Hard TOEFL Words - Group 9

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n. a piece of land almost completely surrounded by water but joined to a larger mass of land

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v. baffle; confuse

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v. clutch; squeeze between the thumb and a finger, the jaws of a tool, or other edges

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n. axis; focus; center

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ad. clearly; expressly

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n. deposit of fatty material inside arteries

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n. a long rod; one of two divergent or mutually exclusive opinions

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n. person or organization that causes pollution of the environment; someone who makes unfit for or harmful to living things

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n. activity of making portraits; a word picture of a person's appearance and character

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a. having a possibility