The falkirk wheel IELTS unknown words
Cambridge IELTS-11 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 11 section 1, reading 2. I have noted the words in the academic reading part ” The falkirk wheel ” 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.
The falkirk wheel IELTS words
| Falkirk | A city in Scotland |
| Ambitious | having a strong wish to be successful, powerful, or rich/
If a plan or idea is ambitious, it needs a great amount of skill and effort to be successful or be achieved |
| Navigability | the degree to which an area of water is deep, wide, or safe enough for a boat to go through /
(of a website or computer screen) the quality of being easy to move around to find the information or part that you want |
| Challenge | (the situation of being faced with) something that needs great mental or physical effort in order to be done successfully and therefore tests a person’s ability |
| Sequence | a series of related things or events, or the order in which they follow each other |
| Dismantle | to take a machine apart or to come apart into separate pieces /
to get rid of a system or organization, usually over a period of time |
| Thereby | as a result of this action |
| Launch | an event to celebrate or introduce something new |
| Commemoration | something that is done to remember officially and give respect to a great person or event |
| Tilt | to (cause to) move into a sloping position |
| Monorail | a railway system that has a single rail (= the long metal bar on which the train travels) often above ground level, or the train that travels along it |
| Manmade | artificial rather than natural |
| Notably | important and deserving attention, because of being very good or interesting |
| Propeller | a device that causes a ship or aircraft to move, consisting of two or more blades that spin at high speed |
| Assemble | to come together in a single place or bring parts together in a single group |
| Painstakingly | in a way that shows you have taken a lot of care or made a lot of effort |
| Crane | a tall metal structure with a long horizontal part, used for lifting and moving heavy objects |
| Withstand | to be strong enough, or not be changed by something, or to oppose a person or thing successfully |
| Immense | extremely large in size or degree |
| Displacement | the situation in which people are forced to leave the place where they normally live |
| Basin | an open, round container shaped like a bowl with sloping sides, used for holding food or liquid |
| Clamp | a device made of wood or metal that is used to hold two things together tightly |
| Axle | a bar connected to the centre of a circular object such as a wheel that allows or causes it to turn, especially one connecting two wheels of a vehicle |
| Gear | a device, often consisting of connecting sets of wheels with teeth (= points) around the edge, that controls how much power from an engine goes to the moving parts of a machine: |
| Cog | one of the tooth-like parts around the edge of a wheel in a machine that fits between those of a similar wheel, causing both wheels to move /
cogwheel a wheel with cogs around its edge, used to turn another wheel or part in a machine |
| Aqueduct | a structure for carrying water across land, especially one like a high bridge with many arches that carries pipes or a canal across a valley |
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