IELTS Vocabulary Practice (Intermediate-Advanced level)

cadaver

firmanent

furnish

gaunt

gnaw

haggard

1.     Uplifted sheets of snow drifted hither and thither before the wind – a world of eddying flakes shutting out the ______ above.

2.     A night of restless slumber, filled with dreams of feasting – wakings distressed with the ______ of hunger.

3.     The sixth day passed -  the seventh dawned upon as _____ and ______ and hopeless a company of men as ever stood in the shadow of death.

4.     Richard, tall,_____, and pale, rose up.

5.     We must determine which of us shall die to _____ food for the rest!