Barron Essential Words for IELTS - EXE 5/1

abroad

• in a foreign country

• a great deal, noticeably

• happening because of good luck

• well, successfully

to give medicine or medical treatment

• revive

• sway

• merge

• administer

bulk

• an object used by actors

• the largest part

• appearance of being real, false impression

• difficulty, opposition

not simple

• exaggerated

• complex

• renowned

• exaggerated

cripple

• to improve, perfect

• to represent, act out

• to cause serious damage; weaken

• to combine

period of ten years

• prop

• gesture

• decade

• stereotype

decline

• culminate

• evoke

• to gradually go lower, become smaller

• attribute

rapid spread of a disease

• scholar

• altar

• epidemic

• garland

estimate

• to try to stop or prevent something

• to guess based on information

• to mark a surface with words or letters

• to cut and shape hard material

to attract

• revive

• merge

• lure

• inscribe