IGCSE Vocabulary Quiz

a person who has escaped from a ship that has sunk, and managed to get to an island or country where there are few or no other people

• sheer

• vulture

• recession

• castaway

an occasion when a group of people, especially soldiers or sailors, refuses to obey orders and/or attempts to take control from people in authority

• beckon

• mutiny

• dwelling

• exertion

a sudden and great increase

• endavour

• immense

• surge

• rogue

act according to an order, set of rules, or request

• dwelling

• trap

• comply

• summit

extremely large in size or degree

• immense

• scoffing

• vigorous

• surge

to move your hand or head in a way that tells someone to come nearer

• devour

• beckon

• howl

• dispell

to eat something eagerly and in large amounts so that nothing is left

• dwindle

• sheer

• comply

• devour

(especially of a business, job, or activity) producing a lot of money

• marooned

• lucrative

• ominiously

• fusty

used to emphasize how very great, important, or powerful a quality or feeling is; nothing except

• sheer

• rogue

• dwelling

• scoffing

contemptuously ridiculing or mocking someone or something

• cautious

• unscalable

• vigorous

• scoffing