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

anthem
 
 
(1)
n.  E.g. Let us now all join in singing the national anthem.
Select answer:
reliance; lack of independence or self-sufficiency
taxonomic group that is a division of a species
small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole
any of the short hairs fringing the edge of the eyelid
song of praise or patriotism; song of devotion or loyalty
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blink
 
 
(2)
v.  E.g. The TV announcer never seems to blink.
Select answer:
seek advice or information of; take into account; consider
remember; call back; cause to be returned
shut eyes briefly; wink
represent something in a dramatic manner; add details to
stop; bring to an end or halt
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desperately
 
 
(3)
ad.  E.g. What a night it was for Germany: a desperately close race between the two candidates for Chancellor, declarations of victory by both, then the figures turned slightly in favor of Gerhard Schroeder and the Greens.
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lacking vigor, force, or effectiveness; faint; frail
with great urgency; seriously; severely
wanting to get more than one can reasonably get
vertical; upright; intersecting at or forming right angles; extremely steep
done or undertaken of one's own free will; unforced
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excellent
 
 
(4)
a.  E.g. It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very neatly and simply arranged.
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smooth; being such as to cause things to slip or slide
surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense
unhurried; slow; taking abundant time
stately; royal; relating to a monarch
unhappy at being away and longing for familiar things or persons
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harness
 
 
(5)
n.  E.g. The biggest danger beside not wearing your harness is that you can't function properly.
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religious image; idol; important and enduring symbol
subsidy; transaction that provides funds for a business
toothed machine part, such as a wheel or cylinder, to transmit motion or to change speed or direction
stable gear consisting of an arrangement to an animal so that it can be attached to and pull a cart
substance having the consistency of semi-solid foods
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insight
 
 
(6)
n.  E.g. This insight is then applied to three prominent proposals.
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one that corresponds exactly to another, especially an original; identical copy; facsimile
understanding; grasping the inner nature of things intuitively
scene; site; place where something is or could be located
sequence; succession; continuous extent, succession, or whole
destroyed person, object, or building; debris
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memorable
 
 
(7)
a.  E.g. Some who did venture out into the snow were rewarded with the memorable sight of people making their way down Broadway on skis.
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unforgettable; worthy to be remembered; very important or remarkable
self-governing; not controlled by others or by outside forces; independent
sleeping; not active but capable of becoming active
struck with fear, dread, or consternation
salty; containing salt; of or relating to chemical salts
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percolate
 
 
(8)
v.  E.g. Light will percolate into our house in next morning.
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strike with or as if with a whip; beat or swing rapidly; drive or goad
unite closely or intimately; join together by heating
spread gradually; cause liquid to pass through small holes; filter
weave; interweave three or more strands
treat with fumes; apply smoke to; expose to smoke or vapor, especially to disinfect or eradicate pests
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proximity
 
 
(9)
n.  E.g. Blind people sometimes develop a compensatory ability to sense the proximity of objects around them.
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time each morning at which daylight first begins; beginning; start
tree with 10 - 40 meters tall; hard, dark brown wood of any of these trees
standard or scale of measurement; instrument for measuring or testing
several things grouped together or considered as a whole
state of being proximate; nearness in place, time, or relation
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rip
 
 
(10)
v.  E.g. The candidates rip into their opponents each other mercilessly.
Select answer:
serve as an example of; embody
spread out widely; scatter freely; pour out and cause to spread freely
repair or unite by using fusible metal alloy, usually tin and lead
run or ride at a steady slow trot; give a push or shake to
tear or be torn violently; criticize or abuse strongly and violently
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tariff
 
 
(11)
n.  E.g. It would give an indication of how far the trade liberalization would go but they would still have a heavy workload in negotiating detailed tariff cuts.
Select answer:
something happens without design; chance; hazard; risk; danger
way; footway; course or track; route; passage
silliness; words or signs having no intelligible meaning
token; figure on the bow of some sailing vessels
tax on goods coming into a country
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unbearable
 
 
(12)
a.  E.g. I wouldn't be sitting there because I'm in unbearable pain.
Select answer:
skilled; experienced; having many social graces; polished or refined
thorough; concentrated; tending to give force or emphasis
done or undertaken of one's own free will; unforced
relatively distant or remote from a center or middle
unendurable; so unpleasant, distasteful, or painful as to be intolerable
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