TOEFL Vocabulary

To disturb someone's composure or confidence; to unsettle

Bravery; chivalrous and courteous behaviour towards women

The scholarly study of historical languages and texts

A circular or spiral turning motion

To excrete waste matter from the bowels

To make something inactive or unable to function

A person who patrols an area

A cover placed over a light bulb to soften or direct light

Awkward or lacking social grace; tactless

To make someone physically or mentally weak

Friendly and lively, especially at social gatherings

To make or become extremely thin and weak

To conceal one's true feelings or intentions; to feign

To shorten a text while keeping essential content; to curtail

A flat closed shape with three or more straight sides

To fill with great delight or joy; to captivate

To expose to radiation; to illuminate with light

Habitually lazy; (of a condition) slow-developing and painless

To accustom someone to something unpleasant through repeated exposure

Not allowing liquids or gases to pass through; waterproof

Loyalty and faithfulness owed to a lord or sovereign

To deny responsibility for or renounce a claim to something

The state of having a bad reputation

Salty like seawater; the sea

Free from deceit; honest but naive

Causing or deserving disgrace or shame; humiliating

Done quickly and efficiently

Silly, pointless, and self-satisfied; vacuously stupid

To delight intensely; to rape or seize by force

Emotionally moved; slightly mentally unbalanced

Relating to the Celsius temperature scale; the scale itself

Extreme greed for wealth

A person who hoards money and is extremely stingy

Abundant or excessive in quantity

To mix or blend together

To tear or split apart violently

Irritable and bad-tempered

To release soldiers from military service after a war

To record using a system of symbols or notation

Without equal; of the highest quality

To declare or admit something openly

Worthy of respect and admiration

A device that converts vapor to liquid; a capacitor; a focusing lens

The practice of drawing from diverse sources or doctrines

Treating serious matters with flippant humour

Abnormally sensitive to substances or stimuli; easily offended

Untanned animal hide; a leather whip

Extremely unwilling to spend money; very stingy