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Difficult Vocabulary
Some IELTS reading questions cause problems because of difficult vocabulary.
Read the following sentences from Cambridge IELTS 4, page 46.
x
We've had a tradition of doctors being fairly powerful and I guess they are pretty
loath to allow any pretenders to their position to come into it.
x
A better educated and less accepting public has become disillusioned with the
experts
in general, and increasingly sceptical about science.
x
Those surveyed had experienced chronic illnesses,
for which orthodox medicine
had been able to provide little relief.
Exercise 22: Which words in the sentences above have the following meanings?
Write ONE WORD ONLY.
1. long-term or persistent: ……….
2. having doubts or reservations:
……….
3. reluctant or unwilling: ……….
4. conventional or normal: ……….
5. disappointed when something is
not
as good as you thought it
was: ……….
IELTS
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Guessing the meanings of new words from the text (context)
You often don’t need to understand every word to carry out the required task. You can
often guess
the meaning of an unknown word, especially if you can see what the
writer is doing.
Exercise 23:
Read the paragraph about obesity and answer the questions below.
Obesity is a medical disorder that affects that approximately 20-30% of the
population of the United States of America. It is an excessive
accumulation of
body fat that results from the storage of excess food energy calories in the
body’s fat cells.
1. Most Americans suffer from obesity.
True False Not Given
2. This paragraph presents …
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