TOEFL Vocabulary

Bold and willing to take risks; adventurous

Lacking reverence or respect towards a god or religion

Moving or directed backwards; reverting to a worse state; a person opposed to progress

A thousand times as great; by a factor of a thousand

Relating to the magnetic field of the Earth

Linking or joining two or more things together

Very lazy; disinclined to work or exert oneself

The geological era of dinosaurs, 252–66 million years ago

The quality of tasting or containing salt

The quality of being impractical or unworkable

Relating to or involving subtraction

To skip or frolic playfully; a playful frolic

The amount a train can carry; a large quantity

To make or become less dense or thinner

A person who flies in a balloon

To beat with a stick; to defeat decisively

Carefully planning and saving for the future

Not fertilized or inseminated

To wash or bathe; (of water) to flow against something

Relating to fire; (of rock) formed from cooled magma or lava

The full amount of cargo a ship can carry

Able to be stretched or shaped without breaking; easily influenced

Shameless boldness or insolent audacity

To treat with excessive sentiment; to become overly sentimental

Having keen judgment and wisdom; mentally shrewd

To kill or destroy as a sacrifice, especially by burning

The study or use of symbols

To delay or act evasively in order to gain time or avoid a decision

To morally corrupt; an episode of excessive indulgence

A tropical bird with a very large curved bill

One of two roughly equal parts or shares

To remove a monarch or leader from power

To manage or oversee an organization or system

Having a notched edge; set in from the margin

Rapid, confused speech; to talk fast and unclearly

Refusing to obey authority; rebellious

Excessive indulgence in tender or nostalgic feelings

To extend or prolong something in time

Searching for valuable minerals or resources

Having two legislative chambers or houses

A strict disciplinarian who demands rigid obedience to rules

Obscured by fog; unclear

To cause or become excessively tired

To confuse or muddle; rotten or muddled

To beat rapidly or strongly (of the heart); to tremble

Excessively formal and observant of ceremony or etiquette

The rigid outer layer of the Earth, divided into tectonic plates

Free from distortion; accurate