TOEFL LC
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- binge
- an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
- disperse
- move away from each other
- credibility
- the quality of being believable or trustworthy
- appall
- strike with disgust or revulsion, fill with apprehension or alarm
- sandstone
- a sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some cement (clay or quartz etc.)
- staple
- (usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
- crib
- baby bed with high sides
- microevolution
- evolution resulting from small specific genetic changes that can lead to a new subspecies
- subset
- a set whose members are members of another set
- run aground
- of boats, hit or reach the ground
- painstaking
- characterized by extreme care and great effort
- paradoxical
- seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true
- descend
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- skim
- remove from the surface
- expatriate
- expel from a country
- mouth
- the point where a stream issues into a larger body of water
- devastate
- overwhelm or overpower
- fast
- abstaining from food
- conjugation
- the state of being joined together
- generate
- bring into existence
- colony
- a group of animals of the same type living together
- anorexia
- a prolonged disorder of eating due to loss of appetite
- admission
- an acknowledgment of the truth of something
- asexually
- in an asexual manner
- stroller
- someone who walks at a leisurely pace
- drastic
- forceful and extreme and rigorous
- frantic
- marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion
- pass along
- deliver
- calamity
- an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
- anthill
- a mound of earth made by ants as they dig their nest
- minuscule
- very small
- peasant
- one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers
- delta
- a river splits and spreads out into several branches before entering the sea
- groundbreaking
- outstanding, inovative
- stake
- put at risk
- purge
- an act of removing by cleansing
- chamber
- a room used primarily for sleeping
- bulimia
- pathologically insatiable hunger (especially when caused by brain lesions)
- slick
- a trowel used to make a surface slick
- swampy
- (of soil) soft and watery
- fierce
- marked by extreme and violent energy
- crucible
- a vessel made of material that does not melt easily
- membrane
- a thin pliable sheet of material
- furnace
- an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.
- evacuate
- move out of an unsafe location into safety
- inflict
- impose something unpleasant
- namely
- as follows
- mutation
- a change or alteration in form or qualities
- tyrannical
- characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule
- stake
- place a bet on
- mutiny
- open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers)
- sponsor
- an advocate who presents a person (as for an award or a degree or an introduction etc.)
- demographic
- a statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken down by age or sex or income etc.)
- tanker
- a cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk
- bioremediation
- the act of treating waste or pollutants by the use of microorganisms (as bacteria) that can break down the undesirable substances
- mating
- the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
- racism
- discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race
- reef
- a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water
- exemplification
- a representational or typifying form or model
- macroevolution
- evolution on a large scale extending over geologic era and resulting in the formation of new taxonomic groups
- compulsive
- forceful
- tzar
- a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)
- segregate
- separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others
- coup
- a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force
- fission
- reproduction of some unicellular organisms by division of the cell into two more or less equal parts
- progeny
- the immediate descendants of a person
- glasswork
- an article of tableware made of glass
- fanatic
- a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause)
- pili
- Appendages that allow bacteria to attach to each other and to transfer DNA
- thrive
- grow stronger
- gulf
- an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land
- novella
- a short novel
- integral
- existing as an essential constituent or characteristic
- nursery
- a child's room for a baby
- in a nutshell
- summed up briefly
- epidemic
- a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease
- abstain
- choose no to consume
- plot
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- cremate
- reduce to ashes
- setback
- an unfortunate happening that hinders of impedes
- digression
- a message that departs from the main subject
- bottom line
- the last line in an audit
- plasmid
- a small cellular inclusion consisting of a ring of DNA that is not in a chromosome but is capable of autonomous replication