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.
Demo Test Sheet

allegation
 
 
(1)
n.  E.g. The allegation has angered the Brazilian authorities and has been strongly denied.
Select answer:
trip; usually short journey made for pleasure
running at the pace of a slow run for exercise
secretary whose main duty is to answer the telephone and receive visitors
wood; lumber; trees or wooded land considered as a source of wood
suggestion without proof that someone has done something wrong
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complementary
 
 
(2)
a.  E.g. John and Lisa's skills are complementary; he's good at following a daily routine, while she's great at handling emergencies.
Select answer:
state of being held in high esteem and honor
now and then; from time to time; infrequently; irregularly
serving to fill out or to complete; supplying mutual needs or offsetting mutual lacks
self-indulgent; moral decay
unbalanced; uneven
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convenience
 
 
(3)
n.  E.g. The popularity of convenience foods means that many people no longer eat enough fresh produce.
Select answer:
story; imaginative creation; literary work whose content is produced by imagination
worker; person who works for another in return for financial or other compensation
state of being suitable
compulsive, often unreasonable idea or emotion
youth; adolescent; not fully grown or developed
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diversified
 
 
(4)
a.  E.g. He presented this paper to answer what a diversified investment is.
Select answer:
treated against rusting; resistant to rust, oxidation and corrosion
serving to instruct of enlighten or inform; enlightening
varied; distinguished by various forms, or by a variety of objects
special; characteristic; unusual; odd; bizarre
very unpleasant; distasteful or shocking
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flyspeck
 
 
(5)
n.  E.g. The flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy.
Select answer:
first light of day; first advent or appearance
idea or expression marked by excessive sentiment; liking for sentimental things
very small; minute or insignificant spot
tiny American bird having brilliant iridescent plumage and long slender bills
framed section of window or door that is filled with a sheet of glass or others; panel in a wall or door
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inactivate
 
 
(6)
v.  E.g. The cost to inactivate and dispose of a nuclear carrier is estimated at 887 million.
Select answer:
release from military service or remove from the active list of military service
weed, cultivate, or dig up with a tool, which has flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
steer; direct; follow a planned course on, across, or through
soak, fill, or load to capacity; cause to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance
stop flow of a liquid; make headway against
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merit
 
 
(7)
n.  E.g. I believe that giving work based on gender and not on merit is sexism.
Select answer:
virtue; admirable quality or attribute; credit
summit; apex; maximum; prime
structure that gives shape or support; closed, often rectangular border of drawn or printed lines
a span of one thousand years; a thousandth anniversary
stage for drying fish; rack for storing
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outcome
 
 
(8)
n.  E.g. South Africa praised the outcome of the election as another indication of Africa's growing commitment to multi-party democracy.
Select answer:
lack of trust or confidence
rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course
result; end or consequence; result of a random trial
wandering from the main path of a journey; diversion
renewal; growth of lost or destroyed parts or organs
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provoke
 
 
(9)
v.  E.g. Today, another American legend, Mark Twain, celebrated for the power of his language and his ability to delight and provoke, is also under attack.
Select answer:
see briefly; catch sight of
strengthen; magnify; increase the contrast of
weaken by wearing away base or foundation; injure or impair; dig a mine or tunnel beneath
stir to anger; give rise to; stir to action or feeling
weave; interweave three or more strands
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slumber
 
 
(10)
n.  E.g. He is calm as a child in dreamless slumber.
Select answer:
style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model
silvery ductile metallic element
sleep; state of inactivity or dormancy
strain; pass liquid or gas through device that blocks some matter by particular criterion
turning or bending of any wave, such as light or sound wave, when it passes from one medium into another of different optical density
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stagger
 
 
(11)
v.  E.g. The two drunken men stagger into the room.
Select answer:
restrain; keep within close bounds; confine
sweat; excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin
request earnestly; seek to obtain by persuasion or formal application
make impure or unclean by contact or mixture; pollute; defile
sway; walk as if unable to control one's movements
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ultraviolet
 
 
(12)
a.  E.g. Glass is almost perfectly opaque to deep ultraviolet, which is why it's hard to get a tan through a window.
Select answer:
two-sided; mutual
wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays
remaining without essential change
salty; containing salt; of or relating to chemical salts
unreachable; not available; unattainable
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