TOEFL Vocabulary: Schedule and campus services

The vocabulary of arranging things: deadlines, appointments, rescheduling, refunds and receipts. Expect these in notices and emails about changed hours or a missed deadline, and in Write an Email prompts where you have to request, confirm or cancel something clearly.

Most useful for: Read in Daily Life · Listen to a Conversation · Listen to an Announcement · Write an Email.

The 40 words

Self-check: match the meaning

Cover the table above. Here are 8 of the 40 schedule and campus services words, starting with schedule: choose the word each definition describes.

1. a plan showing times for activities
   1. schedule
   2. late
   3. borrow
   4. staff
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   A. schedule

2. a scheduled period of activity
   1. confirm
   2. session
   3. open
   4. receipt
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   B. session

3. the part of day after noon
   1. request
   2. fee
   3. afternoon
   4. period
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   C. afternoon

4. to decide an event will not happen
   1. lend
   2. appointment
   3. morning
   4. cancel
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   D. cancel

5. to put a name on an official list
   1. register
   2. closed
   3. term
   4. delay
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   A. register

6. to gather or pick up something
   1. refund
   2. collect
   3. early
   4. reserve
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   B. collect

7. ready to be used or obtained
   1. deadline
   2. reschedule
   3. available
   4. submit
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   C. available

8. help provided to users or customers
   1. weekend
   2. apply
   3. renew
   4. service
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   D. service

Using schedule and campus services words on the test

• In Read in Daily Life, words like deadline and afternoon tell you what a notice or email wants you to do, so read them as clues to the writer's purpose.
• In Listen to an Announcement, reschedule and submit tend to mark the key change or instruction, so note them when you hear them.
• In Listen to a Conversation, listen for unavailable and refund as signals of what each speaker needs or decides.
• In Write an Email, use session or early only where it states your request or point exactly.

Other easy themes

• Campus places and movement
• Classroom work
• Study materials and records
• People and teamwork
• Messages and conversation
• Problems and solutions
• Time and quantity
• Features and relationships
• Everyday learning and change