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

Strange, unexplained, unsolved.

Finding, innovation, breakthrough.

A ship or large boat.

To carefully cut, print, or write words on something, especially on the surface of a stone or coin.

Someone who studies ancient societies by examining what remains of their buildings, graves, tools, etc.

To be a symbol of something.

To dig carefully to find ancient objects, bones, etc.

To respect, pay tribute to.

Someone who had your job before you started doing it.

A passage which goes down through a building or down into the ground.

Effort, try, go.

Something you do in order to prevent something dangerous or unpleasant from happening.

Complicated, complex, sophisticated, tricky.

System.

Things that you own that are worth a lot of money, such as jewelry, cameras, etc.

To not notice something, or not see how important it is.

Someone who steals things from another person or place.

To surprise, overwhelm, amaze.

A statement that makes something seem better, larger, etc., than it really is.

To be considered to be something.

A very important event in the development of something.

Completely new and different, especially in a way that leads to great improvements.

A perfect example of something because it has all the most important qualities of things that belong to that type.

Best, most important, or most successful.