500 TOEFL Words Study Guide

Affinity --a natural attraction or feeling of kinship fledgling --young and inexperienced hackneyed --overused, cliched incessant --never stopping opulence --wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living proximity --nearness, closeness sagacious --having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd supplant --to take the place of, supersede unassailable --impossible to dispute or disprove; undeniable voluminous --large in volume or bulk brusque --Abrupt, blunt, with no formalities dispassionate --impartial; calm, free from emotion effervescent --bubbly, lively indefatigable --tireless; untiring; showing no sign of getting tired misanthrope --someone who dislikes people in general morose --Gloomy; sullen nonchalance --indifference, a showing of little interest progeny --descendants, offspring, children, followers, disciples stoic --seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain voracious --having a huge appetite, greedy, ravenous; excessively eager coalesce --combine; fuse decadence --decline, decay, or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay; excessive self-indulgence exemplary --outstanding, an example to others exuberance --joyful enthusiasm incidental --not essential; minor insolvent --unable to pay bills; bankrupt parsimonious --Excessively thrifty, stingy prodigal --wasteful, a person given to extravagance surreptitious --secret, stealthy writhe --twist in coils; contort in pain brevity --conciseness; shortness of duration clemency --mercy, humaneness; mildness, moderateness frivolous --not serious in content or attitude or behavior heist --commit a burglary lampoon --ridicule with satire querulous --inclined to complain; irritable reproach --a mild rebuke or criticism respite --a pause for relaxation torpor --dormancy; sluggishness; inactivity; drowziness unscathed --wholly unharmed, not injured copious --large in number or quantity (especially of discourse) dearth --a lack, scarcity, inadequate supply; a famine eloquent --persuasive and moving, especially in speech jargon --specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject levity --lightness of manner meander --To wind and turn while proceeding in a course.