IELTS Difficult Words and Vocabulary Part 4

IELTS speaking and writing is a challenge for many test takers, especially who are expecting to get a high score in academic IELTS test. The secret of the good reading mark is you must have a huge vocabulary. If you have built a strong vocabulary already, study these words/difficult words will enrich your speaking and writing skill and increase the chance to shoot an excellent mark in IELTS.

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Vocabulary For IELTS

This blog has more than 1500 difficult words with their meanings, explanation, and usage with example sentences to improve vocabulary and speaking, writing skill. These are unusually used in daily but common in topics of IELTS academic (Speaking, writing and reading). We call these words as difficult words IELTS vocabulary that is very valuable for students who want to enhance their speaking, writing and reading skill and score. These words are indispensable for IELTS Exam and you need to use these words in your speaking and writing test of IELTS. These words will greatly impact your IELTS Score. You will be able to impress your examiner with these words in writing and speaking test.

IELTS Difficult Words Meanings

These difficult words are divided into four parts for easy use so one by one you can learn and use these easily. All the parts can be found from below of every post so you can visit easily where you want to go between the parts.

Propensities	A tendency towards a particular way of behaving, especially a bad one. (She’s inherited from her father a propensity to talk too much.) (He’s well known for his natural propensity for indiscretion.)
Rare	Not common, unusual. (A rare disease) (The museum is full of rare & precious treasures./Occasion, opportunity e.g. It’s very rare to find these birds in England in Winter.
Abundant	More than enough, (An abundant supply of food.) (Cheap consumer goods are abundant (=exist in large amounts) in this part of the world.
Intimidating	Making you feel frightened or nervous. (An intimidating array of weapons). (She can be very intimidating when she’s angry.)
Sobriquet	A name given to someone or something which is not their real name or not an official. (Nickname)
Exact	In great detail, or complete, correct or true in every way, precise (the exact blog for students).
Trapped	To keep something because it is useful. (He wants to trap my article but couldn’t do).
Extracted	To remove or take something out. (They used to extract iron ore from this site). The oil is extracted from olives is used for cooking.
Distilled	To show only the most important part of something. (Over 80 hours of distilled into these 40 minutes.)
Consequently	As a result. (I spent most of my money in the first week and consequently had very little to eat by the end of the holiday.)
Gimmicks	Something which is not serious or of real value that is used to attract people’s attention or especially to make them buy something. E.g. They give always free gifts with children’s means as a sales/marketing gimmick.
Perception	A belief or opinion, often held by many people and based on how things seem. (We have to change the public’s perception that money is being wasted.) (This photographs will affect people’s perceptions of war).
Probably	Used to mean that something is very likely. (I will probably be home by midnight) (I am probably going – It depends on whether)
Blended	Describes a drink which contains two or more different types of the same product. (Blended whisky)
Mitigate	To make something less harmful, unpleasant or bad. (It is unclear how to mitigate the effects of tourism on the island).
Diving	The sport of diving (Jumping into water or swimming under a water).
Threat	A suggestion that something unpleasant or violent will happen, especially if a particular action or order is followed. (She carried out her threat to throw away any clothes that were left on the floor. (Drunken driver pose a serious threat.)
Cheerfully	Adverb (She walked down the road, whistling cheerfully). (By the end of the evening I could cheerfully have (= I would like to have) punched him.
Criticism	When you say that something or someone is bad, disapproval. (The design for the new mosque have attracted widespread criticism). (I have a few criticism to make of/about your speech).
Ersatz	Used instead of something else, usually because the other thing is too expensive or rare. (I’m allowed to eat ersatz chocolate made from carob beans, but it’s a poor substitute for the real things.)

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