TOEFL Vocabulary

An art movement depicting subjects as geometric shapes

A car for hire that transports passengers for a fare

Sharp, bitter hostility in manner or speech

A primate of the family Hominidae, including humans and great apes

An organic compound such as fat or oil, insoluble in water; a key component of living cells

Manufactured in standard sections in a factory and assembled on site

A tree bearing dark berries; its fruit; a dark purplish-red colour

Free from flaws or faults; perfect

Something invented or imagined; a fantasy

Having great learning and knowledge; a highly scholarly person

Unwillingness or inability to believe something

A person or thing that saves lives or provides crucial help

Attractively suitable or flattering; the process of developing into something

Preserved as a fossil; rigidly old-fashioned and resistant to change

Covered with spines or thorns; troublesome or difficult

Requiring extraordinary strength or effort; extremely difficult

Physical weakness or illness, especially due to old age

The state of being timid; lack of courage or confidence

A secret code or coded message; the digit zero; a person of no importance

To produce sweat through the skin

A person who propels a canoe or kayak by paddling

A large fish-eating bird of prey found worldwide

A formal, ceremonial public speech

Resembling a marsh; wet and boggy

To add explanatory notes to a text

The ability of a material to conduct electricity, heat, or sound

The capacity or potential for development

Extremely thin and weak from illness or starvation

A large African or Asian mammal with thick skin and one or two horns

Fertility; ability to produce offspring or ideas

The ability or act of moving from one place to another

Having a rosy complexion; excessively ornate in style

To fraudulently steal money one has been trusted to manage

To shorten a word or text by omitting parts

To preserve a dead body using chemicals; to keep something from being forgotten

Stubbornly determined to have one's own way

To pay out money, especially from a fund

Causing strong disgust or hatred; deeply offensive

Farming and raising of livestock; careful management of resources

Shy and easily embarrassed

The distance between the tips of outstretched wings

To stir up or instigate trouble or unrest

Failing to achieve the intended result; unsuccessful

Providing good nutrition; nutritious

To remove frost or ice; to thaw

Generally believed or supposed to be something

Unpleasant to taste or accept; disagreeable

A substance added to food to give it flavor