TOEFL 100 Vocabulary 57 words YOU NEED to KNOW to pass the TOEFL test

need to score 30 out of 30 on the too reading and listening sections but have no idea how to do it in my one-on-one sessions have lots of students who struggle with the toal of reading and listening tests and I've noticed that one of the reasons they can get high scores is that their vocabulary is limited one thing you can do is study subject specific vocabulary for topics like biology psychology physics astronomy and more this will definitely help you understand understand the text and lectures better but is that all not really after studying tons of total practice tests I've noticed that there are certain words that appear very often in Reading passages and lectures and they don't belong to any specific subject these are the words that you will often find in academic articles and texts and these are the words you'll usually need to answer questions on the TOEFL reading and listening sections so in this video have collected 57 of the most common words you'll see on the total reading and listening sections that will help you get the score you want don't forget to subscribe to our channel to get more tips and tricks about the test and click the Bell icon to be notified when the next video comes out let's see how ready you are for the toal test take piece of paper and make two columns in one column put plus for the words you know in the second column put minus and write the word itself to Mark the words you don't know at the end of this video write winner in the comments if you know all the words or tell us how many words from the list you know for example 26 out of 57 or 50 out of 57 let's get started one commodity this word is super popular on the TOEFL and often see it in the reading passages what's more important it's often necessary to answer the questions so commodity is any useful or valuable thing especially something that you can buy or sell like food clothes or Electronics so coffee grains or precious metals are all examples of Commodities I've just seen this word mentioned few times in two random reading passages so it's really common for the total reading two exploit if you use someone or something usually selfishly or for profit you'll exploit them Factory owners can exploit their employees making them work over time so to exploit is to use something or somewhat unfairly for your own benefit on the tol however you'll often see this word used in slightly different sense it usually means to make good use of something for example to exploit natural resources the next word in our list is cultivate the original meaning of this word is to prepare and use land for crops or gardening so you'll often see it used in text and lectures about agriculture people can cultivate Fields Gardens or land this word can also mean to develop or improve something such as skill or relationship four demise demise is the end of something it can be the end of person's life or anything else we often use this word in medical or legal language or one would want to sound formal on the tol you'll often see this word used to describe the final stage of something for example the demise of company or the demise of relationship five Prosperity another Super popular word on the tol test that see all the time Prosperity usually means being successful especially financially in the US the decades after World War II were characterized by Rising Prosperity with large numbers of people moving into the middle class the adjective prosperous is also very typical for the tful reading and listening sections it means financially successful speaking of the word decade from the example just gave this is our next word decade is period of 10 years we have decade 10 years century 100 years and millennium 1,000 years we actually have an entire course dedicated to toal preparation where we teach you all the words you need to know to score consistently high on each section of the test we have lists of words organized by topic templates for Effective speaking and writing responses strategies for each question type and more I'll leave the link to the course below another important word to know is alteration alteration means change or ification the verb to alter means to make something different or to change something such as altering plan or altering law remember three words with similar meaning to alter to modify to change you'll often need them for the total reading eight intermittently can tell you how many times they see this word it's fancy way of saying from time to time periodically the adverb intermittently describes something that starts then stops and then starts up again if you studied intermittently last night it means that sometimes you studied but sometimes you took breaks to do other things phrase with similar meaning is off and on we came across it just recently in one of our reading videos this phrase means that something happens periodically like working off and on or visiting off and on on so remember off and on or intermittently mean at intervals not continuously 10 extensive for some reason this is one of the favorite words of the toal creators they use it in practically every reading passage or lecture I've ever worked with and believe me there have been many the first and the most popular reading is covering large area for example if extensive Road repairs extensive grounds or extensive agriculture so imagine something that covers large area that's extensive extensive can also mean having great range if you knowledge of the toal test is extensive you know lot about it if an event gets extensive coverage in the newspapers it means many people are writing about it next is the word sophisticated when something is sophisticated it's complicated and intricate the inner workings of computer are sophisticated it's difficult to understand them unless you're computer expert high school math is lot more sophisticated than grammar school math driving car is more sophisticated than riding bike on the TOEFL you'll often find mentions of sophisticated computer models sophisticated systems or sophisticated tools used by Asian people 12 diverse various very different it's another common word that pops up in almost every passage diverse means that something has many different parts or elements such as diverse culture or diverse Wildlife 13 abruptly subtly or without warning 14 result in to cause something to happen for example High economic growth results in higher inflation 15 mild not severe or intense we often use mild when talking about the weather or climate mild weather isn't too cold or too hot this is the meeting that's most popular on the tofl test however this word can also be used in other areas for example mild criticism not severe mild heart attack not too serious ious the next group of words have similar meanings they are drastically dramatically and spectacularly see all three of them all the time both in the reading and listening on the toofold they usually mean extremely or lot for example their budget has been drastically reduced reduced lot the nature of conflict has changed dramatically has changed lot this attempt failed spectacularly significantly failed 19 tolerate to accept or put up with something you can tolerate noise or person some people don't tolerate rude Behavior 20 threat an impending danger that has the potential to cause serious harm toll for reading passages usually have many examples of threats such as enemy threats Health threats death threats and so on popular cocation is imminent threat it's synonym for impending danger one more very common word on both the reading and listening sections of the toal is decline to decline means to decrease or diminish in quantity or quality we use it when something is getting smaller or worse for example decline of business or the decline of population 22 coers to Force someone to do something against their will you can coer person to do something or coer decision or confession from person again just recently saw this word in one of the reading passages we were doing in one-onone session with my student 23 Retreat to go away from place or person to escape from fighting or danger the tol likes to use this word in variety of contexts you can find information about lizards retreating into the shade or retreating shares of company we can even find it in the integrated speaking questions for example question three may be about psychological term in which the speaker understands that their proposals were clearly unreasonable and is forced to retreat so expect to see this word in many contexts 24 initially in the beginning at first 25 eventually in the end especially after long time or lot of effort similar word that is often given as paraphrase for the word eventually is ultimately it means finally after series of things have happened for example the company ultimately succeeded or the company ultimately failed 27 rival few days ago one of my students made mistake in the reading passage because she didn't know this word so decided to include it in today's list arrival is person or thing that competes with another so it's synony for the word competitor the question she had was the sentence simplification question about terrestrial plans that had the advantages of not having rivals in the text there was line about the land of opportunity free of competitors because she didn't know the word she couldn't find the right answer this is typical example of why you should know synonyms otherwise you'll waste time when answering the questions and you may make mistakes 28 data information 29 conventional usual traditional ordinary it's super popular word that I've also seen used in vocabulary questions also see it lot in the toal reading passages you can find information about conventional explanation of something conventional farming conventional medicine or weapons 30 suede to replace or surpass something some common cations are suped law supered record let's look at typical sentence you might see on the TOEFL test they still used stone tools similar to those superseded in Europe by metal tools thousands of years ago superseded replaced as you can see the most effective way to remember all these new and difficult words is to think of simpler synonyms for them that you already know that way the next time you see the word supersede you'll remember the word replace and we know what it means another Super popular word decided to include in this list is fossils this word means remains or impressions of ancient plants or animals fossils look like this you'll often find lectures and texts about fossils of dinosaurs again see this word all the time and you just have to know it 32 flourish to grow or develop successfully just as your Tomatoes can flourish in the summer countries companies cultural life the ship building industry computer technology and lots of other things and spheres can flourish people can also flourish which means that they are successful remember we talked about the word Prosperity earlier well ctive for to flourish is to prosper another synonym for this word we have on our list is to thrive your business or your relationships can Thrive so remember these three words to thrive to prosper to flourish all of them mean to be successful 34 disruption an interruption or disturbance 35 decay in other words TOEFL creators love and use all the time to Decay means to rot or become weaker for example building or relationship can both Decay recently had text about how venice's role as storage and distribution center for spices silk and gold decayed which means it became weaker and ultimately the city lost its Monopoly if you've taken at least few total practice tests you've probably also come across the idea that carbon decays in living things because carbon is radioactive it decays over time which means the older artifacts have less carbon than younger ones this is why so many readings and lectures mention radiocarbon dating which is method that uses the decay of carbon to determine the age of organic materials 36 rigid stiff or fixed something that can be moved or bent 37 preserve to keep something from Decay or destruction simply put to keep something safe you can preserve culture or preserve historical site by the way site is place 38 depletion the act of reducing or using something up some common locations with this word are depletion of resources soil depletion or depletion of population 39 estimate to guess or calculate the cost size or value of something as verb this word is pronounced estimate it can also be used as noun in this case we' say an estimate an estimate is judgment or calculation of approximately how large or or how great something is if the mechanics bill is much higher than the estimate they gave you for example you have right to be angry 40 impact the effect or influence of something on something else remember these three words an impact an influence an effect they are often used as paraphrase on toofold the word impact can also mean the force or action of one object hitting another for example the moment two comments Collide is called the moment of impact 41 inhibit to prevent or stop something from happening you can inhibit process or inhibit reaction for example this is the main factor inhibiting online access preventing online access 42 hibernation this word is extremely common in academic lectures hibernation is the type of deep sleep that some animals such as bears for example go into during the winter so simply put hibernation is like taking long nap 43 divert the verb to divert means to change the direction or course of something the police will divert traffic if there has been an accident which is blocking the road and it's good idea to divert some of your income into savings account so you don't spend it all on the toofold you may find mentions of diverted traffic information diverted public attention or investigation 44 tremendous extremely large for example tremendous success or tremendous failure similar word is enormous this word also means very big an animal can be of an enormous size or your parents can have an enormous influence on your life 46 emerge to appear to come out many different things can emerge for example details patterns Trends differences or theories person can emerge from the crowd or plans often emerge from the ground 47 expand this word comes up all the time on the TOEFL to expand means to increase in size or scope you'll find texts about the universe economy business or Industries expanding markets or cities can also expand 48 proliferation the act of increasing or spreading rapidly 49 escalate to become greater or more serious the situation started to escalate around noon the credit crisis is escalating as expected 50 Surplus surplus is something extra or left over if your tree produces more apples than you can eat you can make applesauce with the surplus of apples you will often come across texts about surplus food surplus money Surplus supplies 51 eliminate this word is must on the reading and listening sections of the TOEFL to eliminate means to REM move or get rid of something this is what you do with the four answer options you get first you eliminate two options that are definitely wrong you can also eliminate problem possibility or risk 52 purchase to buy something for example purchase house or car 53 obtain to get something you can obtain degree obtain information permission approval or obtain job the next three words on our list have similar meetings they are obligatory mandatory and compulsory if something is obligatory mandatory or compulsory you must do it because of rule or law for example this is mandatory to help prevent fraud registration was obl obligatory but voting was optional the study skills courses were almost always compulsory you'll see these words all the time so be sure to write them down if you don't know them 57 predominant more noticeable or important or greater number than others the predominant colors however were black and yellow we did it congratulations these were the 57 words you'll definitely need to to tackle the tol reading and listening sections as you've already noticed many of them can also be used in your writing and speaking responses thanks for watching please note below how many words you already knew if you want to master all four sections of the toal exam and get great score on test day click on the link below and don't forget to subscribe to our channel to get more tips and tricks on how to Ace the TOEFL test remember scoring 100 plus on the TOEFL isn't rocket science it's the little things you do that make all the difference as always wish you all stellar total score until next time