Book 11 Test 1 Passage 1 Vocabulary & Answers

Vocabulary IELTS Book 11 Test 4 Passage 3

This Marvellous Invention

  1. Ascent: climb up

  2. Ingenious simplicity: clever, original

  3. Foremost: before everything

  4. Marvellous: extraordinary

  5. Paradox: contradictory statement

  6. Craftsman: a skilful person

  7. Measly: ridiculously small or few

  8. Morsels: a small piece or amount of food

  9. Cogs: tooth

  10. Spits and splutters: to speak in haste

  11. Interminable: infinite

  12. Boredom: malaise, apathy

  13. Unravelling: untangle, straighten out

  14. Tropical: equator

  15. Subtropical: near equator

  16. Exertion: effort

  17. Exotic: foreigner, unusual

  18. Outlandish: Unusual, Bizarre

  19. Pull off: succeed in achieving or winning something difficult.

  20. Euphrates: longest river

  21. Nifty: attractive, stylish, particularly good

  22. Contraption: Machine, Device, Apparatus

Answers

  1. vi

  2. iv

  3. ii

  4. vii

  5. i

  6. E

  7. G

  8. B

  9. F

  10. NO

  11. YES

  12. NOT GIVEN

  13. YES