Stepwells IELTS words
Cambridge IELTS-10 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 10 section 1, reading 1 I have noted the words in the academic reading part “Stepwells “ 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.
Stepwells IELTS words
| Stepwells | A big well that you storage the water and use steps to go into. |
| Monument | a structure or building that is built to honour a special person or event |
| Bygone | Belonging to or happening in a past time |
| Era | a period of time of which particular events or stages of development are typical |
| Irrigation | to supply land with water so that crops and plants will grow |
| Significance | importance |
| Utilitarian | designed to be useful rather than decorative |
| Heyday | the most successful or popular period of someone or something |
| Worship | to have or show a strong feeling of respect and admiration for God or a god |
| Comprise | to have things or people as parts or members; to consist of /
to be the parts or members of something; to make up something |
| Recede | to move further away into the distance, or to become less clear or less bright /
to move further away into the distance, or to become less clear |
| descend | to go or come down/
If darkness or night descends, it becomes dark and day changes to night |
| Negotiate | to have formal discussions with someone in order to reach an agreement with them |
| Crater | the round hole at the top of a volcano, or a hole in the ground similar to this |
| Elaborate | containing a lot of careful detail or many detailed parts |
| Pillar | a strong column made of stone, metal, or wood that supports part of a building |
| Pavilion | a building near a sports field, especially one where cricket is played, used by the players and sometimes by people watching the game /
one of a group of related buildings |
| Sheltered | protected from wind, rain, or other bad weather |
| Relentless | continuing in a severe or extreme way |
| Intricate | having a lot of small parts that are arranged in a complicated or delicate way/
with many complicated details that make something difficult to understand |
| Embellish | to make something more beautiful by adding something to it/
to add or change some details of a story, usually to make it more interesting or exciting |
| Churning | the illegal practice by stockbrokers of buying and selling a client’s investments more often than necessary, in order to make more money in commissions |
| Disuse | the condition of not being used (any longer) |
| Derelict | Derelict buildings or places are not cared for and are in bad condition |
| Drought | a long period when there is little or no rain |
| Throughout | in every part, or during the whole period of time |
| Silt | sand or soil that is carried along by flowing water and then dropped, especially at a bend in a river or at a river’s opening |
| Pristine | new or almost new, and in very good condition |
| Intricately | in a way that has a lot of small parts that are arranged in a complicated or delicate way |
| shrine | a place for worship that is holy because of a connection with a holy person or object /
a special place in which you remember and praise someone who has died, especially someone famous |
| Ruin | to spoil or destroy something completely /
to cause a person or company to lose all their money or their good reputation |
| Neglect | to not give enough care or attention to people or things that are your responsibility |
| Medieval | related to the Middle Ages (= the period in European history from about AD 600 to AD 1500) |
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