TOEFL Vocabulary — Group 5

To gather or collect something, especially praise, support, or information, over time.

To hinder or slow down the progress of something.

Lacking any clear plan or order; done in a random, disorganized way.

A system in which people or things are ranked according to status, rank, or authority.

To make it harder for someone to do something or for something to progress.

A proposed explanation, offered as a starting point for further testing or investigation.

Based on an assumed or imagined situation rather than one known to be true.

Made up of parts or members that are all alike, without much variation.

To hurry, or to cause something to happen sooner than it otherwise would.

A person or thing that signals or foreshadows something about to happen.

Not favoring one side over another, treating every party with equal fairness.

To slow down or block the progress of something.

So important or urgent that it demands immediate attention or action.

Suggested or understood without being stated in direct words.

Happening by accident, without intention or awareness.

Something offered or promised that encourages a person to act in a particular way.

Out of place; not fitting with its surroundings or with what would normally be expected.

Not important enough to have any real effect or significance.

To include something as a working part of a larger whole.

Originating naturally in a particular place rather than arriving from somewhere else.

So important or useful that a person or thing cannot be done without.

Certain to happen and impossible to avoid.

To work out a conclusion from evidence and reasoning rather than from a direct statement.

Extremely clever and original, especially in solving a problem.

Existing as a natural and permanent part of something rather than added from outside.