TOEFL Vocabulary Quiz Four: Words 61-80

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agnostic ____
to sacrifice____
self-perpetuating ____
atheist ____
psychic ____
to haunt____
animism ____
astrological ____
ecclesiastical ____
to invoke ____
a phantom ____
to meditate ____
a horror ____
to deify ____
pious ____
divination ____
an intermediary ____
to exalt ____
to be inclined to ____
to contemplate ____
having or exhibiting religious reverence
related to the study of the position of
stars and their supposed effect on
earthly events

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Name: ______________
a strong fear mixed with disgust
foretelling the future by finding patterns
in physical objects
to call on for support
a ghost
acting as an agent between people or
things
being unsure of whether there is a god
to give up something in order to have
something more valuable later on
to worship as a god
a supposed ability of the human mind to
sense things that cannot be observed
to continually appear as a ghost
to think quietly and deeply for a long
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relating to a church
to praise or honor
the belief that natural objects have souls
one who does not believe in the
existence of god
having the power to renew oneself
to consider thoughtfully
to favor an opinion or a course of action

TOEFL Vocabulary Quiz Four: Words 61-80

Name: ______________
21. She goes to church and prays seven times a day; she is a very _______________ person.
22. In order to be successful as an adult, it is important to _______________ certain selfish
indulgences.
23. It is the _______________ elites who continually dominate all our classrooms and
boardrooms.
24.It is natural to want to _______________ our heroes.
25. She must have some _______________ abilities; she seemed to know exactly what I was
thinking.
26. When you talk to the owner of the company, make sure you invite me along to act as
_______________.
27.Let me _______________ my decision for the next few days, and Ill let you know on Monday.
28. After studying the _______________ signs, Ive determined that the stars predict this to be a
lucky year.
29. Through the act of _______________, the wizard used the bamboo shoots to predict the
future.
30. When speaking about human rights, many speakers _______________ famous human rights
activist Martin Luther King Jr.
31. Her blood ran cold when she saw what she thought was the _______________ of her dead
brother.
32. Whenever I have a rough day, I sit and _______________ until I feel more at peace.
33. I hate watching _______________ movies because they make me feel sick to my stomach.
34. After Jesus Christ was killed, thousands of new followers began to _______________ him.
35. Until you can prove to me that god exists, I will remain _______________.
36. The priest put on his _______________ robes before he entered into the church service.
37. In horror movies, ghosts return to the houses they died in and _______________ the people
living there.
38. I am an _______________ because god is an idea created by humans to keep other people in
control.
39. I am _______________ choose the religion that seems to contain the least amount of
hypocrites.
40. My belief in _______________ influences my vegetarianism, as well.

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 #7

TOEFL Vocabulary Quiz Four: Words 61-80

Name: ______________

In Russia, several religions coexist, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and

__________. The most common religion is Christianity, and most Christians are
members of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Church has existed for over 1,000
years, surviving even the official __________ of the Soviet era and the __________
that may have been even more prominent at the time. During the communist
years, many Russians who practiced Orthodoxy __________ career and educational
opportunities. The tenacity of Russian Orthodoxy may explain why even
nonreligious Russians __________ to call themselves Russian Orthodox. That same
staying power drives the Church today, which is run by Aleksey II of Moscow.
Born Aleksey Mikhailovich Ridiger, the future patriarch was from a very __________
family. As a boy, Aleksey was often taken by his parents on their annual
pilgrimages, when he most certainly began __________ of the religious way of life
he was to choose. As patriarch, Aleksey is __________ in the Church governance,
but he is not __________. Aleksey has published articles on Church history and
peacemaking in both the __________ and secular press, broadening the Churchs
image both in Russia and abroad.
TOEFL Vocabulary Paragraph #8
Some say that sailors are a superstitious group. Long nights of watching stars
predispose them to a belief in __________. Long periods of isolation lead them to
believe in __________ phenomena that others would laugh at. This may explain
sailors frequent reports of seeing __________ ships. From the Gulf of Mexico,
across the Atlantic, and to the South China Sea, sailors often claim that such
vessels __________ the seas. One of the most famous stories of ghost ships is the
Flying Dutchman, which sailed in 1680 from Amsterdam to Dutch East India
under Hendrick Vanderdecken. When the captain ignored the danger warnings of
a storm, his ship was smashed and the crew was lost. According to legend, his
arrogance __________ the wrath of God, who condemned the lost crewmembers to
battle the waters off the Cape of Good Hope for eternity. Since then, there have
been repeated sightings of the Flying Dutchman, one as recent as 1939. Many
sightings of phantom ships occur in areas where vessels are known to have sunk.
Sailors can never __________ when or where they will next encounter a phantom
ship. Rather, most of their sightings occur randomly, only later to bring forth
information of a former sea __________. Some say that ghosts aboard a phantom
ship are trying to use living sailors as their __________. Still others think that the
existence of phantom ships is merely a __________ myth for bored sailors who are
prone to too much idle __________ about the meaning of life and death on the high
seas.