IELTS READING VOCABULARY BOOKLET 3

IELTS READING VOCABULARY BOOKLET 3

(CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH IELTS)

TEST: 1         PASSAGE: 1            The Rocket –from east to west

Concept         mechanism    key                  represent        milestone                   able

Develop         intrigue          exploration    breakthrough                                                intellectual

Ensure            transition       sporadically artefact           prodigious                 accelerate

Sophisticate  fiction                        realms                        analogy          mount                         ejection

Inextricably   civilization    ingredient      incendiary     enemies                      apparently

Display          incentive        aggressive      describe         huge                            devastating

Forum             humble           beginning       greatest-progress                              appropriate

Impact              

PASSAGE: 2            The Risks of Cigarette Smoke

Discover        essence          active             ingredient      component                contain

Cancer-causing                     recent             evidence        vastly                         fatal

Preventable   emphasize     adverse          substantial     compensate               inhalation

Consequently                                    far-greater     cause              interfere                     life-giving

Criticize         establish        smoke-free    workplace                 

PASSAGE: 3            The Scientific Method  

Hypothesis    imaginative   inspirational  character        adventure                  argue

Essential        interpretation                        begin              suffer                          myth

Raw                sensory          generalization                       array                           factual

Relevant        emerge           unbiased        expectation   outcome                     influence

Methodology                                    discord           conduct          naïve                          guesswork

Rigorously     appropriate    prediction      modify           retain                          until

Arrive             strictly            hence              existence       formulate                   antidote

Inevitable      describe         approach        bring               immediately              worth

Evaluate         obtain                         fascinating      

TEST: 2         PASSAGE: 1            A Remarkable Beetle

Remarkable               dung               breeding         almost                        creative          evolve

Adapt                                     climate           native             coarse             avoid              premier

Import                                    integrate         pasture           release            handful          beneath

Self-sustain               ecology          obvious          shelter                        originate        require

Off spring                  sun-tropical   prefer             evident           pupation        residue

Abandon                    habitual          soil enriching                                    essential         soil nutrient

Cause                                     dispose           integral-part  decade            competition 

PASSAGE: 2            Environment Management

Role                            management inescapable   resource         own                 Often

However                    harmful          subsidize       exploitation   Consumption                       

Whole                                    range              protection      damage           Scrap              bonus

Efficient                     go-hand-in-hand                  Courage         confront         vested

Create                         impact                        Contaminate  Intensive        exacerbate     threaten

Diminish                    Embark          Vanish            immense        dramatic         conduct

Commodity               over-stocking                        diversify        enlightened   Eliminate

Follow                        incentive         dislike           residue           Aggravate      yield

Treadmill                   lethal               overuse         Intensity         sustainable    long-run

Feed                            effective          Efficient

PASSAGE: 3            The concept of Role Theory           

Individual                  occupy           analysis          regard             interact           Instance

Include                       trivial             expectation   legal                Constrain       eventually

Likelihood                 prescribe        circumstance                         Indicate          formality

Gathering                   status              blurring          probably        insecure         wish

Permitted                   subordinate   rituals             emphasis        no-longer       therefore

Frown                         serve               differing         ambiguity      uncertainty    precisely

Description               lessen                         seldom           except                        scale               subtle

Unsaid                        heighten         sense              irritation        among                        operational

Appropriate               hear                quite               executive

TEST-3          PASSAGE-1             Department of Ethnography

Ethnography             create             separate         gradual           Development                       

Antiquities                concern          include           Complex        ancient           primary

Attention                   Specific          significance   mundane        banal             

Approximately         emphasis        display           broad              Expression    recent

Collaboration                        acquisition    Constraints    exceptional   assume           economic

Rapidly                      irrevocable    alter                fickle              Advent           principally    

Aesthetic                   ever-expanding                    Multi-cultural

PASSAGE: 2            Secrets of Forests

Doctoral                     anthropology                                    venture           isolated          Existence

Cluster                 thatched      perpetual    Manioc       tribe            scourge

Intervening           Relics                   endure         epitomize    conception  Influential

Ageless                 unconquerable                hostile         Civilization apparent

Evolutionary                  adaptation  Ecology      traces          elaborate     ruins

Invaders               decay          betray                   myth           Gather        indicate

Indigenous            extensive     Contemporary                retard                   barrier

Argue                             Unwittingly entire          escape         tenable        Extent

Inhabitant             realization   challenge     Depict         ironically   

Policy-maker        implement   Legislation  clash           suffer         

Long-buried past

PASSAGE: 3       Highs & Lows

Hormone              hence          affect           gloomy       depression cause

Sunshine              spirits                   sufferer       temper        muggy         riots

Functioning                    distract       skeptical     optimistic   peak            triggered

Varying                seem           cope            cycle           exposure

Responsibility      murky

TEST: 4     PASSAGE: 1       Air Pollution

Increasing             around        proposed    trial             implement   ever

Measure               deteriorate fronts                   legislation   enforcement         

Intend                            campaign    elsewhere    offender’s   decrepit       gauge

Tendency              congestion  badge          sophistication       controversial 

Scope                             immense     megacity     exceed         progress

Manufacturers      authorities  enforce        monitor       encourage   whilst

Car-pooling          guideline     urgent                   severely      sufferer

Passage: 2            Votes for Women

Suffragette            associate     archive        convey        reference     nationwide

Corporate             organizational                commercial           devote         enforcement

Counterparts        cohesion     desert                   vital            sympathetic         

Cause                             huge –market                 spend                   exploit        countless

Forthcoming         indicate       reveal                   fierce                    populace

Image-builders

Passage: 3 Measuring Organizational Performance

Clear cut               evidence      achieve        significant   substantial extent

Suffer                             description  aptitude      entail           assign                   random

Reflect                  Occur                   hierarchically                  obviously    eliminate

Probably              Involvement