TOEFL Vocabulary Test Online

This is a pure web app that evaluates your TOEFL vocabulary skills. The app has a built-in basic level TOEFL vocabulary of 1200 words, which can help you devise a vocabulary-building plan to prepare for the test.
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Vocabulary is an essential asset in English skills. TOEFL test takers have to build a strong vocabulary in preparation; otherwise, they have no chance of getting a good score on the examination. In the TOEFL test, there is no exclusive section to test your vocabulary level. However, all test sections, reading, writing, listening, and speaking, actually test vocabulary skills in separate ways. As in all language tests, without good vocabulary, skills cannot get a good mark.

TOEFL is for non-native English speakers who are planning to apply for universities or other academic purposes in the USA, Canada, and other English-speaking countries. For most of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students, English vocabulary is a shortcoming, and as an academic-oriented test, the TOEFL vocabulary is quite large. If you want to get a high score on the test, your vocabulary should generally be as large as 10,000 or more.

Many TOEFL test takers spend lots of time on building a strong and test-friendly vocabulary. They may have various English vocabulary bases and different TOEFL score expectations. No matter what contents, methods, or tools they use to build TOEFL vocabulary, knowing the actual vocabulary level and progress is a prerequisite to scheduling a plan and adjusting the pace.

This app's basic functionality is to create TOEFL vocabulary test sheets in random order. It has a built-in basic-level word list to power the online test. Like many similar online practice tools, it also includes some auxiliary features, such as saving test results and comparing them with historical data or even comparing them with others' test results to improve performance.
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anecdote
 
 
(1)
n.  E.g. Of all the millions who are moved by this historic occasion, while I am amongst these, my anecdote is and would be far less remarkable.
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social or moral custom; formal meeting of members, representatives, or delegates; agreement between states
tax on goods coming into a country
stress; tension; condition of being pressed
small room on a ship or boat where people sleep
short account of amusing or interesting event; short narrative; secret story of history or biography
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below
 
 
(2)
ad.  E.g. All she could see, when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay far below her.
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under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; inferior to in rank; unworthy of
unable to help oneself; powerless or incompetent; powerless; weak
unevenly cut; having the texture of something so cut; having a rough quality
having many small waves; rough with small waves
unexpected; unforeseen
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congruity
 
 
(3)
n.  E.g. There must be, in spite of all indifference and hostility of nature to human interests, some congruity of nature with man or life could not exist.
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one that is not yet fully developed; sprout
freight carried by a ship, an aircraft, or another vehicle
sacrificing; giving up; state of having rejected your religious beliefs
section or quantity within a larger thing; a part of a whole
relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency.
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exhausting
 
 
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a.  E.g. Apart from me being stupid, New York in summer is warm and exhausting, which is a new experience for me.
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tending to exhaust, enfeeble, or drain the strength
unsuitable; disqualified by law, rule, or provision; unworthy of being chosen
saw-like; having a row of sharp or tooth-like projections
resistant to; free or exempt from; not subject to
without alteration or misrepresentation
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glimpse
 
 
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v.  E.g. Every morning I glimpse at the headlines of newspaper in car.
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see briefly; catch sight of
respire; inhale and exhale air
remember; call back; cause to be returned
set or arrange in a new or different determinate position; cause to turn
renovate; make bright by polishing
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hypothesize
 
 
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v.  E.g. They hypothesize that small size may have facilitated the rapid diversification among domestic dog breeds.
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spread or flow throughout; pervade
ruin; lay waste; destroy; make desolate
state clearly; make known formally or officially
give variety to; spread out activities or investments
speculate; suppose; believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
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medieval
 
 
(7)
a.  E.g. Pat Wallace, the director of the National Museum of Ireland, called the first discovery of an early medieval document in two centuries "a miracle find".
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remote; secluded; placed or standing apart or alone
relying on or requiring the aid of another for support
restricting according to rules or principles
showing a natural gift for something
very old-fashioned; as if belonging to the Middle Ages
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precarious
 
 
(8)
a.  E.g. But that is why NASA used test pilots, men used to handling life and death decisions in precarious situations and instantly making the right choice.
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with great urgency; seriously; severely
uncertain; risky; dangerously lacking in security or stability
responsive to advice or suggestion; responsible to higher authority; willing to comply with; agreeable
selling of goods to consumers
under the level of the ground; buried
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rebel
 
 
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v.  E.g. They decide to rebel at the unwelcome suggestion.
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sway; walk as if unable to control one's movements
revolt; resist or defy an authority; break with established customs
speak clearly and distinctly; utter a speech sound; be jointed; make clear or effective
throw with great force; cast; toss
spread or flow throughout; pervade
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sentimentalism
 
 
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n.  E.g. Along with a new vision of love, sentimentalism presented a new view of human nature which prized feeling over thinking, passion over reason, and personal instincts over social duties.
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idea or expression marked by excessive sentiment; liking for sentimental things
tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears
tedium; dullness; state of being a bore, or the tendency to become tiresome and uninteresting
scarcity; lack or shortage, especially of something essential to health
support; mainstay; vertebrate spine or spinal column
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stem
 
 
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v.  E.g. They all hoped that he managed to stem the rebellion in two weeks.
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stop flow of a liquid; make headway against
twist out of proper or natural relation of parts; misshape; misrepresent
substitute; put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
restrict to limited allotments, as during wartime; allot; distribute
stir up; urge; goad to action; incite
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tycoon
 
 
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n.  E.g. A new trial of the jailed former oil tycoon is set to begin Tuesday.
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substance having the consistency of semi-solid foods
visual representation; representation of a person
sponsorship; support; state of being a sponsor
tenant; one that occupies a position or place
wealthy and powerful businessperson or industrialist; magnate
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