High Frequency TOEFL Words

1.    Vacillate (v) – To waver
2.    Vacuous (adj.) – Empty
3.    Vagrant (n) – An idle wanderer
4.    Vainglory {n) – Excessive, pretentious, and demonstrative vanity
5.    Valediction (n) -A bidding farewell
6.    Valorous (adj.) – Courageous
7.    Vapid (adj.) – Having lost sparkling quality and flavor
8.    Vassal (n) – A slave or bondman
9.    Vaudeville (n) – A variety show

Tim Downs is an American author best known for his "Bug Man" series of novels featuring forensic entomologist Dr. Nick Polchak. The series includes the books Shoofly Pie (2003), Chop Shop (2004), First the Dead (2007), Less Than Dead (2008), and Ends of the Earth (2009).

In addition, Downs is the author of the novels Like Flies to a Corpse (2001), Plague Maker (2006), Head Game (2007) and Wonders Never Cease (2010). Although not a "Bug Man" novel, Plague Maker featured a cameo by Dr. Polchak.

TOEFL: War and Defence Vocabulary

1. Aggression / invasion – An unprovoked attack by an enemy.

2. Reconnoiter – to make an examination or a preliminary survey of enemy position before adopting any strategy of attack.

3. Salvo – The firing of many guns simultaneously to mark an occasion or to open an attack.

…A man, his horse and his dog were traveling down a road. When they were passing by a gigantic tree, a bolt of lightning struck and they all fell dead on the spot.
But the man did not realize that he had already left this world, so he went on walking with his two animals; sometimes the dead take time to understand their new condition…