TOEFL Vocabulary

Relating to the sea, navigation, or shipping; coastal

To make someone familiar with a person or subject

To cause someone to suffer pain or distress

To darken skin in the sun; a light yellowish-brown colour; sun-darkened skin

To gather or accumulate a large amount of something over time

A poor, run-down urban neighborhood; to visit such an area

Rising to a very high level; flying high in the air

To travel across or pass through; a crossing route

An instrument for measuring temperature

A feeling of contempt or scorn; to regard with contempt

Physical or mental strength and energy

A forerunner or indicator of something to come; a chemical precursor

To move rapidly back and forth; to resonate

To give or pass on knowledge, a quality, or information

A fabric device that slows a fall from an aircraft; to descend by parachute

An exercise machine with a moving belt for walking or running in place; any monotonous, repetitive routine

Dissatisfaction with one's situation; feeling or causing unhappiness

Moving or happening quickly; rapid and without delay

The act of threatening or frightening someone

Marked with a stain; coloured with a dye

An unexpected obstacle; a sharp projection; to catch or tear on something sharp

Officially ordered or established by rules

Cleverly cunning or secretively mischievous

To secretly plan with others to do something harmful or illegal

To force someone out of a position or place

To attract or lure someone with something appealing

Happening or occurring repeatedly

Something that discourages action; serving to deter

An abnormally enlarged area on the body caused by injury or illness

Directly and firmly; in a straightforward manner

Innovative and groundbreaking; involving new methods or achievements

To completely destroy a building; to thoroughly defeat or disprove

Emitting light or heat; beaming with happiness

Relating to an orbit; an electron's probability region in an atom

The spine; a main support or structure; strength of character

Soft tissue inside bones; a large green vegetable

Covered with or containing a lot of grease; slippery

A loop of thread in sewing; a sharp side pain; to sew

To indicate or be a sign of; to mean literally

Completely lacking or without something

A cell protein that binds molecules to trigger responses; a sensory organ

Made up of various different kinds; mixed

To make or become rigid or less flexible

The difference in electrical potential between two points

To feel or cause deep sorrow, especially over a loss

Willing and open to receiving new ideas or suggestions

Straps fitted to an animal or person; to control and make use of something

Light fine rain; to rain lightly