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TOEFL Vocabulary: Academic Word List for 2025
TOEFL passages use dense academic vocabulary. Building a strong word bank from the Academic Word List (AWL) and discipline-specific terms is the fastest way to improve your score.
Practice TOEFL Vocabulary →Word Families: Learn 1 Word, Know 4
Learning a word family (noun + verb + adjective + adverb) multiplies your vocabulary 4x faster than learning individual words.
- analyse / analysis / analytical / analytically
- evident / evidence / evidently / self-evident
- significant / significantly / significance / insignificant
- establish / established / establishment / re-establish
Science & Nature Vocabulary (Frequent in TOEFL)
- ecology: organism, habitat, species, predator, symbiotic, decompose
- geology: sedimentary, tectonic, erosion, stratum, volcanic, sediment
- biology: membrane, cellular, metabolism, enzyme, protein synthesis
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Social Science Vocabulary
- anthropology: indigenous, cultural diffusion, ritual, kinship, migration
- economics: supply and demand, GDP, inflation, monetary policy, scarcity
- psychology: cognitive, behavioural, stimulus, reinforcement, perception
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