Hard TOEFL Words - Group 2

n. creek; stream

n. short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience

n. someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence

n. clump; cluster; gathering

v. to develop or grow rapidly

n. confusion of activity and gossip; sound of rapid vibration

n. a signaling device that makes a buzzing sound

v. to avoid by using an alternative channel or route

n. a woodworker who specializes in making furniture;

v. compute; determine; estimate

n. adjustment; measurement

n. act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement

a. careful; pleasant; shrewd

n. covering; umbrella

n. narrow chasm with steep cliff walls, cut into the earth by running water; a gorge

n. crime, especially theft, or a narrative about such a crime

v. overturn or cause to overturn; turn over or upset

n. small container; spacecraft to transport people in outer space

n. state or period of being imprisoned, confined, or enslaved

a. chief; serving as an essential component