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100 Words to Improve Your TOEFL Speaking Score

March 8, 2026

100 Words to Improve Your TOEFL Speaking Score

No. Term Definition
1. Abundant More than enough; plentiful.
2. Accurate Correct; free from errors.
3. Adapt Adjust to new conditions.
4. Adequate Sufficient for a purpose.
5. Advocate Support publicly; speak for.
6. Affect Influence; make a difference to.
7. Allocate Distribute for a specific use.
8. Ambiguous Unclear; open to meanings.
9. Analogy Comparison to explain an idea.
10. Analyze Examine closely to understand.
11. Anticipate Expect; prepare for in advance.
12. Appreciate Value; recognize importance.
13. Approach Method; way of dealing.
14. Arbitrary Based on whim; not reasoned.
15. Assess Evaluate; judge quality or value.
16. Assume Accept without proof.
17. Attain Achieve; reach a goal.
18. Attribute Quality; feature of something.
19. Authentic Genuine; real; not fake.
20. Awareness Knowledge or understanding of.
21. Barrier Obstacle that blocks progress.
22. Benefit Advantage; positive result.
23. Bias Unfair preference; prejudice.
24. Briefly In a short time; concisely.
25. Broaden Make wider; expand scope.
26. Calculate Compute; figure out numerically.
27. Candidate Person considered for a role.
28. Capable Able to do something.
29. Challenge Difficult task requiring effort.
30. Clarify Make clear; explain.
31. Coherent Logical and well organized.
32. Collaborate Work together toward a goal.
33. Commitment Dedication; promise to act.
34. Communicate Share information or ideas.
35. Compare Note similarities and differences.
36. Compensate Make up for a loss.
37. Competent Skilled; able to do well.
38. Complex Not simple; many parts.
39. Conclude Decide after thinking.
40. Conduct Carry out; perform.
41. Consequence Result; effect of an action.
42. Consider Think about carefully.
43. Consistent Steady; not changing.
44. Construct Build; form by combining.
45. Contrast Show differences clearly.
46. Contribute Give help; add value.
47. Convey Express; communicate meaning.
48. Criteria Standards used for judging.
49. Crucial Extremely important.
50. Cultivate Develop through practice.
51. Decline Decrease; become less.
52. Deduce Infer from evidence.
53. Demonstrate Show clearly; prove.
54. Dense Closely packed; not sparse.
55. Depict Describe or show in detail.
56. Derive Get from a source.
57. Diminish Reduce; make smaller.
58. Discrete Separate; distinct.
59. Diverse Varied; different types.
60. Dominate Control; be most influential.
61. Elaborate Add details; explain more.
62. Eliminate Remove completely.
63. Emphasize Give special importance to.
64. Enable Make possible; allow.
65. Encounter Meet unexpectedly; face.
66. Enhance Improve; make better.
67. Essential Necessary; very important.
68. Establish Set up; create firmly.
69. Evaluate Judge value or quality.
70. Evidence Facts supporting a claim.
71. Exaggerate Overstate; make seem larger.
72. Exhibit Show; display publicly.
73. Expand Increase in size or scope.
74. Explicit Clearly stated; not implied.
75. Facilitate Make easier; help happen.
76. Factor Element contributing to a result.
77. Feasible Possible; practical to do.
78. Fluctuate Change irregularly; vary.
79. Focus Direct attention toward.
80. Fundamental Basic; forming a foundation.
81. Generate Produce; create.
82. Genuine Real; sincere.
83. Gradual Happening slowly over time.
84. Highlight Emphasize; draw attention to.
85. Hypothesis Testable explanation or guess.
86. Identify Recognize; name; determine.
87. Illustrate Explain with examples.
88. Impact Strong effect or influence.
89. Implement Put into action; carry out.
90. Imply Suggest without stating directly.
91. Incentive Motivation; something encouraging action.
92. Incorporate Include as part of.
93. Indicate Show; point out.
94. Inevitable Certain to happen.
95. Infer Conclude from evidence.
96. Innovative New and creative; original.
97. Justify Give reasons to support.
98. Maintain Keep in good condition.
99. Mitigate Reduce severity; make less harmful.
100. Notion Idea; belief.
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