prerogative  Speak Example sentences
10
Exercise
be slow in leaving; continue or persist; stay
Exercise
a flat float made of logs or planks;  a large number or amount or extent
Exercise
make neutral and thus inoffensive
Exercise
privilege; unquestionable right; exclusive power to command