Princeton Toefl Flashcards
Ritual
Ceremony
Plumage
The features covering a bird’s body
Tryst
A meeting between lovers in a secret place or at a secret time
Elaborate
Intricate, complex
Twig
A small very thin stem of wood that grows from a branch on a tree
Tunnel
A passage under the ground that animals have dug to live in
Perch
A branch or stick where a bird sits
Lavish
Large, impressive
Delineate
To make the borders between two areas very clear
Beak
Bill
Fondness
To like sth
Choke
To be unable to breathe properly
Set off
To start to go somewhere
Trinket
A small pretty object that is not valuable
Prune
To cut off some of the branches of a tree or bush to make it grow better
Sturdy
Strong
Bypass
To avoid system
Hospitable
Friendly, welcoming, generous to visitors
Account
Description
Gratitude
To feeling of being grateful
Regardless of
Without being affected or influenced by sth
Pendulous
Swinging freely
Give off
Produce a smell
Scent
Fragrance
Edible
Can be eaten
Peek
To look quickly at sth, just see a small amount of it
Canopy
Covering
Foliage
The leaves of a plant
Exclusive
Available only to particular people
Exclusively
Only
Fend off
Fight off
To defend yourself against someone who is attacking you
Boundless
Abundant, having no limit
Surge
To suddenly increase
Shrunk
Shrink=to become smaller
Reed
A type of tall plant like grass that grows in wet places
Accompany
To go somewhere with someone
Rigorous
Careful, thorough, exact
Prospect
The possibility that something will happen
Harassment
Threatening way
Die off
Die one by one until no more of that
Wither
Dry and not bloom
Lintel
A piece of stone or wood across the top of a window or door, forming part of frame
Primitive
Simple, not modern
Apparent
Easy to notice
Inherent
A natural part of it and cannot be separated from it
Conquer
To defeat an enemy
Cumbersome
Slow and difficult, heavy, not easy to use, clumsy
Date back
To have existed since a particular time in the past
Hominid
Human
Underbrush
Underground, small tree growing under
Tame
To reduce the power or strength of sth and prevent it from causing trouble
Resourceful
Good at finding ways of dealing with practical problems
เต็มไปด้วยความคิดริเริ่มสร้างสรรค์และสามารถแก้ปัญหาได้ดี
Lit
Light
Hearth
The area of floor around a fireplace in a house
Harness
Control
Rubbing
Polish
Chipping
Small pieces break off
Flint
Smooth hard stone
Spark
Flash ประกายไฟ
Anthropologist
The scientific study of people, their societies culture
Portable
Able to be carried or move easily
Disposal
Elimination
Reveal
Show
Enable
To make it possible for someone to do something
Artifact
Object
Coincide with
To happen at the Same time as something else, especially by chance
Cope with
Involve
Regarding
Speeches to introduce the subject
Concerning
With regard to
Indifference
Lack of interest
Hail
To describe someone or something as being very good
Lariat
A weapon
Debt
Sum of money
Owe
Borrow
Arduous
Involving a lot of strength and effort
Bow
To bend your body
Squint
To look at sth with your eyes partly closed in order to see better
หรี่ตา ชำเลืองมอง
Glare
To shine with very strong bright light which hurts your eyes
Treeless
No tree
Toughen
To become difficult
Exertion
A lot of physical effort, the use of power
Tie
ผูกให้แน่น
Keep out
ปิดกั้นไม่ให้เข้าไปข้างใน
Bandage
ผ้าพันแผล
Chaps
กางเกงหนังที่ไม่มีส่วนก้นที่ใช้สวมทับกางเกงปกติเพื่อป้องกันส่วนขา
Thorny
Plant has thorns
Handler
Someone who trains an animal
Morale
The level of confidence and positive feelings
Call upon
To formally ask someone to do sth, to visit someone for a short time
Attribute to
To believe that person said it
Cupboard
Wardrobe, cabinet
Rear
Front
Molasses
กากน้ำตาล
Perishable
Is likely to decay quickly
Picturesque
สวยงดงามมีเสน่ห์
Solitude
Isolation, privacy
Aviation
The science or practice of flying in aircraft
No sooner had…than
ในอีกไม่ช้า used to say that something happened almost immediately after something else
Smite
To hit sth with a lot of force
Take in a movie
Go to see a movie
Up-to-date
Modern
Odds against
How likely it is that something will or will not happen
Stunt
A dangerous action
Exemplified
To give an example of sth
Resourcefulness
Good at finding ways of dealing with practical problems
Testify to
To show clearly that sth is the case
Grudge
To do or give sth veery unwillingly
Be deem to do sth
Consider
Indignant
Angry and surprised because you feel insulted or unfairly treated
Ironically
เชิงเหน็บแนม
Subsequent
Come after สิ่งที่ตามมาภายหลัง
Settle down
To become quiet and calm
Illustrious
Famous and admired because of what you have achieved
Foremost
The most important
Mishap
A small accident that does not have very serious results
Stack
Heap
Intrusion
Annoying
Profusion
A very large amount of sth
Fairly
Quite
Endeavor
Try hard to do something
Skimmed off, scraped from
To remove sth from the surface
Seep
To flow slowly through small holes or spaces
Conduit
A pipe which water passes
Drill
A tool or machine used for making holes in something
Artificially
Not real
Offshore
Not far from the coast
Platform
ชานชาลา
Vigorous
Energetic
Rupture
Breach, break แตกออก
Pipeline
A line of connecting pipes, often under the ground, used for sending oil , gas over long distances
Spill
หก
Finite
Having a limit
Frighteningly
Making you feel afraid or nervous
Crest
Top, highest point
Incorporate
Consolidate, unite, to include sth as part of a group
Prominence
The fact of being important and well-known
Genre
Kind, sort, type, style
Virtuoso
Someone who is a very skillful performer especially in music
Literally
To emphasize a strong expression, actually, virtually
Figuratively
To give you a particular idea or picture in your mind
Mere
Small or unimportant things
Cohesive
Connected or related in a reasonable way to form a whole, uniting people or things
Epic
A poem that tells along story about brave actions and exciting events
Summon
Call, gather
Deposit
To put sth down in a particular place
Squeezing
Press sth firmly
Uplift
An increase sth, raised upwards
Carve
To make an object or pattern by cutting a piece of wood or stone
Wash off
To clean dirt from the surface of sth with water
Flank
Side
Outward
Directed towards the outside or away from a place
Upheaval
A very big change that often causes problems
Gorges
A deep narrow valley with steep sides
Till
Until
Tilt
To move or make sth move into a position
Terrain
Region, territory ภูมิประเทศ
Picturesque
สวยสง่ามีเสน่ห์, scenic
Incessant
Constant
Railroad
Railway
Executive
เกี่ยวกับการดำเนินการ การบริหาร
Wrought iron
เหล็กบริสุทธิ์ที่ดัดเป็นรูปร่างต่างๆได้
Drawn-out
Take more time than usual or more time than you would think
Cutlery
Knives, forks, spoons
Spring
Curved metal
Mine
To dig large holes in the ground in order to remove gold
Shovel
พลั่ว
Depot
A place where goods are stored until they are needed
Dizzy
โง่เง่า เวียนศีรษะหน้ามืดfeeling unable to stand steadily ex. A high place
Disparate
Consisting of things or people that are very different and not related to each other
Confluence
The place where two or more rivers flow together
Radical
Extreme, very big and important
Prodigious
Very large or great in a surprising or impressive way
Crisscross
A pattern made up of a lot of straight lines that cross each other
Punctuate
To be interrupted by sth, especially when this is repeated
Graphically
Very clear, vividly
Craftwork
งานฝีมือ
Bead
ลูกปัด
Crafts person
คนที่มีทักษะงานฝีมือ
String
To put thing together
Excise
To remove or get rid of sth, especially by cutting it out
Pierce
to make a small hole in or through something, using an object with a sharp point
Sinew
A part of your body that connect a muscle to a bone
Embroidered
Decorated
Paleness
More white
Fathomless
Impossible to measure or understand
Hang on
To hold sth tightly
Worship
Respect for a God
Commemorate
ระลึกถึง
Made out of
Produce
Woven
Weave
Barter
Exchange
Come into
Move towards you
Reluctant to
Unwilling to
Stand-in
someone who does the job or takes the place of someone else for a short time
For a while
ชั่วขณะหนึ่ง, a period of time
Shatter
To break suddenly into very small pieces
Splinter
a small sharp piece of wood, glass, or metal, that has broken off a larger piece:
Virtue
Moral goodness of character and behaviour
Opp; vice
Boon
something that is very useful and makes your life a lot easier or better:
The bus service is a real boon to people in the village.
Take up
Interested in anew activity
Rim
The outside edge of sth circular
Stand on
Give opinion
Gash
A large deep hole
Cataclysm
A violent or sudden event
Wear away
To gradually become smoother or thinner
Topmost
Top
Cave in
Fall down
Tumble
Fall down quickly
Meandered
Slow relax
Bulge
To stick out in a rounded shape, especially bcoz sth is very full or too tight
Carve out
Move
Sweep away
To completely destroy
Subject to
Depend on
Perpetual
Continue to exist for a long time
Break off
To end
Be/get carried away
To be so excited, interested
Split
To divide
Friction
the natural force that prevents one surface from sliding easily over another surface:
Respect
The belief in something
Crust
The hard outer layer of the earth
Tremble
Shake slightly
Palimpsest
An ancient document
Collision with
Hit each other while moving in different direction
Cease
Stop
Ripped from
แยก ฉีก
Come up with
To have an idea
Accretion
a layer of a substance which slowly forms on something
Side by side
Next to each other
Arise
Begin to happen
Peculiar
Strange
Remain
ซากที่ยังเหลืออยู่
Coalesced into
Fuse
Comet
ดาวหาง
Meteor
ดาวตก
Crater
ปล่องภูเขาไฟ
Apart from
เว้นเสียแต่ว่า, นอกเหนือไปจาก
Patch
A small area
Efface
To destroy or remove sth, erase
Mitigate
Alleviate
Wildlife
Animals and plants growing in natural conditions
Tap
Use
Traverse
To move across, over , or through sth, especially an area of land or water
Extremity of
The part that is furthest away from the centre of sth
Subsequently
Accordinglyตามลำดับ
Mindful of sth
Conscious of, remembering a particular rule ofpr fact and thinking about it when you are making decisions about what to do
Driftwood
Wood floating in the sea or left on the shore
Myriad
Very many
Creek
A small narrow stream or river
Birch
A tree with smooth
Aspiration
Ambition, a strong desire to have or achieve sth
Venture
A new business activity that involves taking risks, to go somewhere that could be dangerous
Nimble
Agile, quick
Voyager
Someone who makes long and often dangerous journeys, especially on the sea
Paddle
พาย
Paramount
More important than anything else
Frontier
The border of a country
Cooperation
การทำงานร่วมกัน, ความร่วมมือ willingness to do what someone asks you to do
