Intermediate Vocabulary Words
Academic vocabulary common across TOEFL, IELTS, and multi-test contexts. These words appear in university-level texts and are essential for scoring well on standardized English proficiency tests.
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A person who is in charge of a particular organization or activity; a manager or supervisor.
Better in quality, skill, or status; higher in rank or position.
Attributed to forces beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature; mystical or otherworldly...
An irrational belief that actions or events can influence outcomes in unjustified or magical ways.
To oversee and manage the work or performance of others.
The act of overseeing or managing someone or something.
A person who oversees the work of others, often in a job or academic setting.
To replace something or someone, typically by force or through gradual takeover.
Flexible and easily bent, often used to describe materials or bodies.
Something added to complete or enhance an existing thing.
Additional to or serving to complete something.
To ask humbly and earnestly, often in prayer.
To assume something as a fact or hypothesis for the sake of argument.
According to what is generally believed, though not necessarily true.
An assumption made without firm evidence.
To stop or restrain something by force or authority.
The state or condition of being dominant or superior to others.
Highest in rank, authority, or quality.
An additional charge beyond the usual or standard cost.
The outer or top layer of an object or material.
An excessive or overabundant amount of something.
A sudden, powerful forward or upward movement; a rapid increase.
A medical doctor who performs surgical operations.
A medical procedure involving an operation to repair or remove parts of the body.
Rising or increasing rapidly and forcefully.
Bad-tempered and unfriendly in manner.
To suppose or conclude something without firm evidence.
To successfully overcome a difficulty or obstacle.
To go beyond or exceed in quality, quantity, or achievement.
To an exceptional or remarkable degree; extremely.
An amount that is more than what is needed or used.
To give up or stop resisting, often under pressure or defeat.
An examination or analysis of a subject, often by questioning a sample of people.
The state or fact of continuing to live or exist, typically despite difficulty.
To continue to live or exist, especially in spite of danger or hardship.
A person who continues to live after an event that has caused injury, death, or damage.
Likely to be influenced or harmed by a particular thing.
To believe something is likely true, often something wrong or criminal.
To temporarily stop or delay a process, activity, or privilege.
A strip of fabric worn over the shoulder to hold up trousers.
A state of mental uncertainty or anxiety about an outcome.
A feeling or thought that something is possible, likely, or true, especially something undesirable.
Having or showing a cautious distrust of someone or something.
To maintain or keep something going over time; to support or endure.
Continued over a period of time without interruption; maintained.
Food or nourishment necessary to maintain life and health.
To move food, drink, or other substances from the mouth into the stomach; also, to accept or believe...
A large area of wet, spongy land; to overwhelm or fill more than can be handled.
Wet and muddy; resembling a swamp.
A large group of insects, animals, or people moving together; a sudden mass movement.
To move slowly or rhythmically from side to side; to influence or affect someone's opinion or decisi...
To make a solemn statement or promise; to use offensive or obscene language.
To clean a surface by brushing away dirt with a broom; to move swiftly across an area.
Extensive and comprehensive in effect or range; describing a broad motion or change.
To increase in size, volume, or numbers, often due to pressure or fluid; a large wave.
The condition of becoming enlarged due to fluid or inflammation; an abnormal enlargement.
Moving or acting with great speed or quickly.
The quality of being fast or rapid.
A pig, or used contemptuously to refer to a person behaving disgustingly.
A single unit of pronunciation within a word, usually containing a vowel sound.