TOEFL iBT Answers Reading Sample Unit:

Vocabulary Exercise - Answers:

a) changes for the worse = vicissitudes

b) amazingly large = stupendous

c) hidden = covert

d) thwarted = foiled

e) with unceasing attention = assiduous

f) intuition = hunch

g) threat = menace

h) a trick to avoid blame = subterfuge

i) disloyalty = perfidy

j) commensurate with - tantamount to

k) honesty = candor

l) submissiveness = servility

m) with equanimity = phlegmatically

n) falsely shy = coyly

o) fuzzy = blurry

p) skillfully = deftly

q) completely determined = resolutely

r) convincing = cogent

s) appropriate = apposite

t) mockery = jeering

u) crowds = throngs

v) give up = relinquish

w) total agreement (2 answers) = unanimous; consensus

x) exiled = banished

Additional vocabulary:

You should also learn the following additional vocabulary from this unit: predominant, immense, discrepancies, duplicitous, bugging, tapping, purging, espionage, irrevocable, perjury, magnanimity, sinecure, exile.

Reading Comprehension Exercise - Answers:

1) A

2) A

3) D

4) B

5) B