Hard TOEFL Words - Group 8

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n. danger; a threat or the act of threatening; something that is a source of danger; threaten; intimidate


Spelling Word: menace
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n. error in naming a person or place; name wrongly or unsuitably applied to a person or an object


Spelling Word: misnomer
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ad. in moderate or limited size, quantity, or range; not extremely


Spelling Word: modestly
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n. a loosely tangled bunch or mass; a dense head of hair


Spelling Word: mop
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n. act of being altered or changed; a change of the DNA sequence within a gene


Spelling Word: mutation
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n. biologist knowledgeable about natural history


Spelling Word: naturalist
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a. adverse; involving disadvantage or harm; pessimistic


Spelling Word: negative
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a. characteristic of a revival of an earlier classical style


Spelling Word: neoclassical
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a. amateur; not professional


Spelling Word: nonprofessional
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n. belief or opinion


Spelling Word: notion