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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backbone
 
 
(1)
n.  E.g. The people will have to put the bone back in backbone for state leaders.
Select answer:
someone who takes spoils or plunder; one who despoils or strips by force; plunderer
support; mainstay; vertebrate spine or spinal column
warning serves; alarm; condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action
severe trial; form of trial to determine guilt or innocence; difficult or painful experience
stable gear consisting of an arrangement to an animal so that it can be attached to and pull a cart
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commerce
 
 
(2)
n.  E.g. The underlying objective is to make international commerce easier and cheaper and to boost incomes around the world.
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act of working together; act of cooperating with an enemy, especially it occupying one's own country
side of an object that is opposite its front; hind part; point or area farthest from the front
trade; business; intellectual exchange or social interaction
wonder; strong surprise; astonishment
one of the vessels or tubes which carry either venous or arterial blood from the heart; major transit corridor
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dehydrated
 
 
(3)
a.  E.g. Fever resulted from becoming dehydrated.
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employing or showing humor; funny; amusing
slightly wet; damp or humid
surprising; shocking
unoriginal; derived from another source
suffering from excessive loss of water
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elaborately
 
 
(4)
ad.  E.g. Before the trial, he mailed off all his court documents to family members in elaborately decorated envelopes.
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unendurable; so unpleasant, distasteful, or painful as to be intolerable
with elaboration; in elaborate manner; with elaboration; with nice regard to exactness
wise or keen; shrewd; with sharp intelligence
supposed to be true; reasonable as a supposition
stimulating or exalting to the spirit
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filter
 
 
(5)
n.  E.g. This filter is able to detect invalid clicks in real-time, with the goal of removing them before they ever show up in the AdWords console.
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severe trial; form of trial to determine guilt or innocence; difficult or painful experience
scarcity; shortage of food; famine from failure or loss of crops
smoothness or shininess of surface or finish; elegance of style or manners; refinement
strain; pass liquid or gas through device that blocks some matter by particular criterion
any form of art that borrows from multiple other styles
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inaugurate
 
 
(6)
v.  E.g. The airline decided to inaugurate its new route to the Far East with a special reduced fare offer.
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start; initiate; induct into office by formal ceremony
ascribe a particular fact or characteristic to; consider; suppose
renew; repair; return to life
unlawfully enter boundaries of some else's property; commit an offense or a sin
thread a cord through the eyelets or around the hooks of; add a touch of flavor to
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literally
 
 
(7)
ad.  E.g. The word literally translates to 'dispeller of darkness,' or 'one who brings light.'
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urgently needed; absolutely necessary; essential; acute; crucial; decisive
continuous, without interruption; intact
unevenly cut; having the texture of something so cut; having a rough quality
thorough; including all or everything; broad in scope
with meaning; word for word; letter by letter
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pound
 
 
(8)
n.  E.g. But fifty cents a pound is a thousand dollars a ton.
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stream; flow; up-to-date; present
unit of weight equal to 16 ounces
something proposed; act of making a proposal; an offer of marriage
result; relation of a result to its cause; logical conclusion or inference
stick of colored wax or chalk, used for drawing
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residue
 
 
(9)
n.  E.g. The presence of plastic residue is nothing more than an indication of possible doping.
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sharp projection from fishhook; openly cutting remark
small and economical car; small cosmetics case
sequence; act of moving forward toward a goal
tier; a relatively thin sheet like expanse or region lying over or under another
remainder of something after removal of parts or a part; balance
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solemn
 
 
(10)
a.  E.g. Finally, his expression solemn, he replied, You are a complex woman, Annabel, despite the fact that you sometimes behave like an impulsive child.
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unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness; insensible to distresses of others; unyielding
serious; somber; deeply earnest, serious, and sober
showing emotional affliction or disquiet; frequently visited by a ghost
wandering; moving from place to place; unsettled
sentimental; passionate; excitable; easily moved
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squarely
 
 
(11)
ad.  E.g. We should learn to face a problem squarely if we hope to solve it quickly.
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subject to question; admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry
wide; generous or large in area or extent; sizable
solidly; in a straight direct way; in a square shape
widespread; far-reaching; wide
weak; lacking firmness
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unfortunately
 
 
(12)
ad.  E.g. I want a smoke, Jane, to comfort me under all this; and unfortunately I have neither my cigar-case, nor my snuff-box.
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unluckily; by bad luck
thorough; including all or everything; broad in scope
reluctant; disinclined; turned away or backward; unwilling
salty; any very large body of salt water
very small; model that represents something in a greatly reduced size
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