TOEIC Vocabulary: A Comprehensive Guide

The Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) assesses English proficiency in business contexts. Building a strong TOEIC vocabulary is essential for success on this globally recognized exam.

I. The Importance of TOEIC Vocabulary

Mastering TOEIC vocabulary offers several key advantages:

Improved comprehension: TOEIC includes business terminology that may be unfamiliar even to intermediate English speakers. A broader vocabulary helps you understand conversations and written passages more effectively.

Higher scores: Vocabulary knowledge directly impacts your performance across all test sections, allowing you to identify correct answers and understand nuanced content.

Time efficiency: Recognizing TOEIC words instantly means spending less time deciphering meanings and more time answering questions.

Workplace readiness: TOEIC vocabulary reflects language used in international business settings, preparing you for real-world professional communication.

II. TOEIC Vocabulary by Alphabet

TOEIC vocabulary starting with A

• Abandon

• Academic

• Ability

• Accept

• Absence

• Access

• Absolute

• Accommodate

• Absorb

• Accompany

• Abstract

• Accomplish

• Abundance

• Accordance

• Account

• Accumulate

• Accountable

• Accurate

• Achieve

• Activate

• Acknowledge

• Active

• Acquire

• Activity

• Acquisition

• Actual

• Act

• Adapt

• Add

• Adjacent

• Additional

• Adjust

• Address

• Adjustment

• Adequate

• Administer

• Adhere

• Administration

• Administrative

• Advance

• Admission

• Advantage

• Admit

• Advantageous

• Adopt

• Adventure

TOEIC vocab list starting with B

• Bachelor

• Bill

• Back

• Bind

• Background

• Biography

• Balance

• Blame

• Ban

• Blank

• Bank

• Blast

• Bargain

• Blend

• Barrier

• Block

• Base

• Board

• Basis

• Boast

• Batch

• Bonus

• Behalf

• Book

• Behavior

• Boost

• Belief

• Border

• Believe

• Borrow

• Belong

• Boss

• Benchmark

• Bottom

• Benefit

• Bound

• Best

• Brand

• Beyond

• Breach

• Bid

• Break

TOEIC vocabulary starting with C

• Cabinet

• Certificate

• Calculate

• Certify

• Calendar

• Chain

• Call

• Chair

• Campaign

• Challenge

• Campus

• Chamber

• Cancel

• Champion

• Candidate

• Change

• Capability

• Channel

• Capable

• Chapter

• Capacity

• Charge

• Capital

• Chart

• Caption

• Charter

• Capture

• Check

• Carbon

• Chief

• Career

• Choice

• Cargo

• Choose

• Carry

• Chronic

• Case

• Circular

• Cash

• Circulate

• Catalog

• Circumstance

• Catch

• Citation

• Category

• Cite

• Cater

• Citizen

• Cause

• Claim

• Caution

• Clarify

• Cease

• Class

• Celebrate

• Classification

• Cell

• Classify

• Center

• Clause

• Central

• Clean

• Century

• Clear

• Ceremony

• Client

• Certain

• Climate

Words starting with D

• Daily

• Detect

• Damage

• Deteriorate

• Data

• Determine

• Database

• Develop

• Date

• Development

• Deal

• Device

• Debate

• Devise

• Debit

• Devote

• Debt

• Diagnose

• Decade

• Diagram

• Decay

• Dial

• Decide

• Dictate

• Decision

• Differ

• Declare

• Difference

• Decline

• Different

• Decrease

• Differentiate

• Dedicate

• Difficult

• Deduct

• Difficulty

• Deem

• Digital

• Default

• Diligent

• Defeat

• Dimension

• Defect

• Diminish

• Defend

• Direct

• Defense

• Direction

• Defer

• Director

• Deficiency

• Directory

• Deficit

• Disadvantage

• Define

• Disagree

• Definite

• Disclose

• Definition

• Discount

• Degrade

• Discover

• Degree

• Discovery

• Delay

• Discretion

• Delegate

• Discriminate

• Delete

• Discuss

• Deliberate

• Discussion

• Deliver

• Disease

• Delivery

• Dismiss

• Demand

• Dispatch

• Demonstrate

• Display

• Denial

• Dispose

• Deny

• Dispute

• Depart

• Disrupt

• Department

• Disseminate

• Depend

• Distance

• Dependent

• Distinct

• Deploy

• Distinction

• Deposit

• Distinguish

• Depreciate

• Distribute

• Depress

• Distribution

• Deprive

• Diverse

• Derive

• Diversity

• Describe

• Divert

• Description

• Divide

• Design

• Division

• Designate

• Document

• Desire

• Domain

• Desk

• Domestic

• Destroy

• Dominate

• Detail

• Donate

TOEIC vocabulary starting with E

• Each

• Elect

• Earlier

• Election

• Early

• Electric

• Earn

• Electronic

• Earth

• Element

• Ease

• Elementary

• East

• Elevate

• Easy

• Eliminate

• Economic

• Elite

• Economics

• Else

• Economy

• Elsewhere

• Edge

• Email

• Edit

• Embark

• Edition

• Embrace

• Editor

• Emerge

• Educate

• Emergency

• Education

• Emission

• Effect

• Emotion

• Effective

• Emphasis

• Efficiency

• Emphasize

• Efficient

• Employ

• Effort

• Employee

• Either

• Employer

• Elaborate

• Employment

Words starting with F

• Fabric

• First

• Face

• Fiscal

• Facilitate

• Fit

• Facility

• Fix

• Fact

• Fixed

• Factor

• Flag

• Factory

• Flexible

• Faculty

• Flight

• Fail

• Flow

• Failure

• Focus

• Fair

• Follow

• Faith

• Force

• Fall

• Forecast

• False

• Foreign

• Familiar

• Foresee

• Family

• Forest

• Famous

• Forever

• Far

• Forget

• Farm

• Form

• Fashion

• Formal

• Fast

• Format

• Fasten

• Formation

• Fault

• Former

• Favor

• Formula

• Favorable

• Formulate

• Favorite

• Forth

• Feasible

• Fortune

• Feature

• Forum

• Fee

• Forward

• Feed

• Foster

• Feedback

• Foundation

• Feel

• Found

• Fellow

• Frame

• Field

• Framework

• Figure

• Franchise

• File

• Free

• Fill

• Freedom

• Film

• Freight

• Filter

• Frequency

• Final

• Frequent

• Finance

• Fresh

• Financial

• Friend

• Find

• Front

• Fine

• Fulfill

• Finish

• Full

• Firm

• Function

TOEIC vocabulary starting with G

• Gain

• Generate

• Gallery

• Generation

• Gap

• Generator

• Gather

• Generic

• Gender

• Genuine

• General

• Geographic

• Get

• Gift

• Give

• Global

• Glad

• Globalization

• Glass

• Goal

Words starting with H

• Habit

• Holiday

• Half

• Home

• Hall

• Honor

• Handle

• Hope

• Happen

• Hospital

• Happy

• Host

• Harbor

• Hot

• Hard

• Hour

• Hardware

• House

• Harm

• However

• Harvest

• Hub

• Hazard

• Huge

• Head

• Human

• Headquarters

• Hundred

• Health

• Hurry

• Hear

• Hygiene

• Heart

• Hypothesis

• Heat

• Heavy

• Height

• Help

• Hence

• Hesitate

• Hidden

• Hide

• High

• Highlight

• Highway

• Hire

• Historic

• History

• Hold

Words starting with I

• Idea

• Infrastructure

• Ideal

• Inherent

• Identical

• Initial

• Identify

• Initiative

• Identity

• Injury

• Idle

• Innovation

• Ignore

• Innovative

• Illegal

• Input

• Illusion

• Inquiry

• Illustrate

• Insert

• Image

• Insight

• Imagination

• Inspect

• Imagine

• Inspection

• Immediate

• Install

• Immense

• Installation

• Impact

• Instance

• Impair

• Instead

• Implement

• Institute

• Implication

• Institution

• Implicit

• Instruction

• Imply

• Instrument

• Import

• Insufficient

• Importance

• Insurance

• Important

• Insure

• Impose

• Intact

• Impossible

• Integral

• Impress

• Integrate

• Impression

• Integration

• Improve

• Integrity

• Improvement

• Intellectual

• Impulse

• Intelligence

• Incentive

• Intend

• Incidence

• Intense

• Incident

• Intensity

• Include

• Intensive

• Inclusion

• Intent

• Income

• Intention

• Incorporate

• Interact

• Increase

• Interaction

• Incredible

• Interest

• Incur

• Interface

• Independence

• Interfere

• Independent

• Interior

• Index

• Intermediate

• Indicate

• Internal

• Indication

• International

• Indicator

• Internet

• Indigenous

• Interpret

• Individual

• Interpretation

• Induce

• Interrupt

• Industrial

• Interval

• Industry

• Intervene

• Inefficient

• Intervention

• Inevitable

• Interview

• Inexpensive

• Intimate

• Infection

• Introduce

• Inference

• Introduction

• Inferior

• Intuitive

• Infinite

• Invent

• Influence

• Invention

• Inform

• Inventory

• Information

• Invest

TOEIC vocabulary starting with J

• Idea

• Infrastructure

• Ideal

• Inherent

• Identical

• Initial

• Identify

• Initiative

• Identity

• Injury

• Idle

• Innovation

• Ignore

• Innovative

• Illegal

• Input

• Illusion

• Inquiry

• Illustrate

• Insert

• Image

• Insight

• Imagination

• Inspect

• Imagine

• Inspection

• Immediate

• Install

• Immense

• Installation

• Impact

• Instance

• Impair

• Instead

• Implement

• Institute

• Implication

• Institution

• Implicit

• Instruction

• Imply

• Instrument

• Import

• Insufficient

• Importance

• Insurance

• Important

• Insure

• Impose

• Intact

• Impossible

• Integral

• Impress

• Integrate

• Impression

• Integration

• Improve

• Integrity

• Improvement

• Intellectual

• Impulse

• Intelligence

• Incentive

• Intend

• Incidence

• Intense

• Incident

• Intensity

• Include

• Intensive

• Inclusion

• Intent

• Income

• Intention

• Incorporate

• Interact

• Increase

• Interaction

• Incredible

• Interest

• Incur

• Interface

• Independence

• Interfere

• Independent

• Interior

• Index

• Intermediate

• Indicate

• Internal

• Indication

• International

• Indicator

• Internet

• Indigenous

• Interpret

• Individual

• Interpretation

• Induce

• Interrupt

• Industrial

• Interval

• Industry

• Intervene

• Inefficient

• Intervention

• Inevitable

• Interview

• Inexpensive

• Intimate

• Infection

• Introduce

• Inference

• Introduction

• Inferior

• Intuitive

• Infinite

• Invent

• Influence

• Invention

• Inform

• Inventory

• Information

• Invest

TOEIC vocabulary starting with K

• Keep

• Known

• Key

• Keyboard

• Kind

• Knowledge

Words starting with L

• Label

• Legislature

• Labor

• Legitimate

• Laboratory

• Leisure

• Lack

• Length

• Land

• Less

• Language

• Lesson

• Large

• Letter

• Last

• Level

• Late

• Leverage

• Later

• Liability

• Latest

• Liberal

• Launch

• Library

• Law

• License

• Layer

• Life

• Layout

• Lifestyle

• Lead

• Lifetime

• Leader

• Light

• Leadership

• Like

• League

• Likelihood

• Learn

• Limit

• Lease

• Limitation

• Least

• Limited

• Leave

• Line

• Lecture

• Linear

• Legal

• Link

• Legend

• List

• Legislation

• Listen

Words starting with M

• Machine

• Medium

• Magazine

• Meet

• Magnificent

• Meeting

• Mail

• Member

• Main

• Membership

• Maintain

• Memorandum

• Maintenance

• Memory

• Major

• Mention

• Majority

• Menu

• Make

• Merchant

• Management

• Merge

• Manager

• Merit

• Mandate

• Message

• Manipulate

• Method

• Manner

• Methodology

• Manual

• Metric

• Manufacture

• Middle

• Manufacturer

• Migration

• Many

• Mile

• Map

• Military

• Margin

• Mind

• Marine

• Minimal

• Mark

• Minimize

• Market

• Minimum

• Marketing

• Mining

• Mass

• Minor

• Master

• Minority

• Match

• Minute

• Material

• Minutes

• Mathematics

• Miscellaneous

• Matter

• Miss

• Maximum

• Mission

• Mean

• Mistake

• Meaning

• Mix

• Means

• Mobile

• Measure

• Mode

• Measurement

• Model

• Mechanism

• Moderate

• Media

• Modern

• Medical

• Modification

TOEIC vocabulary starting with N

• Name

• New

• Narrative

• News

• Narrow

• Next

• Nation

• Nice

• National

• Night

• Native

• Node

• Natural

• Noise

• Nature

• Nominal

• Navigate

• Nominate

• Nearby

• Nomination

• Nearly

• Non

• Neat

• None

• Necessarily

• Normal

• Necessary

• North

• Need

• Notable

• Negative

• Note

• Neglect

• Nothing

• Negotiate

• Notice

• Negotiation

• Notion

• Neighbor

• Novel

• Neither

• Number

• Net

• Numerous

• Network

• Nutrition

• Neutral

• Nevertheless

TOEIC vocabulary starting with O

• Object

• Operation

• Objection

• Operational

• Objective

• Operator

• Obligation

• Opinion

• Observation

• Opportunity

• Observe

• Oppose

• Obtain

• Opposite

• Obvious

• Opposition

• Occasion

• Optimal

• Occasional

• Optimize

• Occupation

• Option

• Occupy

• Order

• Occur

• Ordinary

• Occurrence

• Organic

• Ocean

• Organization

• Offer

• Organize

• Office

• Orient

• Officer

• Orientation

• Official

• Origin

• Often

• Original

• Oil

• Originate

• Omit

• Other

• Once

• Otherwise

• Ongoing

• Outcome

• Online

• Outline

• Only

• Output

• Open

• Outside

• Operate

• Outstanding

Words starting with P

• Package

• Predict

• Page

• Prediction

• Pain

• Prefer

• Paint

• Preference

• Panel

• Preliminary

• Paper

• Premise

• Paradigm

• Premium

• Paragraph

• Preparation

• Parallel

• Prepare

• Parameter

• Prescribe

• Parent

• Prescription

• Park

• Presence

• Part

• Present

• Participant

• Presentation

• Participate

• Preserve

• Participation

• President

• Particular

• Press

• Partner

• Pressure

• Partnership

• Prestige

• Party

• Presumably

• Pass

• Prevail

• Passage

• Prevent

• Passenger

• Prevention

• Passion

• Previous

• Past

• Price

• Path

• Primary

• Patient

• Prime

• Pattern

• Principal

• Pause

• Principle

• Pay

• Print

• Payment

• Prior

• Peace

• Priority

• Peak

• Private

• Peer

• Privilege

• Penalty

• Prize

• Pending

• Probability

• People

• Probably

• Perceive

• Problem

• Percent

• Procedure

• Percentage

• Proceed

• Perception

• Process

• Perfect

• Produce

• Perform

• Producer

• Performance

• Product

• Perhaps

• Production

• Period

• Productive

• Periodic

• Professional

• Permanent

• Profile

• Permission

• Profit

• Permit

• Program

• Persist

• Progress

• Person

• Project

• Personal

• Projection

• Personnel

• Prolong

• Perspective

• Prominent

• Persuade

• Promise

• Phase

• Promote

• Philosophy

• Promotion

• Phone

• Prompt

• Photo

• Proof

• Photograph

• Proper

• Phrase

• Property

• Physical

• Proportion

• Pick

• Proposal

• Picture

• Propose

• Piece

• Proposition

• Pioneer

• Prospect

• Place

• Prosperity

• Plan

• Protect

• Plant

• Protection

• Platform

• Protest

• Play

• Protocol

• Player

• Prove

• Please

• Provide

• Pleasure

• Provider

• Plenty

• Province

• Plot

• Provision

• Plus

• Proximity

• Point

• Public

• Policy

• Publication

• Political

• Publicity

• Politics

• Publish

• Poll

• Purchase

• Pollution

• Purpose

• Pool

• Pursue

• Popular

• Push

• Population

• Put

• Portfolio

• Portion

• Portrait

• Pose

• Position

• Positive

• Possess

• Possibility

• Possible

• Post

• Potential

• Power

• Practical

• Practice

• Praise

• Precede

• Precedent

• Precise

• Precision

Words starting with Q

• Qualification

• Quarter

• Qualify

• Query

• Quality

• Question

• Quantity

• Queue

• Quick

• Quiet

• Quit

• Quota

• Quote

TOEIC vocabulary starting with R

• Race

• Refuse

• Radio

• Regard

• Rail

• Regarding

• Railway

• Regardless

• Rain

• Region

• Raise

• Regional

• Random

• Register

• Range

• Registration

• Rank

• Regular

• Rapid

• Regulate

• Rate

• Regulation

• Rather

• Regulatory

• Rating

• Rehearsal

• Ratio

• Reinforce

• Raw

• Reject

• Reach

• Relate

• React

• Relation

• Reaction

• Relationship

• Read

• Relative

• Reader

• Relax

• Reading

• Release

• Ready

• Relevant

• Real

• Reliability

• Reality

• Reliable

• Realize

• Relief

• Reason

• Relieve

• Reasonable

• Rely

• Recall

• Remain

• Receipt

• Remainder

• Receive

• Remark

• Recent

• Remarkable

• Reception

• Remember

• Recipe

• Remind

• Recognition

• Remote

• Recognize

• Remove

• Recommend

• Render

• Recommendation

• Renew

• Record

• Rent

• Recover

• Repair

• Recovery

• Repeat

• Recruit

• Replace

• Recruitment

• Replacement

• Recur

• Reply

• Reduce

• Report

• Reduction

• Represent

• Refer

• Representative

• Reference

• Reproduce

• Refine

• Republic

• Reflect

• Reputation

• Reflection

• Request

• Reform

• Require

• Refund

• Requirement

TOEIC vocabulary starting with S

• Sacred

• Slide

• Safe

• Slight

• Safety

• Slim

• Sake

• Slip

• Salary

• Slot

• Sale

• Slow

• Sales

• Small

• Sample

• Smart

• Sanction

• Smooth

• Satisfaction

• Social

• Satisfy

• Society

• Save

• Software

• Scale

• Soil

• Scan

• Solar

• Scenario

• Sole

• Scene

• Solid

• Schedule

• Solution

• Scheme

• Solve

• Scholarship

• Some

• School

• Somewhat

• Science

• Soon

• Scientific

• Sophisticated

• Scope

• Sort

• Score

• Sound

• Screen

• Source

• Script

• South

• Search

• Space

• Season

• Spare

• Seat

• Speak

• Second

• Speaker

• Secondary

• Special

• Secret

• Specialist

• Secretary

• Specialize

• Section

• Specific

• Sector

• Specify

• Secure

• Spectrum

• Security

• Speech

• See

• Speed

• Seek

• Spend

• Seem

• Spin

• Segment

• Spirit

• Select

• Split

• Selection

• Sponsor

• Self

• Spot

• Sell

• Spread

• Seminar

• Spring

• Send

• Square

• Senior

• Stability

• Sense

• Stable

• Sensitive

• Staff

• Sentence

• Stage

• Separate

• Stake

• Sequence

• Stamp

• Series

• Stand

• Serious

• Standard

• Serve

• Star

• Service

• Start

• Session

• State

• Set

• Statement

• Setting

• Static

• Settle

• Station

• Settlement

• Statistical

• Several

• Statistics

• Severe

• Status

• Shape

• Stay

• Share

• Steady

• Sharp

• Step

• Sheet

• Still

• Shelf

• Stimulate

• Shell

• Stimulus

• Shelter

• Stock

• Shift

• Storage

• Ship

• Store

• Shipment

• Storm

• Shipping

• Story

• Shop

• Straight

• Shore

• Strain

• Short

• Strategic

• Shot

• Strategy

• Should

• Stream

• Show

• Street

• Shrink

• Strength

• Shut

• Strengthen

• Side

• Stress

• Sight

• Stretch

• Sign

• Strict

• Signal

• Strike

• Signature

• String

• Significance

• Strong

• Significant

• Structure

• Similar

• Struggle

• Simple

• Student

• Simulate

• Study

• Simulation

• Style

• Simultaneous

• Subject

• Since

• Submit

• Single

• Subsequent

• Site

• Subsidiary

• Situation

• Substance

• Size

• Substantial

• Skill

• Substitute

TOEIC vocabulary starting with T

• Table

• Tool

• Tackle

• Top

• Tactic

• Topic

• Tag

• Total

• Take

• Touch

• Talk

• Tour

• Target

• Tourism

• Task

• Tourist

• Taste

• Tournament

• Tax

• Toward

• Team

• Trace

• Technical

• Track

• Technique

• Trade

• Technology

• Tradition

• Telecommunications

• Traditional

• Telephone

• Traffic

• Television

• Train

• Tell

• Training

• Temporary

• Transaction

• Tend

• Transfer

• Tendency

• Transform

• Tension

• Transformation

• Term

• Transit

• Terminal

• Transition

• Terminate

• Translate

• Terms

• Translation

• Territory

• Transmission

• Test

• Transmit

• Testify

• Transport

• Text

• Transportation

• Thank

• Travel

• Theory

• Treat

• Therefore

• Treatment

• Think

• Treaty

• Third

• Tremendous

• Thorough

• Trend

• Though

• Trial

• Thought

• Tribe

• Threat

• Trigger

• Threaten

• Trip

• Threshold

• Triumph

• Thrive

• Trouble

• Through

• True

• Throughout

• Trust

• Throw

• Try

• Ticket

• Tube

• Tight

• Turn

• Time

• Turnover

• Timeline

• Type

• Timetable

• Typical

• Timing

• Title

• Today

• Together

• Token

• Tolerance

• Tomorrow

• Tone

TOEIC vocabulary starting with U

• Ultimate

• Uncover

• Under

• Undergo

• Understand

• Understanding

• Undertake

• Uniform

• Union

• Unique

• United

• Universal

• Universe

• Unknown

• Unless

• Unlike

• Unlikely

• Unprecedented

• Until

• Unusual

• Update

• Upgrade

• Upon

• Upper

• Urban

• Urge

• Urgent

• Usage

• Use

• Useful

• User

• Utility

• Utilize

• Utterly

Words starting with V

• Vacant

• Vacation

• Valid

• Validate

• Value

• Variety

• Various

• Vary

• Vehicle

• Vendor

• Venture

• Venue

• Verify

• Version

• Versus

• Very

• Vessel

• Via

• Viable

• Vibrant

• Victim

• Victory

• Video

• View

• Virtual

• Vision

• Visit

• Visual

• Vital

• Vocabulary

• Voice

• Volume

• Voluntary

• Vote

• Vulnerable

TOEIC vocabulary starting with W

• Wage

• Wait

• Wake

• Walk

• Wall

• Wander

• Want

• War

• Warehouse

• Warm

• Warn

• Warning

• Warrant

• Warranty

• Waste

• Watch

• Water

• Wave

• Way

• Weak

• Wealth

• Weapon

• Wear

• Weather

• Web

• Website

• Week

• Weekly

• Weigh

• Weight

• Welcome

• Welfare

• Well

• Western

• Whereas

• Whether

• While

• White

• Whole

• Wholesale

• Whom

• Wide

• Widespread

• Width

• Wild

• Will

• Willing

• Win

• Wind

• Window

• Wing

• Winner

• Winter

• Wire

• Wisdom

• Wise

• Wish

• Withdraw

• Withhold

• Within

• Without

• Witness

• Wonder

• Word

• Work

• Worker

• Workforce

• Working

• Workplace

• Workshop

• World

• Worldwide

• Worry

• Worth

• Worthwhile

• Would

• Wrap

• Write

• Writer

• Writing

• Written

• Wrong

TOEIC vocabulary starting with Y

• Yard

• Year

• Yearly

• Yield

• Youth

TOEIC vocabulary starting with Z

• Zero

• Zone

Systematically studying this TOEIC dictionary enhances your test performance and business English communication skills. Practice using these words in context through sentence formation, flashcards, and regular review to incorporate them into your active vocabulary.

PREP wishes students to master TOEIC vocabulary as it is the foundation for success on the exam. As your knowledge provider, PREP is committed to supporting your language learning journey with essential resources that prepare you for both the test and real-world business communication. Remember that consistent practice with these vocabulary terms will significantly improve your chances of achieving your target score.