Another Useful Vocabulary to describe an animal in IELTS Speaking Test

Among the common questions to be asked during the IELTS Speaking Test is to describe an animal. In my previous blog, I talked about 10 facts about Lions, with high quality words to easily use that information during the IELTS Speaking Test. Today we will be covering the same topic but a different animal. So, let’s get started with finding 10 facts about wolves with high quality words for you to use in the IELTS Speaking Test.

1- Wolves develop close relationships and strong social bonds; they sacrifice themselves to protect the family unit.

• Social bonds: a strong feeling of friendship, love, or shared beliefs that gathers them together.

• Sacrifice: give up something valued for the sake of others.

• Family unit: the members of a family, especially parents and children, considered as a single entity within society.

2- Wolves are the largest members of the dog family.

3- Wolves live and hunt in packs.

• Packs: a group of wild animals, especially wolves, living and hunting together.

4- Wolves are highly territorial animals.

• Territorial animals: the behaviour of a male animal that defines and defends its territory.

• Territory: an area of land under the control of someone in power.

5- A single wolf can consume 9 kg of meat in one sitting!

• Consume: eat, drink, or ingest (food or drink).

• One sitting: you do not stop doing it until you have finished it.

6- Wolves are not particularly fast. They instead rely on their hearing and sense of smell to detect prey.

• Rely: depend on with full trust or confidence.

• Detect: discover or identify the presence of something.

• Prey: an animal that is hunted and killed by another for food.

7- Wolves have only one breeding season per year – in the winter.

• Breeding season: Time of year where animals including mammals and birds give birth.

8- Wolves feed their young by regurgitating the food for the pups.

• Regurgitating: bring (swallowed food) up again to the mouth.

• Pups: a young wolf, seal, rat, or other mammal.

9- The grey wolf has always been persecuted more than any other animal. However, its intelligence and flexibility have saved it from extinction.

• Persecuted: Harassed.

• Flexibility: willingness to change or compromise.

• Extinction: being destroyed so that they no longer exist

10- Once a wolf has found a mate, they usually stay together for life.

• Mate: the sexual partner of an animal.

If you provide full understanding of these words and you practice using them, it will be easier for you to remember them during the test.

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