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TOEFL iBT January 9, 2016 Speaking Task 3:@aalaeeTOEFLiBT The school announced that from next year, interview practice is required for every student in order to graduate. However, the woman in the conversation does not agree with it. First, she said that the interviews are all held by students themselves which is not very formal. No one is going to be nervous or taking it serious. Most of them won’t be preparing for it either because it is not like real interviews, the result doesn’t really matter. Second, during the graduation season, everyone is busy with their papers, exams, and part-time jobs. They do not have time to prepare for it or participate. It actually won’t help. @aalaeeTOEFLiBT

TOEFL iBT January 9, 2016 Speaking Task 2:@aalaeeTOEFLiBT Do you agree or disagree that celebrities such as artists and athlete should be the role model for people? @aalaeeTOEFLiBT

TOEFL iBT January 9, 2016 Speaking Task 1:@aalaeeTOEFLiBT The school allows students to keep pets in their dorms. Do you think it is good or not? @aalaeeTOEFLiBT

Word of the Day: MANIFOLD (MAN-i-fohld) Numerous and varied, consisting of many kinds, containing many elements, features, or characteristics: a large company with manifold operations and divisions; a challenging executive position with manifold responsibilities. Manifold may sound like a fancy substitute for many, but it's not. While many simply means much, a lot, manifold emphasizes variety, diversity. If your job has manifold duties then the things you do are both numerous and varied. Equally difficult synonyms of manifold are multifarious (MUHL-ti-FAIR -ee-us) and multitudinous (MUHL-ti-T(Y)OO-di-nus). Both manifold and multifarious mean having great variety or diversity: The human race is multifarious, and human nature is even more complex and manifold.Multitudinous means containing a multitude, consisting of a great number of persons or things: “After his promotion to management, Bob was sometimes overwhelmed by mountains of paperwork and multitudinous administrative chores.”

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Word of the Day: LEGACY (LEG-uh-see) Something handed down from the past, an inheritance. Legacy may be used in two ways. It may mean a gift of money or property provided by a will, an inheritance, bequest: “Her wealthy uncle left her a generous legacy.” It may also mean anything inherited or passed down through time: “The cultural legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has shaped Western civilization.”

Word of the Day: MONOTONOUS (muh-NAHT-uh-nus) Lacking variety, tediously uniform, unvarying and dull. Monotonous means literally having one continuous sound or tone. It combines the word tone with the prefix mono-, one, single. The prefix mono- appears in many English words, including monogamy (muh-NAHG-uh-mee), marriage to one person; monocle (MAHN-uh-kul), a single eyeglass; and monogram (MAHN-uh-gram), two or more letters woven into one. That which is monotonous is boring because it lacks variety. A monotonous speaker says the same thing again and again in the same tone of voice. Monotonous music is dull and repetitive. A monotonous job is one where the routine never changes. The corresponding noun is monotony (muh-NAHT’n-ee), a tedious lack of variety.

Word 28: ARBITRARY (AHR-bi-TRAIR-ee or -TRER-ee) Unreasoned, based on personal feelings or preferences rather than on reason, logic, or law: “An arbitrary price for a product is not necessarily a fair price”; “His arbitrary decisions have cost the company a lot of money.” Arbitrary comes from the same Latin source as the words arbiter (AHR-bi-tur) and arbitrator (AHR-bi-TRAY-tur). Arbiter and arbitrator both mean a judge or umpire who makes a final decision or resolves a dispute. Arbitrary means making discretionary judgments or decisions that may or may not be fair or reasonable. Arbitrary has two other useful meanings. It may mean determined or arrived at in a random or illogical manner. For example, the arrangement of furniture in a room may be arbitrary, without an evident theme or pattern; arbitrary decisions are arrived at in a hasty, haphazard way. Arbitrary may also mean exercising unrestrained or absolute power: an arbitrary government has no regard for individual liberty.

Word of the Day: SUPPOSITION (SUHP-uh-ZISH-in) An assumption, theory, hypothesis.To suppose means to assume as true, put something forward for consideration. A supposition is something supposed, an idea put forward for consideration. A hypothesis (hy-PAHTH-uh-sis), a conjecture (kun-JEK-chur), and a supposition are all assumptions or theories. A hypothesis is a preliminary or incomplete theory based on insufficientevidence: “There are conflicting hypotheses about the origin of the universe.” (The plural, hypotheses, is pronounced hy-PAHTH-uh-seez.) A conjecture is an assumption based on so little evidence that it is merely an educated guess: “Every week we hear different conjectures about trends in the stock market.” A supposition may be based on ample evidence or no evidence at all, and may be either sensible or irrational: “His suppositions about the company's financial condition proved consistent with the facts.”

Word of the Day: RESOLUTE(REZ-uh-loot) Firmly determined or settled, resolved, having a set opinion or purpose, steadfast, unwavering, persevering. Resolute comes from the Latin resolvere, the source also of the verb to resolve, which means to decide, determine, settle once and for all: “After much debate, the board of directors resolved to go ahead with the five-year plan.” “The lawyers tried to resolve the case out of court.” Resolute means resolved in one's opinion or purpose: “He was resolute about earning a master's degree and starting a successful business.” Antonyms of resolute include irresolute, unsteady, and vacillating (VAS-i-lay-ting).

Word of the Day: PERSONABLE (PUR-suh-nuh-buul) Attractive, pleasing in appearance, handsome, comely, fair, presentable. In recent years, personable has come to be used to mean having a nice personality. You should avoid using the word in that way. The words sociable, affable, and amiable already suggest people who are friendly, pleasant, and approachable. There is no need for personable to take over this sense. An awkward or unbecoming person, no matter how friendly and pleasant, cannot correctly be personable. Reserve personable for someone who is either attractive in appearance or attractive both in appearance and personality.