TOEFL Vocabulary - Which words do you really need to know?

 

   

To do well in all parts of the TOEFL, you simply MUST have a good academic vocabulary! But which words do you need to know???

  

The link below will take you to the 300 most common words in academic/scientific/professional English - the ones most likely to appear in reading and listening passages on the TOEFL, and the ones you will probably need to be able to pronounce and use accurately for speaking questions 4 and 6, as well as writing task 1.

To help with your speaking, in the list I've highlighted stressed syllables in each of the words.

   

Top 300 Words from the Academic Word List for TOEFL preparation

 

Study the words, make sure you can understand them, make sure you can pronounce them properly, and make sure you can say and write them in accurate sentences!

   

   

~ Jason

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