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happen or exist at the same time

B. frightening and over controlled by a
government that interferes in nearly
every aspect of personal life
C. an area or object at the center
D. a coming back together after a
disagreement
E. a course of study
F. to strengthen
G. a result, usually one that is negative
H. to make something smaller or
weaker
I. to say that something is not true
J. a list, especially of names
K. restricted in outlook
L. highly educated
M. general environment or
surroundings
N. without being explicitly stated
O. following rules strictly
P. clearly
Q. the angular distance east or west on
the earths surface
R. in order according to time
S. not related to religion
T. to stop for a period; to hang

TOEFL Vocabulary Quiz: Words 141-160

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a reconciliation ____
erudite ____
to deny ____
Orwellian ____
to fortify____
longitude ____
a core ____
implicitly____
to suspend____
to diminish____
a curriculum____
chronologically ____
parochial____
a roster ____
rigor ____
to coincide ____
distinctly ____
milieu____
secular ____
consequence ____
Name:

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21. Allens book is arranged ______________, from the Crusade in 1095 to the fall of Granada in
1492.
22. The Viking attacks on western Europe ______________ with an abnormally warm period in
the Earths climate.
23. One ______________ of global warming may be the flooding of low-lying islands.
24. The ______________ of Indias film industry is Bombay, where all but a few film studios are
located.
25. Movie star Allen Butcher ____________ that he and the Princess of Denmark were getting
married.
26. The Protestant Reformation ______________ the power of the Roman Catholic Pope.
27. The prime meridian, a line running through Greenwich, England, is marked as 0
______________.
28. Many Vietnam veterans didnt feel comfortable in the antiwar social ______________ of the
1970s.
29. Biometric devices like eye-scanners allow an ______________ level of government
knowledge about everyones location.
30. South Africa avoided a bloodbath after apartheid by setting up a Truth and
______________Commission.
31. The teachers met to design a new ______________ for the Intensive English Program.
32. I ______________ remember saying that we would meet at noon.
33. Even though she was only a freshman, she was considered ______________ by her
professors.
34. The high-priced drink had extra vitamins and minerals to ______________ the body.
35. By joining the competition, she agreed ______________ to the rules.
36. Marla moved from her rural community to get away from its ______________ thinking.
37. The ______________ of military life toughened the young men quickly.
38. Two of the names on the ______________ were misspelled.
39. Few privates schools in the United States are ______________.
40. The trial was ______________ when the judge learned that one of the jury members knew
the defense lawyer.

In groups of 2-3 students, narrow down the vocabulary words until you have solved the
paragraph puzzle. Compete to be the first team to complete the puzzle correctly.

TOEFL Vocabulary Paragraph #15

In the last three decades, universities across the United States have attempted to adapt
their ______________ to meet the changing purposes of higher education. University
education was also once considered an exclusive opportunity, with ______________
scholars establishing courses based on the goal of training a ______________ academic
elite. These days, not every undergraduate is destined to become a scholar, and the
______________ of students represents a more complete cross section of society,

including minorities, women, and returning students. These days, most learners attend
university to ______________ basic skills, primarily learning how to learn and how to
express themselves. Far from its earlier religious or elitist image, the university is seen
increasingly as a ______________ center for career development, where students know
they will graduate into a competitive job market. Most professors have embraced this
evolution in the universitys role, letting go of the traditional, ______________ view of
higher education. On the other hand, many feel that while they want to accommodate an
adaptable curriculum, universities must not ______________ their obligation of
establishing ______________ requirements for education and graduation.
______________ in their stance is support for the traditional liberal arts curriculum with
a core of classes required across disciplines.
TOEFL Vocabulary Paragraph #16
Revisionist history promotes a new view of ______________ events, usually for political
purposes. Radical revisionists ______________ the credibility of a previous view and
may even ______________ that certain events happened at all. Some revisionist Asian
historians have ignored long-standing conflicts among native peoples and have explained
Asias conflicts as a ______________ of colonialism and its class-oriented cultural
______________. Good motives among the revisioniststo promote ______________
among traditional rivalsdont excuse bad history. History is valuable only if its stories
______________ with verifiable facts. From far away, an observer may see clearly that a
given conflict had nothing to do with colonialism and a lot to do with 1,000-year-old
rivalries. But this is not likely to matter much to a confirmed revisionist historian. At its
______________, revisionismby the government in particularis an ______________
exercise in thought control, not honest science.
* Word Not Used: Longitude