Peterson’s
MASTER
TOEFL
VOCABULARY
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Contents
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
How This Book Is Organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Special Study Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
You’re Well on Your Way to Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
Give Us Your Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
Top 10 Strategies to Raise Your Score . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
PART I: TOEFL VOCABULARY BASICS
1 All About TOEFL Vocabulary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Vocabulary on the TOEFL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Strategies for Learning and Remembering New Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Summing It Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
PART II: DIAGNOSING STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES
2 Practice Test 1: Diagnostic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Answer Key and Explanations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
PART III: TOEFL VOCABULARY REVIEW
3Words in Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Strategies for Defining Words from Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Answer Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Summing It Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
4 Everyday and Specific Vocabulary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Strategies for Learning Related Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
How Thoughts Are Related. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Answer Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Summing It Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
5 All About Roots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Word Roots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Strategies for Learning Roots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
How Roots Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
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Learning Words with Greek Roots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Learning Words with Latin Roots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Answer Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Summing It Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
6 All About Prefixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Prefixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Strategies for Learning Prefixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
How Prefixes Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Learning Words with Greek Prefixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Learning Words with Latin Prefixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Prefixes for Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Anglo-Saxon Prefixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Answer Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Summing It Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
7 All About Suffixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Suffixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Strategies for Learning Suffixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
How Suffixes Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Suffixes That Describe State of Being . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Suffixes That Indicate Occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Suffixes That Show Resemblance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Suffixes That Show Amount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Twelve Useful Suffixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Answer Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Summing It Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
PART IV: TWO PRACTICE TESTS
Practice Test 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Answer Key and Explanations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Practice Test 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Answer Key and Explanations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
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Before You Begin
HOW THIS BOOK IS ORGANIZED
If you are preparing for any version of the TOEFL, you are not alone. Almost a
million people all over the world took the TOEFL last year. A high score on this
test is an essential step in being admitted to undergraduate or graduate
programs at almost all colleges and universities in North America. But prepar-
ing for this test can be a difficult, often frustrating, experience.
Peterson’s Master TOEFL Vocabulary, used as a self-tutor, will help you improve
your vocabulary skills. You’ll learn many of the “right” words—words you don’t
already know but that are likely to appear on your test.
• Top 10 Strategies to Raise Your Score gives you test-taking strategies.
• Part I provides TOEFL vocabulary basics, including strategies for learning
and remembering new words.

• Part II provides a diagnostic test to determine your strengths and weak-
nesses.
• Part III provides the basic vocabulary review. The words you’ll encounter
start with those that are relatively simple. They become relatively difficult
as you continue through the book. Various learning strategies, such as
learning root words, are reviewed.
• Part IV consists of two additional practice vocabulary tests. They will show
you how well you have mastered the vocabulary skills presented in this book.
SPECIAL STUDY FEATURES
Peterson’s Master TOEFL Vocabulary is designed to be user-friendly. To this
end, it includes features to make your preparation much more efficient.
Overview
The review chapters begin with a bulleted overview, listing the topics to be
covered in the chapter. This will allow you to quickly target the areas in which
you are most interested.
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