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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appointment
 
 
(1)
n.  E.g. Mr. Straw’s appointment as Foreign Secretary has triggered speculation in London about the Prime Minister’s motives for the change.
Select answer:
act of putting a person into a non-elective position; arrangement
two words that express opposing concepts; contrariwise; directly facing each other
very small; minute or insignificant spot
region; territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing; division of territory
short thin stick of wood used in making matches
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colonize
 
 
(2)
v.  E.g. Portuguese attempts to colonize Asia were generally unsuccessful, though it did retain major colonies in Africa until the mid-twentieth century.
Select answer:
take on; embark on; assume
work out with care and detail; develop thoroughly
trade goods or services without the exchange of money
tire excessively; fatigue to exhaustion
migrate to and settle in; plant
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dart
 
 
(3)
v.  E.g. Your eyes take them in, then dart away to something else.
Select answer:
move suddenly and rapidly
request earnestly; seek to obtain by persuasion or formal application
save money or resource; cut back; be thrifty
urge a horse; incite or stimulate; ride quickly by spurring a horse; proceed in haste
solidify; guarantee; convince
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exemplary
 
 
(4)
a.  E.g. But the official Miss America website stresses you performed all your duties in exemplary fashion before you gave up the crown.
Select answer:
wandering; moving from place to place; unsettled
serving as model; outstanding; typical
unintelligible; difficult to understand
substantially; significantly; to a degree worth considering
tasting sour like acid; being or containing an acid
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helpless
 
 
(5)
a.  E.g. Alice could see it trying in a helpless sort of way to fly up into a tree.
Select answer:
sticky; gluey; having high resistance to flow
extremely bad; terrible; dreadful
set down as a rule or guide; certain; stated
unable to help oneself; powerless or incompetent; powerless; weak
with the side forward; to or from a side
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jagged
 
 
(6)
a.  E.g. "Especially him," a Mask shouted, pointing at a man with a jagged red line on his chest.
Select answer:
under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; inferior to in rank; unworthy of
unhappy at being away and longing for familiar things or persons
without question; beyond doubt
responsive to advice or suggestion; responsible to higher authority; willing to comply with; agreeable
unevenly cut; having the texture of something so cut; having a rough quality
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miracle
 
 
(7)
n.  E.g. "The main miracle is that with money or no money, we have life," said Yadira Rivera.
Select answer:
official approbation; endorsement; act of approving
wonderful thing; something that excites admiration or astonishment
the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros
sequence; succession; continuous extent, succession, or whole
substance having the consistency of semi-solid foods
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pebble
 
 
(8)
n.  E.g. For the next moment a shower of little pebble came rattling in at the window, and some of them hit her in the face.
Select answer:
something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts
violent rotating windstorm
swamp; bog; low lying wet land with grassy vegetation
small smooth rounded rock
secret code; an Arabic numeral or figure; a number
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respond
 
 
(9)
v.  E.g. Doctors hope his cancer to respond to the aggressive therapy.
Select answer:
show a reaction to something favorably or as hoped
worsen; make worse or more troublesome
walk unsteadily or feebly; stagger; sway, as if about to fall
speak clearly and distinctly; utter a speech sound; be jointed; make clear or effective
press between opposing bodies so as to break or injure; extract or obtain by pressing or squeezing
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shell
 
 
(10)
v.  E.g. There are many jobs you can help, shell oysters or peas, please.
Select answer:
remove from husk; separate kernels from cob; defeat decisively; hit the pitches of hard and regularly
wear out completely; tire; drain of resources or properties; deplete; use up completely
treat with fumes; apply smoke to; expose to smoke or vapor, especially to disinfect or eradicate pests
sink; immerse; put under water
terminate; make a break in
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terminate
 
 
(11)
v.  E.g. The attack would terminate the relatively peaceful period after cold war.
Select answer:
wither; decrease in size; become or make shrunken and wrinkled, often by drying
show a reaction to something favorably or as hoped
support; sustain; carry; have; yield; give birth; hold up or support
live as a resident; exist in a given place or state
stop; bring to an end or halt
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unpack
 
 
(12)
v.  E.g. I unpack the presents at birthday party.
Select answer:
take away a vital or essential part of
unwrap; unfold; remove the contents of
take on; embark on; assume
stabilize; fix; cause to be unable to move
examine or go over carefully for needed repairs; make extensive renovations or revisions on; renovate
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