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 Test Questions
TOEFL Vocabulary: Level 1
ambivalence     Speak
 
(1)
n.  
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small opening; means of escape or release; outlet; hole for the escape of gas or air
wandering from the main path of a journey; diversion
a university student who has not yet received the first degree
resident; someone or thing who lives in a place
state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes, such as love and hate
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assure     Speak
 
(2)
v.  
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spread out; effuse; issue or emerge in rays or waves
stand up against; successfully resist; oppose with force or resolution
remove the surface from
sell at artificially low prices; throw away as refuse
tell someone confidently that something is true; guarantee; convince
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bound     Speak
 
(3)
n.  
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tied; held; committed; limit; constraint; leap; jump
relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur
a small instrument with four strings, played with a bow; a fiddle
trade; business; intellectual exchange or social interaction
traditional beliefs, myths, tales, and practices of a people, transmitted orally
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competition     Speak
 
(4)
n.  
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critical review or commentary, especially one dealing with works of art or literature
statue; creating figures or designs in three dimensions
struggle; rivalry; an act of competing as for a profit prize
remnant; remains of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age
deep wide ditch; ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water
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dependence     Speak
 
(5)
n.  
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rumor; malicious report about other people; light informal conversation for social occasions
stage; a raised horizontal surface
stiffness; the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending
reliance; lack of independence or self-sufficiency
unceremonious and disorganized struggle; rushing about hastily in an undignified way
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driftwood     Speak
 
(6)
n.  
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unmarried men; the first or lowest academic degree conferred by universities and colleges
treatment of pain or disease by inserting the tips of needles at specific points on the skin
work that a person is expected to do in a specified time
youth; adolescent; not fully grown or developed
wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore
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exhilarate     Speak
 
(7)
v.  
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cause to feel happily refreshed and energetic; fill with emotion
restrict to limited allotments, as during wartime; allot; distribute
run or ride at a steady slow trot; give a push or shake to
spend or expend wastefully; vanish by dispersion; drive away; disperse
stop; impede; shut out from view
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fossilized     Speak
 
(8)
a. or ad.  
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responsive to advise or suggestion; responsible to a higher authority; willing to comply with; agreeable
transient; brief; temporary; passing quickly
violent; not restrained or controlled
sound as if echoing in an empty space; void; vain; not solid; having space or gap or cavity
set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs
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immune     Speak
 
(9)
a. or ad.  
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hard, harsh, or severe in manner or character; firm or unyielding
remote from civilization; left desolate or empty; abandoned
unclear; vague; lacking precise limits
not wanting to take some action; averse
resistant to; free or exempt from; not subject to
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jagged     Speak
 
(10)
a. or ad.  
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thick; crowded closely together; compact
requiring sitting; involving little exercise or physical activity; living in one area, not migratory
scenic; striking or interesting in an unusual way
unevenly cut; having the texture of something so cut; having a rough quality
very cautious; on guard; watchful
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marine     Speak
 
(11)
a. or ad.  
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unlikely to harm or disturb anyone
sea-dwelling; maritime; naval
without consideration; despite everything; anyway
strikingly bright; shining with intense heat; emitting light as a result of being heated
serious; somber; deeply earnest, serious, and sober
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outgoing     Speak
 
(12)
a. or ad.  
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remaining without essential change
sociable; going out or away; departing
set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs
worthy of note or notice; remarkable; important
wonderful; extraordinarily good
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peculiar     Speak
 
(13)
a. or ad.  
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urgently needed; absolutely necessary; essential; acute; crucial; decisive
unluckily; by bad luck
special; characteristic; unusual; odd; bizarre
separately; individually; in the order given
widespread; widely or commonly occurring, existing, accepted
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provoke     Speak
 
(14)
v.  
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set or keep apart; disunite; divide; disconnect
scrape gently; feed on growing grasses and herbage
weed, cultivate, or dig up with a tool, which has a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
stir to anger; give rise to; stir to action or feeling
surpass; exceed; pass beyond the limits of
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recession     Speak
 
(15)
n.  
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someone who sees an event and reports what happened; observe; watch
state of being unable to pay your debts
withdrawal; retreat; time of low economic activity
section or quantity within a larger thing; a part of a whole
union; an act of melting together by heat
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rifle     Speak
 
(16)
n.  
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a separate religious body; faction united by common interests or beliefs
a wild plant growing where it is not wanted
small piece of metal, usually flat and circular, authorized by a government for use as money
shortage of food; starvation
shoulder firearm with a long barrel
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steep     Speak
 
(17)
v.  
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stand or rest; find support; take a stand and refuse to give way; be persistent
reverse; overthrow; upset something
show off oneself;  speak of with excessive pride
soak; make thoroughly wet
yield assent; accord; agree, or acquiesce; adapt one's self; fulfill; accomplish
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subtract     Speak
 
(18)
v.  
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supply what is needed or desired; provide food professionally for a special occasion
stand for; describe or present; play a role or part
restore to good condition; renew
mark with spots or lines, which are often colored; add notes to
remove a part from the whole
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unquestionably     Speak
 
(19)
a. or ad.  
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without question; beyond doubt
understandable; clear to the mind
having a shiny surface or coating; lacking liveliness, used of eyes; fitted or covered with glass
tiny; model that represents something in a greatly reduced size
timid; bashful; easily startled; distrustful
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wristwatch     Speak
 
(20)
n.  
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scene of any event or action; locality where a crime is committed, or a cause of action occurs
someone who drives a herd
watch worn on a band that fastens about the wrist
slight but noticeable partiality; line or surface that departs from the vertical
tool or instrument used in doing work; put into practical effect
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