Ielts vocabulary Masterclass book + ielts listening & Reading Dictionary: Dominate Proficiency Level Vocabulary for ielts listening, Reading, Writing & Speaking

Soporific: MEANING: Tending to induce drowsiness or sleep
SENTENCE: The motion of the train had a somewhat soporific effect.
Spartan: MEANING: Practicing great self-denial, unsparing and
uncompromising in discipline or judgement
SENTENCE: Her apartment was so spartan that she couldn't even serve us
both soups; she only had one bowl and one spoon.
Spasmodically: MEANING: In spurts and fits; with spasms
SENTENCE: The newborn giraffe lies in a sodden heap, heaving
spasmodically with its first gulps of air.
Specious: MEANING: Plausible but false; deceptively pleasing
SENTENCE: Misinformation, falsehoods and specious claims dominate
his public pronouncements.
Sporadic: MEANING: Recurring in scattered and irregular or
unpredictable instances
SENTENCE: In the last few decades, the west has been subjected to
sporadic terrorist bombings.