TOEFL Vocabulary

Completing or enhancing each other; forming a whole together

To emit rays or spread outward from a centre

To inquire nosily into others' affairs; to force open with a lever

A religious group or sect; a unit of currency value; a name or designation

Showing kindness and compassion toward others

To refuse to deal with someone as protest; such a collective refusal

To remove surface matter from liquid; to glide over; to read quickly

Immediate understanding without conscious reasoning; a gut feeling

Familiar with something through habit; usual or customary

To calculate; to consider or believe something

Imposing limits or restrictions; confining

Unusual or odd in behaviour; a person with unconventional habits

To keep cool or fresh in a refrigerator

Kind, polite, and warmly courteous; an exclamation of surprise

Of or relating to a volcano; explosively intense

A continuous series where no part is sharply distinct from adjacent parts

A person who performs for or amuses an audience

To make more varied or expand into different areas

The measurement or quality of being thick

Attractive and hard to resist; enticing

To complain in a discontented way; a surly complaint

Careless and rash, without regard for consequences

A disadvantage or problem

Goods transported commercially; the cost of transporting them

Extremely bright or impressive; brilliantly splendid

Smooth and shiny; a magazine or photo printed on shiny paper

A large tailless primate; to imitate someone clumsily

A nocturnal flying insect related to the butterfly

A large inflow of people or things

Causing extreme fear; deeply frightening

A disadvantage or disability; to place at a disadvantage

Half of the Earth or a sphere

A person learning a trade under a skilled master

The process of absorbing; complete engrossment of the mind

Directed toward the outside; visible or apparent; toward the outside

Beyond natural laws; relating to forces that cannot be scientifically explained

To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion

A long heroic narrative poem; impressively grand or heroic

To tempt or lure someone into improper conduct or a sexual relationship

To fill with great wonder or surprise

To gently persuade or flatter someone into doing something

Relating to or influenced by emotions

To repair and improve a building or space

A heritable genetic change; any significant alteration

A wrong or injustice that causes resentment and complaint

A streak of light in the night sky caused by space matter burning up in the atmosphere; to move very fast

A person who personally sees an event; to personally observe an event

A microorganism such as a bacterium or virus that causes disease