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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accomplished
 
 
(1)
a.  E.g. More poems should tell stories in accomplished ways.
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tending to exhaust, enfeeble, or drain the strength
skilled; experienced; having many social graces; polished or refined
unjust; contrary to laws or conventions, especially in commerce
unendurable; so unpleasant, distasteful, or painful as to be intolerable
resulting; following as a logical conclusion
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bolster
 
 
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v.  E.g. The debaters amassed file boxes full of evidence to bolster their arguments.
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make or keep safe from danger, attack, or harm
search blindly or uncertainly; reach about uncertainly; feel one's way
restore to good condition; renew
move suddenly and rapidly
support or prop up with or as if with a long narrow pillow or cushion
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comprehensive
 
 
(3)
a.  E.g. Mr. Skubel has since completed what he describes as a comprehensive two-week training program and is now setting up his franchise in his hometown.
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thorough; including all or everything; broad in scope
understandable; clear to the mind
sociable; going out or away; departing
serving to instruct of enlighten or inform; enlightening
theoretical; not concrete; not applied or practical; difficult to understand
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emigrant
 
 
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n.  E.g. They want to check the databases of passenger lists and emigrant ships.
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wonderful thing; something that excites admiration or astonishment
resolute adherence to your own ideas; being difficult to handle or overcome
profession or occupation; individual’s work and life roles over their lifespan
someone who leaves one country to settle in another
ultimate goal; place to which one is going or directed
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fleeting
 
 
(5)
a.  E.g. Sometimes, for a fleeting moment, I thought I caught a glance, heard a tone, beheld a form, which announced the realization of my dream.
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transient; brief; temporary; passing quickly
unalterable; irreversible; impossible to retract or revoke
unwise to implement or maintain in practice; theoretical
following one after another without interruption; sequential
tiresome by reason of length, slowness, or dullness; progressing very slowly
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justly
 
 
(6)
ad.  E.g. We ask you to govern fairly and justly, fight corruption and fulfill human rights.
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too old to be fashionable, suitable, or useful; obsolete; aged
utterly; definitely
with honesty; rightfully; fairly
stately; royal; relating to a monarch
thinly; in a scattered or sparse manner; scantily; widely apart, as regards population
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medium
 
 
(7)
n.  E.g. Certainly Shostakovich was lucky to work in a wordless abstract medium, where interpretation is strongly subjective.
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sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit
shell; outer covering; remove the husk from
state that is intermediate between extremes
victim; object of hunt; hunted animal
building, especially one of imposing appearance or size; a structure that has a roof and walls
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polarize
 
 
(8)
v.  E.g. The abortion issue will polarize the country into pro-choice and anti-abortion camps.
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make and administer the public policy and affairs of
split into opposite extremes or camps
remove from husk; separate kernels from cob; defeat decisively; hit the pitches of hard and regularly
stir up; urge; goad to action; incite
try to stir up public opinion; promote growth of; apply warm lotion to
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reed
 
 
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n.  E.g. The grass would be only rustling in the wind, and the pool rippling to the waving of the reed.
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something happens without design; chance; hazard; risk; danger
supplying water to the land to help crops grow
someone on patrol duty; an individual or a member of a group that patrols an area
solemn promise; commitment to tell the truth
tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems
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solitude
 
 
(10)
n.  E.g. She learns that she can feel happiness in solitude, at least for a period of time.
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state of being alone; seclusion; lonely or secluded place
one of the vessels or tubes which carry either venous or arterial blood from the heart; major transit corridor
toll highway; an expressway on which tolls are collected
study of origin and nature of ideas
understanding; grasping the inner nature of things intuitively
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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.
Select answer:
stop flow of a liquid; make headway against
show clearly and deliberately; manifest; confirm; prove
unite a shoot or bud with a growing plant by insertion or by placing in close contact; join plants by such union; join or unite closely
restore to proper condition; help to re-adapt, as to former state of health or good repute
restrain; keep within close bounds; confine
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violin
 
 
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n.  E.g. The violin string snapped because it was fastened too tight.
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small instrument with four strings, played with a bow; a fiddle
someone who explores an area for mineral deposits
type or class; a kind of literary or artistic work
state of being preoccupied; absorption of the attention or intellect
wonder; state of extreme surprise or wonder; astonishment
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