TOEFL Vocabulary — Group 4

To try to match or surpass someone by imitating their admirable qualities or achievements.

To publicly state approval or support for someone or something.

Something or someone puzzling and difficult to fully understand.

Fair to everyone involved, especially in how resources or opportunities are shared.

To completely eliminate something, especially something harmful.

Not following a regular or predictable pattern; irregular and unreliable in behavior.

To adopt and publicly support a particular belief, cause, or way of living.

To make an already bad or difficult situation even worse.

To be a typical example of something, or to illustrate a point using an example.

Stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt.

To make a process or action easier or smoother for other people to carry out.

A mistaken belief that results from faulty reasoning.

Possible to do or achieve easily and practically, given the available resources.

Showing intense and passionate feeling or enthusiasm.

To rise and fall irregularly in amount, level, or quality.

Impressively powerful, capable, or difficult to deal with, often inspiring respect or slight fear.

Happening by lucky chance rather than by design or planning.

Lacking seriousness or importance, often concerned with trivial pleasure instead.

Forming the essential base or core that everything else depends on.

General in nature rather than specific to a particular brand, case, or type.

Real and sincere; not fake, forced, or pretended.

Happening slowly, in small steps, over an extended period.

To struggle or engage seriously with a difficult problem or question in order to solve or understand it.

Fond of company; sociable and enjoying the presence of others.

Easily fooled or tricked because of being too trusting.