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TOEFL Vocabulary: Level 5
agitate     Speak
 
(1)
v.  
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make empty; remove contents of
cause to move with violence or sudden force; upset; disturb
avoid deliberately; keep away from
send back; give up; surrender; resign; restore; transmit or send, especially as money in payment of a demand
tie with rope; fasten or restrict with rope or chain
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azure     Speak
 
(2)
a. or ad.  
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having slanting or sloping direction, course, or position; inclined
breathtaking; strikingly beautiful or attractive
able to produce the desired effect; valid
sky blue; light purplish-blue
evil in principle or practice; contrary to moral or divine law; addicted to vice or sin
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chasm     Speak
 
(3)
n.  
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the ordinary people who live in a particular country or place
a branch that flows into the mainstream; tending to bring about; being partly responsible for
the feeling of being bored by something tedious
deep opening in the earth surface
gladness and gaiety, especially when expressed by laughter
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crouch     Speak
 
(4)
v.  
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grieve or protest loudly and bitterly; express sorrow by a mournful vocal sound; moan; cry
shake with or as if with cold; tremble; break into fragments or splinters
bend down; stoop low; lie close to the ground with the legs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey or in fear
annoy; trouble; make agitated or nervous; fluster
part; separate or disunite; disengage
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destitute     Speak
 
(5)
a. or ad.  
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incapable of being described
naive and trusting; young; unsophisticated
physically weak; easily broken
extremely poor; utterly lacking; devoid
slavishly attentive; attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
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ensure     Speak
 
(6)
v.  
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make sure or certain; insure; assure
express or to feel grief or sorrow; grieve; be sorrowful
come or send forth from a source, used chiefly of an intangible thing, as light
burn without flame; be liable to break out at any moment
charm by sorcery; get control of by magical words and rites
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galley     Speak
 
(7)
n.  
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science of God or religion
state or feeling of weariness, diminished energy, or listlessness
a boat propelled by oars; a large vessel for war and national purposes
dim or intermittent flicker or flash of light; faint glow; shimmer
death notice; list of dead
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gullible     Speak
 
(8)
a. or ad.  
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easily deceived or cheated; easily tricked because of being too trusting
artificial; involving or of the nature of synthesis as opposed to analysis
timely; just in time; suited or right for a particular purpose
arising from feeling or assumption of one's superiority toward others
by or causing great merriment or happiness; gay or merry
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impromptu     Speak
 
(9)
a. or ad.  
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incapable of being described
difficult; stressful; narrow; not broad; tight; close; closely fitting
very dirty, foul; disgusting; nauseous
without previous preparation
having a harsh, rough, grating voice or sound, as when affected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound
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lark     Speak
 
(10)
v.  
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commence; go onboard a boat or airplane; begin a journey
inform; give notice to; make aware
cause; bring into existence; give rise to
any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae; one who wakes early
put to disorderly flight or retreat; drive out; cause to flee; defeat overwhelmingly
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lurid     Speak
 
(11)
a. or ad.  
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unfriendly; hostile; harmful; detrimental
causing shock or horror; gruesome
feeling or expressing deep regret for misdeeds
hateful; arousing strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure
awkward; lacking grace in movement or posture
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oblivious     Speak
 
(12)
a. or ad.  
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inattentive or unmindful; lacking all memory; forgetful
into separate parts or pieces; apart
having slanting or sloping direction, course, or position; inclined
causing, or tending to cause ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious
slow; sluggish; wasting time
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precept     Speak
 
(13)
n.  
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act of subdividing; an administrative division of a larger organization
rule or principle prescribing particular action or conduct; authorized direction or order
belt; a band that goes over the shoulder and supports a garment or bag
deep opening in the earth surface
island; spot within another of a different color
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quote     Speak
 
(14)
v.  
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rob of goods by force, especially in time of war; plunder; take as spoils
list each one; mention one by one
tear into pieces;  raise the fibers of
cite or repeat a passage from; repeat or copy the words of another
slumber; sleep lightly; be in dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; be drowsy
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reverie     Speak
 
(15)
n.  
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tender sorrow; pity; quality in art or literature that produces these feelings
something paid or given; payment to a person in consideration of past services
daydream; state of abstracted musing; absent-minded dreaming while awake
a person who retires from society and lives in solitude; anchoret, especially, one who so lives from religious motives
release of property or person in return for the payment of a demanded price; price paid for such release
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shimmer     Speak
 
(16)
v.  
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burn without flame; be liable to break out at any moment
shine with a weak or fitful light; glimmer intermittently
determine the nature of; give a definition; describe the nature or basic qualities of; explain
become solid; change from being a liquid or gas to a solid form
seize and hold  power or rights of another by force or without legal authority
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subordinate     Speak
 
(17)
a. or ad.  
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occupying lower rank; inferior; submissive
still in existence;  not destroyed, lost, or extinct
tending to improve; beneficial; favorable to health
unclear or doubtful in meaning
climbing; rising; increasing in size or value
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tease     Speak
 
(18)
v.  
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bend forward and down from the waist or the middle of the back
command against; banish;  not allow something
tear into pieces;  raise the fibers of
irritate or torment persistently; wear out; exhaust
appeal or request earnestly; enter a plea; offer as an excuse
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toss     Speak
 
(19)
v.  
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assign to obscure place, position, or condition; delegate; assign
throw carelessly; throw to see which side comes up; move or stir about violently
charm; enthrall; seize by force, as an enemy in war, or anything belonging to an enemy
assault; attack with or as if with violent blows
avoid deliberately; keep away from
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wail     Speak
 
(20)
v.  
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give praise to; glorify; celebrate or honor
grieve or protest loudly and bitterly; express sorrow by a mournful vocal sound; moan; cry
depart; leave a room, building, chair, so that it is available for other people
move or run rapidly or carelessly, lifting the fore and hind feet alternately, in successive leaps or bounds
pull or draw, especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something
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