
Learn essential vocabulary for the toefl, including aggravate, decrepit, disease, fatally, forensics, prognosis, terminal, vein, and wound, with clear definitions and usage.
Explore context-driven vocabulary through a murder case where terminal illness, autopsy findings, and poisoning point to inheritance motives and murder in the first degree.
Build your TOEFL vocabulary with lesson 2, introducing terms like anesthesia, augment, certifiably, complication, cure, implant, inject, obese, procedure, and scar through clear definitions and examples.
Learn vocabulary in context related to cosmetic surgery, including liposuction, breast augmentation, anesthesia, complications, and the importance of board-certified surgeons.
Expand your vocabulary with terms like astrological, foretelling, intermediary, invoke, meditate, phantom, psychic, and self-perpetuating. Use horror contexts to see how these words convey meaning and nuance for TOEFL.
Build your TOEFL vocabulary by learning words like assimilate, cremation, domesticated, folklore, fossilize, relic, rite, ritual, saga, and vestige with clear definitions and examples.
Reveal that aborigines were among the first people through relics near Penrith, and show forty seven thousand years ago sea migrations, nomadic life, and western contact altering land and identity.
Explore essential vocabulary such as amend, biased, burden, counter, de facto, discriminate, connotation, notion, paradigm, prejudiced, and more to strengthen your TOEFL lexicon.
Fought prejudice in South Africa, Mandela organized against discriminatory laws and racial bias, was arrested in 1962 and jailed for life, led African National Congress, and became president in 1994.
Explore toefl vocabulary in lesson 6, including curriculum, distinctly, erudite, fortify, implicitly, parochial, reggae, roster, secular, simplicity, and suspend, with concise definitions and usage examples.
Learn how allegiance expresses loyalty to a country and how artillery, battle, and strategic plans shape conflicts, while understanding hierarchy, in the trenches, mobilize, rank, and ratio concepts.
Explains how disease shaped military history, from mosquito-borne illnesses and trenches to the rise of germ theory, culminating in Washington's use of smallpox vaccination despite Jenner's safer vaccine.
Explore Rome's conquest of North Africa, the Punic Wars with Carthage, Hannibal's march through the Alps, and Rome's ultimate victory expanding the empire across the Mediterranean.
Learn vocabulary through lesson nine, covering chronological order, coincide, consequence, core, deny, diminish, longitude, orwellian, and reconciliation with example sentences and context.
Explore how revisionist history uses political motives to reinterpret events, distinguish between verified facts and unfounded claims, and recognize narratives shaped by colonialism and long-standing rivalries.
Learn essential TOEFL vocabulary with clear definitions and examples, including allocate, commodity, decline, equity, inflation, net, per capita, regulate, subsidy, and tangible.
Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.
-- Zig Ziglar
You can't build up a vocabulary if you never meet any new words. And to meet them you must read. The more you read the better.
-- Rudolf Flesch and Abraham Lass
Words are important. If you cannot say what you mean, you will never mean what you say. And you should always mean what you say.
Paraphrased from the film, The Last Emperor written by Mark Peploe & Bernardo Bertolucci
This course is intended to improve your performance in the TOEFL test by building and enriching your vocabulary. This course is the first part of a series of TOEFL Vocabulary Building courses. This course relies on TOEFL Preparation self study books which were written by professionals who help prepare learners for the TOEFL test. Their selection of words for this course was based on their extensive experience with the TOEFL test.
This course is tailored to the needs of learners studying for the TOEFL examination and working on enriching their vocabulary. After being introduced to the meaning of the target words, you listen to them in context.
This free course contains:
20 video lectures
10 Quizzes
Studying tips:
Keep a vocabulary log
Translate the words in your language if you need to
Listen to the lecture more than once
Answer the attached worksheet
Retake the course again if you need to