“Collecting ant speciments ” IELTS words
Cambridge IELTS-8 academic reading part high level words. If your target score 6.5 and higher, you should know these words.
There are lots of IELTS exam methods and tactics to get a high score is available. However, if you have a lack of information, they only help up to a point. Based on this topic, I made my IELTS preparation with complete my information on the upper level (B2-C1-C2) vocabularies and tried taking note of frequently used words. I thought it would be good to learn. IELTS There is a lot of non-ordinary words in the academic reading exam, and many of them are used to create a mess. However, when you examine all tests with a different view, you will see that there are many words used again and again. Extra vocabularies will help you to understand to reading part more efficiently.
Cambridge IELTS preparation series book 8, section 4, reading 3 I have noted the words in the academic reading part “Collecting ant speciments ” Again, maybe all of these are not exactly the necessary words for the exam, but I think people should take a look. Because if you have to get a good score, you should know something good.
The order of the words is relative to the order in which the reading is used. Descriptions are also given in the Cambridge dictionary. Here is the reading unknown words.
Collecting ant speciments IELTS words
| Stray | to travel along a route that was not originally intended, or to move outside a limited area |
| Exhaustive | complete and including everything |
| Abundance | the situation in which there is more than enough of something |
| Caste | a system of dividing Hindu society into classes, or any of these classes |
| Compatible | able to exist, live, or work successfully with something or someone else |
| Overlook | to provide a view of, especially from above |
| Favour | the support or approval of something or someone |
| Bait | a small amount of food on a hook (= curved piece of wire) or in a special device used to attract and catch a fish or animal |
| Litter | mall pieces of rubbish that have been left lying on the ground in public places: |
| Pitfall | an unexpected danger or difficulty: |
| Rotten | Very bad |
| Log | a thick piece of tree trunk or branch, especially one cut for burning on a fire |
| Trunk | the thick main stem of a tree, from which its branches grow/
the main part of a person’s body, not including the head, legs, or arms/ the main part of a blood vessel or nerve |
| Nest | a structure built by birds or insects to leave their eggs in to develop, and by some other animals to give birth or live in |
| Nocturnal | being active or happening at night rather than during the day |
| Confine | to limit an activity, person, or problem in some way |
| Forceps | a metal instrument with two handles used in medical operations for picking up, pulling, and holding things |
| Elusive | If something that you want eludes you, you do not succeed in achieving it |
| Debris | broken or torn pieces of something larger |
| Extract | to remove or take out something: |
| Funnel | an object that has a wide round opening at the top, sloping sides, and a narrow tube at the bottom, used for pouring liquids or powders into containers with narrow necks |
| Marshy | ground near a lake, a river, or the sea that often floods and is always wet |
| Sift | to put flour, sugar, etc. through a sieve (= wire net shaped like a bowl) to break up large pieces |
| Coarse | rough and not smooth or soft, or not in very small pieces |
| Twigs | a small, thin branch of a tree or bush, especially one removed from the tree or bush and without any leaves |
| Preservative | a substance used to prevent decay in wood/
a chemical used to stop food from decaying |
| Intervention | action taken to intentionally become involved in a difficult situation in order to improve it or prevent it from getting worse |
| Encounter | a meeting, especially one that happens by chance |
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