PTE Vocabulary

Concurrence of opinions or wills.

The link or connection between people or things.

A serious problem or a situation requiring a difficult decision.

To condemn or publicly criticize someone or something.

The act or process of getting larger or an increase in size or number.

The amount of time that something lasts.

Additional material found at the end of a book or essay.

Full of energy, constantly changing, or relating to energy.

Increasing due to the constant addition of other elements.

An idea or notion; a plan or experimental model for a future product.

An increase in value or the act of recognizing something's quality or worth.

Selecting from various sources or combining elements from different styles.

To obtain, purchase, or develop a habit or skill.

Very sure; persuaded.

Not related to the church or military, but rather ordinary people; polite or courteous.

A coworker or someone you work with in the same profession.

The basic structure for something.

To take advantage of or make use of.

Tending to split and move out in different directions.

To demonstrate or show that a person is involved in something.

One's promise or willingness to do something; an obligation.

Antiquated or belonging to a time in the past; old-fashioned.

A group of documents with historical or informational value, or the place where they are kept.

Done without any planning or unrehearsed.

To direct or manage, control, or distribute or give out.

In addition, moreover, besides, additionally.

Related to money or finance.

1. To equalize 2. To make two or more things equal 3. To consider things equal.

Limited; having an end.

Contrast.

To help make something happen or to assist.

To long, aim, or seek ambitiously to have or achieve something, especially in your career; desire strongly.

Completely lacking something that is necessary or usual.

A shortened form of a name, phrase, or word.

Likely to change one's opinion; not constant.

A show where works of art are displayed for the public to contemplate.

A clear, detailed, easy to understand explanation.

Marked by stubborn determination and persistence despite difficulties.

The order of people based on their rank or status.

The management of money.

Related, comparable, or directly related.

Able to float or cheerful and optimistic.

The creator of something or the person who writes a document.

1. A civil argument with opposing viewpoints. 2. A formal discussion before a vote. 3. General discussion.

To grow or develop gradually over an extended period of time.

To communicate through messages or to be related to something.

A reward or payment given in exchange for a negative incident.

To dig a large hole or channel in the ground, especially with a machine.

To gather things together and put them in a logical or orderly form.

Persuasive in speaking or writing; characterized by fluent and persuasive speech.

A sketch or a plan that shows what something will be like when it is produced or constructed.

A lack of something or an inadequate supply.

The center or the most important part of something.

Able to do something or quite good at a certain task.

Territory, field of activity or study, or a set of websites sharing the same suffix.

To make something shorter while keeping the same meaning.

A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction.

Brusque or curt in behavior or speech; unexpected or sudden.

Common to many different countries and cultures, or free from local prejudices.

To go well with something or to make perfect; to complete.

Exact, clear, undeniable, and certain.

A belief or set of beliefs taught and accepted by a group; also a statement of official government policy.

To record something on paper or in digital format; to provide written evidence.

Strange; not usual or typical.

To mechanize a process, replacing people with machines.

1. A fall in the number of something. 2. The act of reducing in number. 3. A downward slope.

1. Capable of expressing oneself in a clear and coherent manner 2. Clear and well formulated language.

To stray from the established course or standards.

Opposite or completely different.

To leave someone or something out or to deliberately not include.

Not concrete; expressing feelings instead of real objects or people.

To appear or come into view.

An extremely large quantity of something; more than enough.

To display or show something to the public.

Sleeping or inactive, but may become active in the future.

Human races, origins, societies, beliefs, cultures, and physical development.

Supporting or opposing a particular person or thing in an unfair way.

To spread or scatter over a wide area.

To bring people together for a formal or official purpose such as a meeting.

The act of removing someone or something from its previous place.

Not clear and seeming to have two or more possible opposing meanings; ambiguous.

A large government divided into departments with inflexible rules or a complicated management system requiring compliance with annoying regulations.

To grow, increase, expand, or develop quickly.

To discourage or keep someone from doing something.

To get rid of in an official way; to put an end to.

The ability to do something or the maximum number of things that a place can hold.

To make a statement that goes against what has been expressed by another; to deny or disagree.

Causing damage or injury.

A difference between two or more messages or statements which shows that one of the statements must be wrong.

A group of things organized by a common trait or a division.

Of the same or similar nature or kind.

Difficult to describe, find, catch, or understand.

Complicated and not easy to understand; involving many different parts.

To give someone the tools or skills necessary to perform a job.

One specific part of something; an ingredient or element.

The importance specifically placed on something.

To constantly undergo changes.

To strongly encourage or urge someone to do something.

The first copy of something, a sketch, or a rush of air through a space.

To get something from a source.

To harmonize or make two or more things work well together.

From or existing in the same time period; modern.

Power; the ability and right to control.

Belonging to a large company or shared between a group of people.

From or located outside; outer.

To evoke or draw out a response from someone.

To get rid of or remove.

Governing, more important than similar things, or commanding.

In the interest of or on part of.

The ability to judge wisely and make the right choices.

To harass or create trouble for.

Something that accompanies something or someone else, or music that accompanies a singer or the main tune.

Exactly alike or extraordinarily similar.

A book that contains many different selections from various authors.

1. A gathering of people that takes place because they share a common goal or interest; a meeting 2. A gathering of teachers and students where information is shared.

To stop doing something or to come to an end.

To deliberately show or prove something.

The act of making various parts work together in an organized way.

Gradual development or change, especially over long periods of time.

The disclosure or revealing of something.

Last; concluding.

To increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of something.

To stress or emphasize something.

A short, often funny story about a personal or biographical event.

To limit someone's possibilities or ability to do something.

To surpass or go beyond.

To incorporate something; to soak up or suck up something.

A math problem.

A small group within a larger group, usually a contentious minority.

A clear outline of something or the meaning of a word or phrase.

A mistaken belief that many people think is true but is actually false.

A person who publicly supports or argues for a cause or policy.

Related to school or scholarly subjects; theoretical.

Relating to ancient cultures; respecting tradition or the original way of doing things.

Controlled by what one knows is right and working hard to do things well.

Going far beyond what is reasonable or expected, especially in terms of price.

1. The act of evaluating and judging something 2. One's judgments or observations about a particular subject.

Hatred or malice.

To discover or catch.

To put in order; to arrange.

To get smaller; to shrink.

1. A geographical region 2. Part of a surface or space 3. A subject or field of study.

To remove or pull something out of another source.

Cognizant; knowing or informed about something.

Distinct, separate, or not continuous.

1. A part or quality of something 2. One part of a situation 3. Exposure; the way in which a structure is facing.

Occurring each year or payable on a yearly basis.

An unproved theory made on the basis of limited evidence.

To serve as a typical example of or to use an example to illustrate.

To command, have power over, or be the most important in a group.

To go along with, be associated with, or go somewhere with someone.

An advantage or something intended to help.

Fulfillment, success, or achievement; something that was done successfully.

1. To estimate or determine the value of something; to appraise 2. To evaluate.

To force someone or something out of its proper place.

To be a name or symbol for something or to indicate.

To question, test someone, or invite someone to take part in a competition.

To collect or bring together amounts.

A settlement of differences by mutual concessions; reducing quality or endangering interests.

Of utmost importance or extremely important.

Traditional; based on what is considered to be traditional or typical.

To do a favor or oblige someone; to provide space for people to stay.

The act of growing or increasing in amount over an extended period of time; agglomeration.

The gradual corroding or eating away of a subject; deterioration.

Quite large or substantial; worthy of recognition.

In a contrary manner.

To communicate with someone over the phone or by writing a letter, email, or text message.

The capacity to do something; a skill or talent in a specific area.

Therefore or for this reason.

Very happy and excited; exultantly proud and joyful.

To get or become worse.

To reach a conclusion based on available facts or to infer.

To take control or possession over it without permission, often by force.

A place where two rivers or streams join to become one.

To forge a copy of something for illegal reasons.

To show something to get admiration from others.

To publicly speak, write, plead, recommend, support, or argue for a cause or policy.

The ability or willingness to make changes.

Clearness of expression or thought; the ability to be understood.

Agreeable, suitable, or pleasing in nature or character.

Trustworthy and easy to believe.

A set of ideas that influence or govern a person or society.

Money given with the understanding it will be paid back, or recognition.

Sensational, pronounced, extremely sudden, or extreme.

An explanation or description of a specific event or situation; a narrative; the reasons behind a specific event or action.

A blessing or something helpful.

Something or someone that is silly, foolish, or pointless.

To attach or add something to a written work.

1. Help or support 2. The act of helping or supporting someone.

Achievable or capable of being done.

To enter a foreign country with the purpose of permanently living there.

To become more valuable, be grateful for, or understand the true meaning of a situation.

The conditions surrounding an event or a factor influencing something.

To occupy the attention.

Expressed in few words; clear and succinct.

To reduce or shorten something.

Pertaining to the economy, related to buying and selling goods and services.

Fully and clearly expressed, leaving no room for confusion.

The circumstances surrounding something or the words before and after something that help explain its meaning.

A period of ten years or any series of ten.

Free and ready to be used; not busy.

Related to house, home, family, or from one's own country.

Lasting for only a very short time.

To create or manufacture.

To spoil something by making it less pure or to pollute.

A contraption used to perform specific tasks.

To meet standards or comply with expectations.

Two people who are romantically involved or two similar things.

Agreement or compliance with a particular subject or issue.

To invent or develop something new.

To discover or recognize a person or a problem.

To determine or recognize the difference between two or more things.

A disagreement or dispute over a specific subject about which people have differing opinions.

A feeling of being very annoyed, disappointed, or embarrassed.

Equal to; of the same amount, size, value, meaning.

Very attentive to small details and wanting everything to be correct and perfect.

To grow together or merge into one body.

An object added to another to make it more useful or attractive; a person who helps commit a crime.

To collect or gather, to amass, or to increase in quantity or amount.

An act of breaking or failing to follow a law, rule, or agreement.

To calculate or determine using a calculator or computer.

Concise or short in duration.

To see, recognize, or understand something that is not very clear.

A table that has food on it, from which diners are expected to choose their own food.

The size or mass of something; the largest portion or part.

The act of moving into a new country to live there.

To take possession or control of something; to set aside for a specific purpose.

A belief or set of beliefs which affects one's behavior; a person's moral principles or standards.

Extreme sadness or a severe recession in an economy.

Selfish utilization of someone's work or abuse to gain advantage.

To empty something out; to make people move out of or away from an area that is in danger.

All conditions and circumstances that surround a specific person, animal, or thing.

Sufficient to fit the requirements or needs; good enough, but not excessively good; satisfactory.

Near, close to, neighboring, or touching.

To treat someone differently due to their origin, race, sex, or other traits.

To give goods, money, or time and effort to a person or group in order to help them.

Capable of burning or severely critical and sarcastic.

Supplies or tools needed to complete a task.

To increase, combine, make something worse, or pay interest.

Relying on observation or experiment rather than theory.

The center point of attention.

To predict, foresee, or prepare for something before it happens.

To make something brighter or to explain something clearly.

Clear and able to be seen; obvious or easily understood.

1. To give or allocate 2. To appoint 3. To designate 4. To attribute.

To show or present something.

Help or assistance.

A picture or a visual representation of something.

Lodgings used for travelers; a place to stay or live.

Consistent or logical; understandable.

Something that makes a person or thing different from the rest.

To divide and give out something for a particular purpose.

To use information from another source or to use as an example.

To cave in due to pressure or to fall down.

To change or modify it.

Contemporary; happening or existing at the same time.

To put something into effect or carry it out.

The act of modifying something so that it better fits one's needs; change or adjustment.

To grant something or to discuss/exchange opinions.

To judge; to closely examine something before determining its value.

To make changes or improve it.

A change made to a law or document.

Similar or related in a way that allows analogies to be drawn.

To bring a memory, feeling, image, etc. into the mind; to bring out; arouse; call forth.

Extremely thin due to illness or hunger; empty or barren.

A spherical shape; a map of the world printed on a sphere; the earth.

The promise that something will happen or that something is true; an assurance.

Unfriendliness or opposition; a strong feeling of dislike or hatred towards someone.

To give a false representation to; disguise or misrepresent.

To dedicate time or resources to something.

Something one gives or does in order to help reach a shared achievement.

To make a doubt, fear, or belief go away or end.

Dealing fairly and equally with everyone; just and impartial.

All-encompassing, thorough, extensive, dealing with most or all aspects of an issue.

A provision in a contract or a phrase containing a subject and a verb that is part of a larger sentence.

A way of entering or exiting a place; the right or permission to use something.

To grow larger or to add details or information.

To show or explain something, especially by giving examples.

To allow or agree with something; to grant permission.

To say something is not true or to claim one is not guilty.

Behaviors, beliefs, and standards shared by a group of people.

To talk with a person or a group of people; to have a conversation.

Meticulous or giving careful consideration to the details; exact; free from errors and mistakes.

Strange, unusual, or unconventional behavior.

Money or any medium of exchange.

Happening by accident or chance, especially in a lucky way.

Regular and not changing over time.

To make a guess or calculate the amount or value of something.

To revise and change errors in a document.

Unchanging and persistent over a long period of time.

Not traditional or offering a choice.

A series of events that repeat over time.

Developed from or based on something else; not original.

Determined in a random way; based on preference rather than logic.

To keep back, confine, or limit.

To create or build by putting pieces together.

To make changes to or to settle or adapt to a situation.

Clearly and easily seen or understood.

Cheerful, friendly, and sympathetic; pleasantly mild and warm.

Stubborn and unwilling to change; strong-willed.

1. To put something together by joining its parts 2. To bring people together into one single group.

The feeling of not liking someone or something and thinking they are unimportant.

To carefully think about something serious or weigh available options.

To move or speak in an unsteady, awkward manner.

Beauty or the appreciation of beauty.

To speed up; to make something happen at a quicker rate than normal.

To make someone able to do something or provide them with resources.

To arrange a document in a specific way.

The standards or rules on which something is judged.

Doubtful, questionable, or undecided.

Steady, hard-working, and careful in one's work.

To reduce or make smaller.

Although or even if.

A drawing or illustration displaying information or a detailed map for navigation.

To cause a great reduction in fullness or to use up.

Disagreement among people or things.

To believe something is wrong or to feel great sadness about it.

To misrepresent or change something from its original form.

To intensify, increase, or improve the quality of something.

The base on which something is built.

Obvious and easily noticed; attracting attention.

1. Protection, safety, or the right to stay, especially given by a government to people who have escaped from war or political trouble 2. An institution for the care of the mentally ill or the aged, the poor, etc.

To make something clearer or to remove ambiguity.

Of or relating to a specific group of people who share a common race, heritage, set of customs or traditions.

An individual unit that possesses its own unique characteristics.

Information or facts used to make decisions.

A duty or an activity that one must perform.

To express or indicate something indirectly.

To force people to comply with a rule or to accept something.

To eat or to use up completely.

A person or group that governs or manages a particular organization; the act of controlling a particular organization, group, or plan.

To create or bring about; to produce energy, like electricity.

To provoke or urge someone on; to tease or incite.

Too enthusiastic or unreasonably zealous about something.

To impact someone emotionally or mentally.

To be made up of, composed of, or to include; to contain.

To publicly declare support for something.

A fixed or standard way of doing something.

To eat away or wear away something; to slowly deteriorate.

Something that is resulting or logically following.

To show someone or something in a picture or to describe using words.

Different or separate; unmistakable.

Irregular in movement or behavior; not following a regular pattern.

To be composed of or to be compatible.

A rather large piece of property; all of one's possessions at death.

A person with a great deal of knowledge or skill in a specific subject.

1. A feeling of confidence in oneself or something else 2. A promise designed to give confidence.

To finish, terminate, or deduce based on observations.

The act of getting something or gaining possession of a skill or good; something that one gets or gains possession of.

A collision or the effect that an event has on a person.

Filled with unpleasant or undesirable things.

A fee for services rendered or a request to create a specific work.

To sell or send abroad or to introduce an idea from one country into another.

1. To succeed at something 2. To achieve 3. To reach or arrive at.

1. A trait or quality 2. A characteristic.

1. To increase something in size, quantity, or value 2. To enlarge 3. To enhance.

A change or modification that makes something more suitable or accurate for the person or situation; an adaptation.

The study or examination of something to understand it.

A rule or benchmark; information that tells how something should be done.

Majority opinion or a general agreement reached by a group.

A gathering or meeting of people or professionals with a shared interest.

A route through which water flows or a television/radio station.

The ability to withstand stress or an unpleasant situation.

A section of a book or a stage in a person's life.

The effort or power needed to do something.

To draw up a plan, get pregnant, or invent something.

To make someone comply with a law or rule.

Related to the central or national government.

To happen at the same time or to agree with.

To move nearer to it.

To give out or spread something over a surface.

Extremely large in size or quantity.

To make changes in order to fit a specific situation or purpose; to modify or alter something.

1. To fasten or join two or more objects 2. To include 3. To add a file to an email.

To formally set up or establish something.

Sparing or economical in use; not wasteful.

Not expressed clearly or open to several meanings.

A product that can be bought and sold; something useful or of value.

The act of transmitting information from one person to another.

Material that shows someone is innocent or guilty of something; material that proves something.

To pay someone for something lost or to make up for something negative.

Brave and noble; courteous and chivalrous, especially towards women.

World-wide; found around the world; comprehensive.

A rule or law governing an organization or a set of words/images used to communicate a message in a secret way.

Upcoming; approaching.

To get rid of or throw away.

A logical ordering of things; consistency.

A part or aspect of something.

To make it more bearable or relieve problems.

Helpful or useful in a particular situation, producing immediate results.

1. To believe that something is true without proof 2. To take on a role or responsibility 3. To adopt an idea.

Having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, or enthusiasm.

Unfriendly or unwilling to interact with others.

To press down, make someone feel sad, or to lower the amount of something.

The act of giving something out to people.

To start or begin.

A group of publications published at the same time or a specific version of a book.

The state of being unclear or open to multiple interpretations.

Something permitted by the constitution of a country or group.

A meeting of people with a similar interest to attend talks or sessions on a specific topic.

To limit or restrict; to forcibly keep someone or something in a certain place.

Firmly settled in a habit; established and unlikely to change.

Able to exist in harmony; well-suited.

Essential, of great importance, or basic.

A group of people born in the same general age; a period of around thirty years.

To shred something; to persistently annoy; to produce an annoying sound through friction.

Capable of enduring extreme conditions; bold or daring.

To accomplish, reach something through hard work, or succeed.

To change something; to transform.

A difference or variation between things that should be identical.

A decrease in value due to various factors or an instance of belittlement.

Willing to work with others.

To make sure that something happens or to guarantee.

To lead or guide.

1. Joined or fastened together somehow 2. Connected 3. Feeling love or attraction for someone.

Highly skilled or proficient at doing something; expert.

The state of having people from different races and cultures together.

To distract or make something move in a different direction.

The act or business of building things, especially structures.

A comparison designed to show similarities between things.

The force that pulls matter toward a center of attraction; seriousness or solemnity.

To make something happen sooner; to move or act quickly.

To come close to or be similar to something.

Exactly suitable; likely to do something; quick to learn or understand.

Possessing various characteristics.

Not explicitly said; implied or suggested.

Happening at a time in the future that has not been specified.

In the end; at an unspecified time in the future; finally.

A fight or disagreement between parties; a struggle or incompatibility.

To examine it critically or separate it into parts for better understanding.

One's sex or sexual identity; all members of a specific sex.

A level or rank; a number or letter indicating quality.

A group of people living in the same area or sharing common interests.

A person who purchases goods or services.

A lack of control or restraint; surrender to one's natural impulses.