TOEFL practice test: Improve Your Vocabulary: Noun

n. inherent quality; characteristic
bane
fallacy
attribute
consternation

adj. smooth and slippery; speaking or spoken in a smooth manner; easily fluent; careless; insincere
temporal
glib
distraught
oblivious

v. to scold or blame loudly; to find fault with in abusive language; to condemn
retrieve
recapitulate
vituperate
edify

n. dull and commonplace remark; banality; superficiality; commonplace
harbinger
onus
platitude
plebiscite

n. act of erecting (a building); meaning
prerogative
grimace
fealty
construction

v. to make good; to recover; to restore; to fetch; to bring back; to regain
coalesce
concede
ken
retrieve

v. to publish; to spread abroad; to declare; to advertise widely
jettison
condone
promulgate
meander

adj. queer; unusual in appearance; strange; outlandish
bizarre
jaunty
pedantic
tranquil

adj. emphasizing minutiae or form in scholarship or teaching; strict; meticulous
pedantic
civil
ambiguous
adverse

adj. perfect or highly accomplished; excellent; skilled; complete
precipitous
succulent
consummate
credulous