TOEFL Vocabulary

A person who supervises or manages; a senior police rank

Relating to sight, vision, or optics

An animal hunted for food; a victim of exploitation

An official examination of accounts; to inspect records for accuracy

To knock against something; a jolting collision; a rounded swelling

Strange or unusual; belonging exclusively to one person or place

Repeatedly and frequently; without apparent interruption

A person who formally applies for something

Not present; inattentive; to keep oneself away

A device enabling computers to communicate over telephone lines

Relating to concepts or ideas

To restore to original condition; to extend or continue something such as a contract

To care for and develop; the environmental influences on a person's growth

Producing clear, powerful images; very bright in color

Causing fear or alarm; scary

A set of keys for operating a computer or musical instrument; to type on a keyboard

A harmful or lethal substance; to kill or harm with poison

A person who pays rent to use property owned by another

Extremely angry; violent or intense

Without doubt; certainly

Full of rocks; unstable or unsteady

To leave out or exclude something

An eight-legged predatory arthropod that spins webs

A compulsive, unhealthy preoccupation with something or someone

The dead body of a human being

Slightly wet; to make moist or reduce intensity

The process of taking in food for growth and health; the study of food

A sequence of notes forming a tune

A negatively charged subatomic particle orbiting the atomic nucleus

Well-known and respected for great achievements; dignified in appearance

A scientist who specializes in physics

The soft hair of sheep used to make yarn or fabric

Completely and absolutely

To grow crops; to develop or nurture something

Great comfort and wealth; something expensive and not essential; very high quality

The act of becoming aware of something; making something real

The act of getting rid of something; the power to use something freely

To openly resist or refuse to obey; to challenge

Relating to magic; wonderfully enchanting

To entice or attract someone toward something, especially something wrong

A small leftover piece; waste material; to discard as useless

A formal or emphatic statement or official announcement

To force fluid into the body; to introduce something new

A line around which something rotates or is arranged; a coordinate line

A large rectangular piece of luggage used for carrying clothes when travelling

In equal amounts or in a smooth, balanced manner

Having two parts or aspects; double

To watch over and direct people or work