TOEFL is an academic English exam before it is anything else. The reading passages are textbook excerpts, the lectures are classroom lectures, and the questions come fast enough that vocabulary you have to stop and decode is vocabulary that costs you points across every section. The fastest general improvement most candidates can buy is to make academic vocabulary automatic.
This course drills that vocabulary rather than listing it: every item is an exercise with audio and an example sentence, scheduled by spaced repetition so words return exactly when you are about to forget them.
What the course covers
Nearly 1,300 exercises across 13 lessons, organized the way TOEFL sources its material:
- Subject-matter lessons matching the passage domains the test draws from — Life Sciences & Biology, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Physical Sciences, History & Archaeology, Arts, Architecture & Literature, Social Sciences & Psychology, Business & Economics, Technology & Engineering. Around 80–120 words each; these are the terms a lecture excerpt assumes you know.
- Core Academic Words (116 exercises) — built on the Academic Word List, the research-derived set of words that appear across all academic disciplines: analyze, derive, hypothesis, subsequent.
- Academic Collocations & Phrases (120 exercises) — lend support to, reach a consensus: the phrase-level academic English the integrated tasks reward.
- Synonyms & Paraphrasing (93 exercises) — reading questions routinely restate the passage; recognizing the paraphrase is the skill being tested.
- Transitions & Academic Discourse (77 exercises) plus a fill-in-the-blank practice lesson (76 exercises) that puts the vocabulary back into full academic sentences.
No sign-up needed to start. Every lesson is free.
What this course deliberately does not do
We would rather be straight about scope than make a bigger promise:
- Nobody scores your speaking or writing tasks here. The course builds the vocabulary those tasks draw on; scored practice belongs with the official materials or a teacher.
- The exercises are not TOEFL question formats. We drill the language, not the test mechanics — pair the course with official practice tests for format familiarity.
In exchange, the drilling is real: typed recall with audio, American spelling throughout, and a schedule that keeps every learned word alive while you add new ones.
How to use it
Work the lessons in order and let the schedule pace you, reviews first. The subject lessons build the passage vocabulary; Core Academic Words and the collocations lessons cover the cross-discipline layer that shows up in every single passage, lecture and prompt.
No sign-up needed to start. Every lesson is free.