91. IELTS Minh Huong Vocabulary booster (Cambridge 16, test 1, reading 1)

A measure of how hot or cold a place or thing is.

Extensive, prevalent, general, common, rife.

An occasion when crops do not grow or produce food, often due to bad weather.

To rely on, count on, bank on, trust.

Compensate.

To replace something that has been lost or to get better after an illness, accident, shock, etc.

The activity of buying, selling, or exchanging goods within a country or between countries.

To enlarge, get bigger, develop.

Finding, innovation, breakthrough.

A lot of, lots of.

Across land, not by sea or air.

The business of selling and sending goods to other countries.

Having a period of great prosperity or rapid economic growth.

Request, plea, call.

One of the two horns of a male deer.

Early history, dawn of time, ancient history.

Distant, isolated, far-flung, far-off.

Example, model, illustration.

To break up into very small pieces.

To remove an object from somewhere, especially with difficulty.

If an area of water, snow, or land retreats, it gradually gets smaller.

Global, worldwide, universal, transnational.

Find, uncover, realize.

A piece of equipment that measures the temperature of the air, body, etc.