1. http://www.vocabulary.com/lists/search?searchtext=ielts&x=0&y=0 2. picky exacting especially about details 3.

deduce conclude,reason by deduction; establish by deduction

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defiance bold disobedience.,a hostile challenge

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defile make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically

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defy resist or confront with resistance

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deliberate carefully thought out in advance

8. denominate assign a name or title to 9. despise look down on with disdain 10. detach cause to become detached or separated; take off

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deviate Not in right direction,a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

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dormant inactive but capable of becoming active

13. dredge a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed 14. dubious fraught with uncertainty or doubt 15. duly at the proper time 16. dwell inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of 17. earnest characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions 18. eddy a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself 19. effluent water mixed with waste matter 20. elated exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits 21. gimmick any clever maneuver 22. glamour alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal) 23. glimmer

a flash of light (especially reflected light) 24. salvage the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire 25. outbreak a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition) 26. plateau a relatively flat highland 27. plead appeal or request earnestly 28. pore any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas) 29. posterity all future generations 30. potent having or wielding force or authority 31. potion a medicinal or magical or poisonous beverage 32. pounce move down on as if in an attack 33. pragmatic concerned with practical matters 34. precarious not secure; beset with difficulties

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predisposition an inclination beforehand to interpret statements in a particular way

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pretentious making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction

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pretext something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason

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prevail be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance

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prey animal hunted or caught for food

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prolific intellectually productive

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pry be nosey

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blunt used of a knife or other blade; not sharp

43. blush become rosy or reddish 44. bloom produce or yield flowers 45. crutch anything that serves as an expedient

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culminate end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage

47. culprit someone who perpetrates wrongdoing 48. contemplate think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes 49. abet assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing 50. acquire come into the possession of something concrete or abstract 51. adept having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude 52. adjacent having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching 53. aesthetic concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste 54. affliction a cause of great suffering and distress 55. aggravate make worse 56. agony intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain 57. airing

the act of supplying fresh air and getting rid of foul air 58. aisle a long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods) 59. ale a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume 60. alga primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves

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1. querulous habitually complaining 2. integrate make into a whole or make part of a whole 3. contrary exact opposition

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inception an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events

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tranquil (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves

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pertain be relevant to

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disfigure mar or spoil the appearance of

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suffragist an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women)

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orchard garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth

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territory a region marked off for administrative or other purposes

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transmitted occurring among members of a family usually by heredity

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distinction a discrimination between things as different and distinct

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cornice the topmost projecting part of an entablature

14. wanderer someone who leads a wandering unsettled life 15. wander

to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course 16. prosody the study of poetic meter and the art of versification 17. patchy irregular or uneven in quality, texture, etc. 18. patch a small contrasting part of something 19. tout advertize in strongly positive terms 20. somber grave or even gloomy in character 21. compound a whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts 22. spasmodic occurring in spells and often abruptly 23. compendium a publication containing a variety of works 24. fecundity the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring 25. fodder coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop 26. rapture a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion

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abstain choose not to consume

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espionage the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets

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reprimand an act or expression of criticism and censure

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retrograde moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction

1. Acquiesce 2. Acronym 3. Ambiguity 4. Analogy 5. Anachronism 6. Andragogy 7. Antithesis 8. Antonym 9. Articulate 10. Assonance 11. Benchmarking 12. Brainstorming 13. Circumspect 14. Clandestine 15. Cognition 16. Collaborate 17. Colloquial 18. Connotation 19. Contrived 20. Conundrum 21. Correlation 22. Criterion 23. Cumulative 24. Curriculum 25. Deference 26. Developmental 27. Dialect 28. Diction

29. Didactic 30. Dissertation 31. Divergent 32. Egregious 33. Eloquence 34. Emergent 35. Empathy 36. Enigma 37. Epitome 38. Epiphany 39. Epitaph 40. Erudite 41. Existential 42. Exponential 43. Formative 44. Holistic 45. Homonym 46. Hubris 47. Hyperbole 48. Incongruous 49. Infamy 50. Initiation 51. Innate 52. Intellectual 53. Interactive 54. Irony 55. Jargon 56. Juxtaposition 57. Malapropism 58. Magnanimous 59. Mentor 60. Metaphor 61. Meticulous 62. Mnemonic 63. Monologue 64. Motif 65. Myriad 66. Nemesis 67. Nominal 68. Norms 69. Obfuscate 70. Obtuse 71. Onomatopoeia 72. Ostentatious 73. Oxymoron 74. Paradox

75. Paraphrase 76. Pedantic 77. Pedagogy 78. Perusal 79. Phonemes 80. Phonological 81. Plagiarism 82. Plethora 83. Posthumously 84. Preposition 85. Pretentious 86. Pseudonym 87. References 88. Reflection 89. Rubric 90. Sardonic 91. Satire 92. Simile 93. Soliloquy 94. Superfluous 95. Syntax 96. Thesis 97. Validity 98. Vernacular 99. Virtual 100. Vocational