Vocab TOEFL Chinese Flashcards by alan gang

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Provision

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Providing or Supplying

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Lodge

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Small House

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Rendition

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Performance, Interpretation

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Staple

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Important, Connects together

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Incinerate

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Destroy something by burning

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Noxious

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Harmful, Poisonous

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Posit

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Put in position or place, Assume as a Fact

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Secrete

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Discharge, Produce

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Tantalizing

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Torment or tease someone

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Torpor

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Inactivity, inertia

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Archaeology

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Study of human history and prehistor, through excavations.

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Barter

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Trade

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Besiege

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Surrender, Harass, Surround

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Adhere

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Believe in something, Stick to something

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Doctrine

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Set of beliefs

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Specimen

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Example of its species, Sample

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Surplus

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Excess, too much

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Coil

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Length of something arranged in a spiral like shape.

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Forestall

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Prevent or Obstruct

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Igneous

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Formed from lava or magma or fire

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Impetus

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Force or Energy with which a body moves (Momentum, Motivation, Propulsion.)

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Paramount

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More imporant than anything else

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Plausible

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Seemingly Reasonable or Probable

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Remnant

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Small remaining quantity

Sturdy

Strongly and Solidify Built

Substantial

Important, Fundamental

Renaissance

Revival

Bony

Of or like a bone

Coarse

Rough

Quench

Extinguish, Satify one's thirst by drinking

Compel

Force to do something

Forefront

Leading, Most imporant position

Appraisal

An act of examining Something or someone

Enrich

Enhance

Memo

Written message

Venture

Risky or to go somewhere unpleasant

Veto

Reject decision or proposal

Forage

Search for food or provisions

Ductile

Metal that could be stretched

Homogenous

Same kind or Alike

Pretentious

Attempt to Impress

Vicinity

Near, Closeness,

Inert

Lacking the ability to move

Lament

Grief or sorrow

Ailment

Not a serious disease

Commute

Travel to work

Denote

Signify, Indicate

Frenzy

Uncontrolled behavior

Induce

Persuade or Convince, Bring in

Jolt

Push or shake something roughly

Recession

Period of economic decline

Scurry

Move Hurriedly

Eccentric

Weird Strange Behavior

Rancher

Someone who owns a farm

Palate

Roof of the mouth

Arboreal

Animals that live in trees

Desolate

Deserted of people, deserted