TOEFL Vocab Flashcards
1
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Present in large quantities.
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Abundant
2
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To gradually collect.
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Accumulate
3
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Refusing to change an opinion.
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Adamant
4
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Enough to suit your needs.
A
Adequate
5
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Close to or next to.
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Adjacent
6
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Unfavorable; against one’s desires.
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Adverse
7
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To combine.
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Aggregate
8
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To put aside for a specific purpose.
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Allocate
9
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Having several potential meanings; unclear and difficult to understand.
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Ambiguous
10
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To change for the better; to improve.
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Amend
11
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Plentiful.
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Ample
12
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Deviation from the norm.
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Anomaly
13
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To tease or be hostile towards a person or group.
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Antagonize
14
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To give credit.
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Attribute
15
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Based on a whim or random decision.
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Arbitrary
16
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Requiring a lot of effort.
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Arduous
17
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To lessen a negative feeling.
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Assuage
18
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To increase or make larger.
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Augment
19
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To scold.
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Berate
20
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Rude and tactless.
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Brash
21
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Abrupt to the point of rudeness.
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Brusque
22
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A harsh, unpleasant mixture of noise.
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Cacophony
23
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To express strong disapproval.
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Censure
24
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Arranged in order of time or date.
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Chronological
25
To combine or grow together.
Coalesce
26
To force someone to do something against their will.
Coerce
27
Being aware or having knowledge of something.
Cognizant
28
Uniting; becoming one.
Cohesion
29
To occur at the same time.
Coincide
30
To hide.
Conceal
31
To agree.
Concur
32
To restrict or repress.
Constrain
33
To consider thoughtfully.
Contemplate
34
To go on without stopping.
Continuously
35
To make known.
Convey
36
Abundant.
Copious
37
To gradually wear away.
Corrode
38
Burdensome; clumsy
Cumbersome
39
To significantly decrease.
Deplete
40
To discourage.
Deter
41
To differ from the norm.
Deviate
42
To plan or create.
Devise
43
A sharp criticism or attack.
Diatribe
44
To wander from the main subject.
Digress
45
A situation where one must choose between two difficult choices.
Dilemma
46
To shrink or reduce.
Diminish
47
Too large or small when compared to something else.
Disproportionate
48
To misrepresent.
Distort
49
To cause a change of course.
Divert
50
To reduce unpleasantness or difficulty.
Ease
51
Moving speech or writing.
Eloquent
52
Incorrect.
Erroneous
53
To avoid or escape.
Evade
54
Worthy of imitation.
Exemplary
55
Not admitting the majority.
Exclusive
56
To increase in size.
Expand
57
An act of making something longer.
Extension
58
A time when there is an extreme lack of food.
Famine
59
To change continually.
Fluctuate
60
To strengthen.
Fortify
61
A skeletal structure designed to support something.
Framework
62
Unnecessary; of little importance
Frivolous
63
Communication that is distorted and unclear.
Garbled
64
Pompous; overly important.
Grandiose
65
Overused and unoriginal.
Hackneyed
66
Lacking planning.
Haphazard
67
In a hurry.
Hasty
68
Something that causes delay or resistance.
Hindrance
69
To worsen.
Impair
70
To strongly suggest.
Imply
71
To force upon.
Impose
72
To reduce to poverty.
Impoverish
73
A reason to do something.
Incentive
74
Continuing without pause.
Incessant
75
A minor part.
Incidental
76
To urge on.
Incite
77
A preference.
Inclination
78
Untiring
Indefatigable
79
Not able to be challenged.
Indisputable
80
To guess based on evidence.
Infer
81
To hinder or restrain.
Inhibit
82
An investigation to determine the truth.
Inquiry
83
Necessary to complete the whole.
Integral
84
To combine.
Integrate
85
To explain the meaning of something.
Interpret
86
To come between people, objects, or an event and change what is happening.
Intervene
87
Fearless.
Intrepid
88
Highly detailed.
Intricate
89
Intrusive.
Invasive
90
Easy to anger.
Irascible
91
The use of words to give a meaning opposite to their literal meaning.
Irony
92
Uncertain.
Irresolute
93
Words specific to a certain job or group.
Jargon
94
Together.
Jointly
95
A special talent or skill.
Knack
96
To fall behind.
Lag
97
To mock or ridicule.
Lampoon
98
To become weak; to be neglected.
Languish
99
Wary.
Leery
100
Merciful; less harsh.
Lenient
101
Ridiculous.
Ludicrous
102
To fix.
Mend
103
Gloomy, depressed.
Morose
104
Lazy, neglectful.
Negligent
105
Indifferent, unexcited.
Nonchalant
106
To unfairly burden.
Oppress
107
A typical example of something.
Paradigm
108
Frugal, stingy.
Parsimonious
109
To join in.
Partake
110
Preferring one option over others.
Partial
111
Something existing in very small amounts; scarcity.
Paucity
112
Located on the side or edge.
Peripheral
113
To penetrate or pass through.
Permeate
114
To continue, especially when facing opposition.
Persist
115
Relate.
Pertain
116
A record of opinions or votes.
Poll
117
Powerful.
Potent
118
Practical, sensible. Down-to-earth.
Pragmatic
119
To come before.
Precede
120
Widespread.
Prevalent
121
Previous or earlier.
Prior
122
Offspring.
Progeny
123
To do well.
Prosper
124
Nearness in time or space.
Proximity
125
The distance between two things, often the maximum and the minimum.
Range
126
To sternly disapprove or reprimand.
Rebuke
127
To give a brief summary.
Recapitulate
128
To retreat.
Recede
129
To supervise or control a process so that it functions correctly.
Regulate
130
To strengthen with added support.
Reinforce
131
To express disapproval or disappointment.
Reproach
132
To feel bitterness or anger towards someone or something.
Resent
133
To come to a firm decision.
Resolve
134
To continue to do something or keep something.
Retain
135
1. To draw back in.
2. To withdraw something after it’s found to be untrue.
Retract
136
Used just for style or impact.
Rhetorical
137
Stiff; unyielding.
Rigid
138
Something that serves as protection or ensures safety.
Safeguard
139
To very carefully examine.
Scrutinize
140
Thinly scattered.
Sparse
141
To form a theory without strong evidence.
Speculate
142
Alone; without others.
Solitary
143
Gloomy; depressing.
Somber
144
To calm or comfort.
Soothe
145
Filthy and unpleasant.
Squalid
146
Sluggish, showing little movement.
Stagnant
147
Coming after something in time.
Subsequent
148
A person or thing acting in place of another.
Substitute
149
Difficult to notice right away.
Subtle
150
Enough to serve a particular purpose.
Sufficient
151
To take the place of something else.
Supplant
152
1. To temporarily stop.
2. To hang something from somewhere.
Suspend
153
Serving as a symbol.
Symbolic
154
Relating to a specific subject or craft.
Technical
155
Situated at the end.
Terminal
156
Changing from one state or condition to another.
Transition
157
1. See-through material.
2. Easy to detect.
Transparent
158
The fee for instruction at a school.
Tuition
159
Not attracting attention.
Unobtrusive
160
Unharmed.
Unscathed
161
Unfair.
Unjust
162
To waver or be indecisive.
Vacillate
163
A judgement or decision.
Verdict
164
A small trace of something that is disappearing or has already disappeared.
Vestige
165
A small container used to hold liquids.
Vial
166
To speak poorly of; to slander.
Vilify
167
Taking up a lot of space.
Voluminous
168
On the contrary.
Whereas
169
Completely.
Wholly
170
Occurring over a large region.
Widespread
171
To droop and become limp.
Wilt
