342 toeic vocabulary tests meanings by word episode 1 part 8

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Q1 n carrier

(a) person or company that ships things; shipping company; truck

(b) citation; passage taken from another source; reference; commercial offer; statement of price

(c) something that continues for many years

(d) abrasion; cut; score of zero; cash; money (Slang)

Q2 n economy

(a) vagueness; lack of clarity

(b) something which is opposite

(c) enigma; riddle; game; jigsaw

(d) management of resources (i.e money, goods, etc.); thrift; careful spending

Q3 n offender

(a) customer; buyer; computer that serves as a terminal

(b) one who makes or alters garments

(c) transgressor; person who breaks the law; one who insults

(d) list of choices; list of commands or options which may be selected

Q4 n affiliate

(a) partner company; distributor

(b) percentage of profits earned by a salesperson

(c) arrangement; plan; sketch; drawing; something which has been arranged

(d) total number of people who subscribe to a particular publication

Q5 n agenda

(a) person granted legal custodianship over property not belonging to him

(b) type of fuel; gasoline

(c) happening; event; incident

(d) schedule; calendar; outline of things to be done

Q6 n pipe

(a) steward; stewardess; person who serves others; person who accompanies others

(b) close examination; scrutinizing look

(c) tube; trachea; flute; toot

(d) something which has been bought; act of buying

Q7 n option

(a) device which is used to slow or stop a vehicle

(b) direction; series of lessons or training units; layer; part of a meal

(c) choice; alternative; possibility; selection; election

(d) person who is tested; candidate

Q8 n breadth

(a) width; broadness

(b) separation; ridge between drainage areas; watershed

(c) manner of doing business; behavior; distribution; giving out

(d) degree; rank; height; plane; flat horizontal plain

Q9 n damage

(a) arrangement; instruction; command; request for something

(b) establisher; organization or channel; person who gives authorization to operate a channel

(c) piece of paper; attendant; servant

(d) injury; harm

Q10 n campaign

(a) unity; agreement; accord; pleasing balance; symmetry

(b) series of activities organized to accomplish a goal

(c) money management (including investment, banking etc.); science of money management

(d) person who puts money into a project

Q1 v dispense

(a) to operate; to activate; to manage; to direct; to carry out; to fulfill

(b) to do without; to give up; to distribute; to give out; to hand out

(c) to make circular shape

(d) to create or adapt for a particular need or desire

Q2 v remember

(a) to recall to the mind; to retain in one's mind; to have a recollection

(b) to assess; to appraise; to determine value; to grade; to classify; to sort

(c) to keep busy; to occupy; to employ; to commit

(d) to pack; to crate; to box

Q3 v broadcast

(a) to fight with fists; to put crates

(b) to divide; to separate; to be divided; to allocate

(c) to transmit over the radio; to publicize; to advertise

(d) to remind of; to state; to refer to; to hint at; to indicate

Q4 v destroy

(a) to demolish; to ruin; to destruct; to erase

(b) to fix; to repair; to correct; to calibrate; to adjust

(c) to register; to sign up; to join up; to enter one's name on a list

(d) to pull; to drag

Q5 v receive

(a) to support; to inspire; to give hope

(b) to get; to accept; to absorb; to take in; to host; to accommodate

(c) to duplicate; to imitate

(d) to think over; to believe; to regard; to take into account

Q6 v boost

(a) to cushion; to fill; to fill out; to walk; to go by foot

(b) to reward; to reimburse; to pay back; to make up for

(c) to store in a warehouse

(d) to raise; to push; to urge; to lift

Q7 n pollution

(a) contamination; dirtying; soiling; spoiling; destruction

(b) transmission; dispatch; radio program

(c) soldier of the three lowest military ranks

(d) substance obtained from a plant; essence; text paragraph; passage

Q8 v receipt

(a) to write a statement of purchases; to make a bill of sale

(b) to fill; to pack (with goods, cargo, etc.)

(c) to accept; to belief; to hug; to hold tight

(d) to seek to please; to flatter; to seek to gain the affections of someone

Q9 v party

(a) to gauge; to quantify; to assess; to evaluate; to estimate

(b) to put; to lay; to lodge; to nominate; to appoint

(c) to celebrate

(d) to make a graph; to draw; to diagram

Q10 v sample

(a) to draw attention; to captivate; to fascinate

(b) to lead; to be in charge; to direct; to be at the front; to go in a certain direction

(c) to raise an opinion; to adjust the tone of

(d) to take a small portion of something as a specimen

Q1 v fare

(a) to speak out; to move into a position of readiness and availability

(b) to travel; to go; to journey; to happen; to eat and drink

(c) to esteem; to cherish; to assess; to estimate

(d) to cipher

Q2 n prerogative

(a) chance; occasion; favorable time to act

(b) command; order; authorization granted from one body to a subordinate body

(c) joining; union; an ordered sequence

(d) right; special privilege

Q3 v come along

(a) to sail; to move at a moderate speed; to travel; to coast; to drive along slowly

(b) to compare in a critical manner; to verify; to collect; to compile

(c) to reach; to achieve; to fulfill; to realize (a goal, purpose, etc.)

(d) to accompany someone; to appear; to advance; to succeed

Q4 conj however

(a) up to the time which

(b) but; in spite of; despite

(c) precedes two or more coordinate words or phrases

(d) in what way?

Q5 n briefcase

(a) function; utilization; benefit; advantage; consumption

(b) advice; person who gives advice; attorney; lawyer

(c) act of redoing something

(d) small container for documents; tool for synchronizing files between two computers

Q6 n complaint

(a) instructional booklet; handbook

(b) trade; business; transactions; exchange of products/services and money

(c) finding fault; act of expressing displeasure; pleading entered by a plaintiff (Law)

(d) type of beef tenderloin; type of cavity with a broad base

Q7 n renovation

(a) commonplace activity; everyday task; habit; custom; practice

(b) secret agent; person who secretly investigates and gathers information about other people

(c) agreement; pact; deal

(d) act of repairing; renewal; act of restoring to good condition

Q8 adj compatible

(a) managerial; overseeing

(b) superior; supreme; above all; of the highest rank; most important

(c) congruous

(d) creative; new; original

Q9 n halt

(a) salesman; supplier; automatic machine for selling goods

(b) temporary stop; standstill; break or pause in a march or journey

(c) television or radio advertisement

(d) person who belongs to an organization or group; part; organ

Q10 v litter

(a) to hunt for; to look for; to investigate; to examine

(b) to worry; to cause concern; to annoy; to bother; to disturb

(c) to toss or dump garbage in an unauthorized place; to scatter objects in disorder

(d) to find the answer to; to explain

Q1 n fine

(a) total number of people who subscribe to a particular publication

(b) monetary penalty; punishment which involves the payment of specified sum of money

(c) tool; implement; device; appliance; agent; means

(d) newspaper that is published 5 to 7 times a week

(a) partner company; distributor

(b) piece of long fiction with a plot and characters; story

(c) representing something less strongly than what the facts would justify

(d) identifying characteristic

Q4 n incentive

(a) stimulus; inducement; enticement; encouragement

(b) business arrangement; client; funds deposited in a bank

(c) income; return; gains; government income earned through taxation

(d) fracture; pause; rest; opportunity; alteration

(a) punctuation mark; end; pause at end of a phrase; full sentence; age; season

(b) official institution; agency; power; control; jurisdiction

(c) height; distance above sea level

(d) quarrel; disagreement; argument

(a) not many; some; several; small number of

(b) choice; assortment; collection of items available to choose

(c) increase in salary; wage increase

(d) opposition; appeal; denial; protest

Q7 n session

(a) meeting; assembly; term; semester

(b) release; approval; washing

(c) small room; piece of office furniture; office; part of a government

(d) synopsis; general survey; introduction

(a) origin; starting point

(b) problem; misfortune; annoyance; cause of worry

(c) portable personal computer; laptop computer

(d) strength; power; force; bravery

Q9 n attendant

(a) property; site; area; grounds; building with the grounds belonging to it

(b) misgiving; lack of certainty

(c) decline; reduction; lessening

(d) steward; stewardess; person who serves others; person who accompanies others

(a) time free from work other demands and duties; free time; rest; recreation

(b) responsibility; duty; burden; impediment; blame

(c) act of going around; avoidance; evasion

(d) route through traveled by vehicles above ground level

Q1 v dismiss

(a) to establish; to found; to set up; to place on

(b) to delete; to skip over; to neglect

(c) to send away; to fire; to release; to free

(d) eject; drive out; banish

(a) to equip; to outfit with supplies

(b) to interpret incorrectly; to comprehend incorrectly

(c) to stay somewhere temporarily; to make an official inspection

(d) to provide additional details; to plan carefully and with great detail; to produce; to develop

Q3 v prioritize

(a) to organize according to importance

(b) to convey; to relocate; to hand over; to pass on

(c) to comply; to conform; to follow; to agree

(d) to bother; to trouble; to disturb; to upset

Q4 v average

(a) to take a small portion of something as a specimen

(b) to become larger; to cultivate; to be changed; to turn into

(c) to climb; to ascend; to weigh; to do according to a particular ratio

(d) to have a mean of a certain amount

Q5 v create

(a) to calculate; to figure; to estimate

(b) to produce; to design; to make; to manufacture

(c) to motivate; to stimulate; to provoke; to influence; to encourage

(d) to deal with; to stop; to undertake; to set about

(a) to arrange papers methodically for preservation and reference; to submit in a formal way

(b) to postpone; to dismiss from a job; to fire

(c) to motivate; to stimulate; to provoke; to influence; to encourage

(d) to sign over property to a creditor as security for money that is owed; to obligate

Q7 n information

(a) flat dish for serving food; portion; covering, coating; board

(b) knowledge; intelligence; data

(c) money in the form of coins and bank notes

(d) person who foretells future events; weatherman

(a) to refine; to improve; to complete; to make faultless

(b) to stop a vehicle; to slow down a vehicle

(c) to gather together; to group together; to press in

(d) to direct; to lead; to instruct

(a) to partition; to be partitioned

(c) to join parts together; to attach segments

(b) to deliver without charge(d) to try; to live through; to feel; to endure

Q10 v forecast

(a) to save; to cut back; to be thrifty; to be frugal

(b) to disregard; to ignore; to forget to perform (a duty); to shirk; to abandon

(c) to predict a future event or condition; to foretell

(d) to cover a hole with a piece of material; to use to cover a hole

Q1 v attire

(a) to dress; to put on clothes

(b) to sway; to oscillate; to vacillate; to fluctuate

(c) to make into a city

(d) to hurt; to wound; to insult; to offend; to damage

Q2 v pressure

(a) to apply force or weight; to push; to stress

(b) to arrive; to obtain; to procure; to extend the arm outward

(c) to inform; to direct; to guide; to command; to order; to educate

(d) to impede; to obstruct; to hinder; to meddle

Q3 v remind

(a) to cause to remember

(b) to measure time; to register on a time piece

(c) to rent; to inhabit; to occupy

(d) to indicate; to emphasize; to sharpen; to direct

Q4 v trail

(a) to give; to grant; to judge; to rule

(b) to perform; to carry out; to put into practice

(c) to examine

(d) to follow; to drag; to tow

Q5 v mistake

(a) to make an error; to be wrong; to confuse

(b) to relate to; to deal with; to process; to pay for

(c) to agree; to give; to bestow; to answer to; to donate

(d) to couple; to be part one of a match; to mate

Q6 n earnings

(a) schedule; calendar; outline of things to be done

(b) place where an event occurs; vista; view

(c) swindle; deceit; cheating; forgery; embezzlement

(d) money gained; salary; revenue; profit; income

Q7 n journalist

(a) reporter; person who writes for a newspaper or magazine; correspondent

(b) chauffeur; program which enables an operating system to communicate with a particular device

(c) person who is licensed to practice medicine (i.e physician, surgeon etc.)

(d) outcome; compensation; counterbalance

Q8 adj present

(a) exacting; choosy; ornate; nagging; annoying

(b) existent; in attendance; on hand; of the current times; pertaining to the current times

(c) impersonating; putting on a false appearance; feigning; arrogant; haughty

(d) simple; basic

Q9 v course

(a) to require that certain conditions be met before the signing of a contract; to specify; to require

(b) to hunt; to pursue; to run over; to race

(c) to sell; to trade or deal; to distribute; to promote

(d) to throw away; to discard; to destroy; to damage

Q10 v labor

(a) to continue; to suffice; to endure; to persist

(b) to mint; to invent a new word or phrase

(c) to be acquainted with; to understand; to distinguish; to be aware of

(d) to work; to toil; to exert oneself; to work hard

Q1 n daily

(a) newspaper that is published 5 to 7 times a week

(b) work clothing consisting of denim trousers (usually with a bib and shoulder straps)

(c) anything that is set up; institution (i.e business, church, authority, government, etc.)

(d) situation; requirement; circumstance; stipulation

Q2 n competitor

(a) rival; (i.e Coca Cola and Pepsi); person who participates in a contest

(b) letter of recommendation

(c) overseer; director; manager

(d) group of twenty items; debt; account; bill; grade on a test

Q3 n relationship

(a) appointment; proposal of a candidate (for an office or an honor)

(b) connection; association; closeness

(c) commercial center of a city; business distract

(d) entering into the feelings of another; sympathy; vicarious emotion; understanding

Q4 n resist

(a) protective coating

(c) business; commerce; barter; occupation

(b) location; description of a location(d) word or phrase functioning as a noun

Q5 n will

(a) make-up; constitution; essay

(b) comment; observation; notice

(c) attraction; lottery; contest which ends in a tie; natural channel; gully

(d) last testament listing inheritors of a dying person's property

(a) automobile; elevator; vehicle; ride

(b) lexicon; list of words and their definitions in alphabetical order

(c) income; return; gains; government income earned through taxation

(d) viewpoint, opinion; siting; locus; location; place; job

(a) means of connection; link; joint; connected group

(b) one fourth; neighborhood; coin worth 25 cents; period of three months; district

(c) partner; fellow worker; co-worker; friend

(d) foundation; grounding

Q8 v coordinate

(a) to clarify; to explain; to approve

(b) to make a scheme; to plot; to design; to contrive; to think up

(c) to arrange in proper order

(d) to inspect; to supervise; to miss; to omit; to ignore; to excuse

Q9 v prolong

(a) to collect; to gather; to accumulate; to store; to place in reserve

(b) to extend; to lengthen

(c) to signify; to be significant; to intend; to indicate

(d) to plead; to request; to petition for a new trial or judgment

Q10 n straight

(a) negative tendency (especially in economy or business)

(b) line that is not curved; section that is not curved

(c) person or company that produces and distributes printed material

(d) group of people who attend a seminar, a talk, etc

Q1 v arrive

(a) to give; to contribute; to grant; to bestow

(b) to dispute; to claim; to give reasons

(c) to straighten; to flatten; to make even; to equalize

(d) to reach a destination; to return; to come back; to succeed

Q2 v clear

(a) to direct; to lead; to instruct

(b) to relieve; to calm; to alleviate pain

(c) to clarify; to explain; to approve

(d) to reproduce quickly; to multiply rapidly; to thrive; to grow quickly

(a) to pretend; to feign

(b) to alter; to replace; to become different

(c) to confess to something; to allow entrance; to accept as valid

(d) to load; to oppress; to burden; to regard; to esteem

Q5 v regress

(a) to reinforce; to bind together; to strengthen a connection

(b) to misplace; to be deprived of; to be defeated; to fail; opposite of to win

(c) to move backward; to go back; to return to a previous condition

(d) to place in a row; to cover the inside of; to pad

Q6 v drill

(a) to bore a hole; to practice; to train; to sow seeds in rows

(b) to make better; to increase in quality; to enhance; to develop

(c) to understand; to contain; to grasp; to absorb; to perceive

(d) to control; to rule; to command

Q7 v quote

(a) to fix; to mend; to correct a problem or malfunction

(b) to converse; to speak; to spread rumors; to lecture; to reveal secret information

(c) to cite; to state a price; to offer a price

(d) to provide; to offer; to distribute; to supply; to sell; to trade

Q8 v proliferate

(a) to rub; to achieve or obtain with difficulty; to delete; to cross out

(b) to detain; to slow down; to capture; to imprison

(c) to reproduce quickly; to multiply rapidly; to thrive; to grow quickly

(d) to control; to arrange; to put in order

Q9 v complete

(a) to make whole; to finish; to perfect

(b) to arrange systematically; to structure; to group; to sort; to make confidential

(c) to meet; to assemble to gather; to get together

(d) to fight with fists; to put crates

Q10 v express

(a) to offer proof; to prove; to show to be true

(b) to declare; to say; to send quickly; to squeeze; to extract

(c) to cap; to cork; to stop up; to block; to advertise

(d) to celebrate

Q1 n shortage

(a) topic; subject; matter; question; problem; publication

(b) introduction; foreword; opening statement

(c) lack; scarcity; deficit; deficiency

(d) realization; carrying out; performing; putting into effect; execution

Q2 n catering

(a) boat for crossing a body of water; shuttle

(b) communication; information; announcement; note; memo; intimation

(c) pact; treaty; connection; relationship

(d) business of supplying and servicing food

Q3 v look over

(a) to make familiar; to present someone; to introduce someone

(b) to examine

(c) to suggest indirectly; to hint; to infer; to mean; to import

(d) to outlive; to remain in use; to outlast; to endure; to withstand

(a) gentle; good-hearted; understanding; compassionate

(b) capable of living; having a reasonable chance of succeeding; practical

(c) gloomy; cheerless; bad; depressing; sad

(d) decayed; decomposed; putrid; spoiled; despicable

(a) cameraman; person who takes pictures

(b) mail manager, person responsible for managing electronic mail on a network (Computers)

(c) mark; level; degree; rank; type; extend; class (in a school)

(d) piece of soft material which cushions; block of pages stacked together and connected on one side

Q7 n president

(a) a person who provides guidance; consultant; counselor

(b) mutual connection (between two or more things); similarity; parallel

(c) head; leader; chairman; chief

(d) component; element; factor; one of the substances which comprises a mixture

Q8 v resist

(a) to further; to encourage sales; to aid; to help; to assist

(b) to oppose; to fight against; to challenge; to withstand

(c) to fasten; to link to; to add; to ascribe to; to connect to

(d) to enter information into a chart; to postpone; to set aside for future consideration

(a) to couple; to be part one of a match; to mate

(b) to charge; to announce; to advertise

(c) to partition; to be partitioned

(d) to store in a large building

Q10 n venture

(a) an undertaking that is dangerous, daring, or of uncertain outcome

(b) indicator; something used to point; hand on a clock; clue; advice

(c) anticipation; longing or waiting for; hope

(d) cork; stopper; electrical connector; block; advertisement

Q1 n involvement

(a) one who donates money; person or organization that promotes or supports (an event, program, candidate, etc.)

(b) region; district; zone; area; domain

(c) security deposit

(d) inclusion; participation; connection; association; relation

Q2 n flaw

(a) defect; imperfection; crack; strong gust or wind

(b) action or instance in which the ball or puck is prevented from entering the goal

(c) back end; hindmost unit of an army (or fleet, etc.)

(d) inclusion; participation; connection; association; relation

Q3 n clearance

(a) work beyond regular working hours; pay for such work

(b) remark; note; statement; explanation

(c) release; approval; washing

(d) caution; advice about danger; advance notice

Q4 n clip

(a) clamp; fastener; shred; segment of video

(b) person who holds public position; authority

(c) money (in a bank account); trust; confidence; respect

(d) amount of money received in payment for goods or services or from other sources; revenue; profits

Q5 n misunderstanding

(a) incorrect interpretation

(b) slight difference; subtle distinction

(c) piece of soft material which cushions; block of pages stacked together and connected on one side

(d) inclination; tendency; disposition; aptitude

Q6 n sales

(a) marketing; activities associated with selling a product or service

(b) one who donates money; person or organization that promotes or supports (an event, program, candidate, etc.)

(c) test; quiz; investigation; inquiry

(d) prop; brace; economic assistance; upkeep; encouragement; aid

Q7 n brake

(a) ability; skill; trait; characteristic; quality

(b) device which is used to slow or stop a vehicle

(c) one of several separate payments into which a debt has been divided

(d) conformity; agreement; coordination; suitability

Q8 n last

(a) knowledge obtained by doing; something that one has lived through

(b) end; conclusion; final appearance; power of endurance; vitality; unit of weight

(c) mark; objective; aim; object; goal

(d) dividend; perk; monetary gift

Q9 n interior

(a) greater number or part; number greater than half of the total

(b) cause; agent; broker; financier; money lender

(c) inside a building; inland section of a country

(d) richness; prosperity; capital; fortune; abundance

Q10 n dictate

(a) distinction; unusual quality; disagreement; remainder

(b) ruling principle; command; decree

(c) force of movement; strength or motivation derived from an initial effort

(d) rope; cord; link; connection; equal score in a game

Q1 v decline

(a) to pass something through an opening

(b) to refuse; to go down; to decrease; to fall

(c) to make by machine; to produce; to fabricate; to invent

(d) to be conspicuous; to be noticeable; to project; to protrude

Q2 v talk

(a) to converse; to speak; to spread rumors; to lecture; to reveal secret information

(b) to go out of sight; to become extinct; to cease to exist; to vanish

(c) to travel; to go; to journey; to happen; to eat and drink

(d) to carry; to encourage; to assist financially; to substantiate

Q3 v imagine

(a) to envision; to fantasize; to visualize; to think; to assume

(b) to use; to apply; to employ; to control; to channel

(c) to work as an employee (i.e in the legal or bank business)

(d) to follow

Q4 v remark

(a) to ruin financially; to go bust; to go broke; to collapse

(b) to make an outline; to draw up in written form; to conscript; to draw out and separate

(c) to notice; to observe; to comment; to state; to say

(d) to raise an opinion; to adjust the tone of

Q5 v track

(a) to fit; to adapt; to adjust; to tune; to supply with an explanatory device

(b) to entrust; to order; to command; to supply with power

(c) to locate

(d) to follow

Q6 v lend

(a) to interest; to amuse; to host

(b) to make or to fit according to individual needs or desires; to personalize; to individualize

(c) to fasten; to link to; to add; to ascribe to; to connect to

(d) to give on a temporary basis; to give money as a loan; to donate

Q7 v career

(a) to evolve; to make to progress; to grow professionally; to develop; to speed

(b) to return money; to reimburse; to repay; to finance again

(c) to bore a hole; to practice; to train; to sow seeds in rows

(d) to bind; to fasten with a rope or cord

Q8 v weight

(a) to trade; to plan for and promote for sales of; to market goods

(b) to pretend; to feign

(c) to separate; to be separated; to decrease; to become smaller

(d) to load; to oppress; to burden; to regard; to esteem

Q9 v cure

(a) to incline; to slant upward or downward; to cause to tilt

(b) to restore to health; to make well; to correct a bad habit; to preserve food

(c) to withdraw from a position (usually due to old age); go into seclusion; to withdraw

(d) to fill; to pack (with goods, cargo, etc.)

Q10 v contract

(a) to confirm; to license; to authorize

(b) to appeal; to summon; to invoke; to implore

(c) to create a formal agreement; to bind legally; to obtain

(d) to assess; to appraise; to determine value; to grade; to classify; to sort

Q1 n grooming

(a) person who installs or maintains wiring systems

(b) understanding; wisdom; intelligence (Slang)

(c) process of making neat and attractive

(d) proof; something which proves or disproves

Q2 n retail

(a) lawyer; barrister; advocate; solicitor

(b) sale of products to final consumers; sale of goods to end users

(c) act of acquainting one person with another; preface

(d) perception of flavor; sense; reason

Q3 v default

(a) to delete; to skip over; to neglect

(b) to leaf through a book; to surf Internet websites

(c) to fail to perform a duty; to fail to pay on time; to fail to appear in court

(d) to assign to a particular post or position; to appoint

Q4 n resident

(a) inhabitant; one who lives in a particular location

(b) portion of a wall or fence that opens and closes; any barrier which opens and closes; entrance; entryway

(c) quality of being clearly seen

(d) belief in a particular thing or person; religion; trust; confidence; loyalty

Q5 n agreement

(a) applicant; nominee; examinee

(b) location; position; standing; role; function

(c) pact; contract; accord; consent; concurrence

(d) finding fault; act of expressing displeasure; pleading entered by a plaintiff (Law)

Q6 adj exclusive

(a) not healthful; not clean

(b) main; major; chief; principal

(c) sole; limited to a selected few; incompatible; fashionable; unique

(d) supplementary; auxiliary; secondary; lesser in importance

Q7 n chop

(a) adviser; counselor; person who guides and teaches; spiritual instructor

(b) seal; trademark

(c) act of redoing something

(d) security; warranty; pledge; assurance

Q8 n drill

(a) representative; rep; factor; cause

(b) decline; reduction; lessening

(c) practice; training; furrow; seeding machine; row of seeds in a furrow

(d) result; outcome; impact; trick; natural phenomenon

Q9 n collateral

(a) request for one's presence; summons; call

(b) security deposit

(c) devotion to a certain habit; dependency

(d) exchange of information or ideas; transfer; passing along; letter; message

Q10 adj immediately

(a) right away; shortly; at once; without delay

(b) pedantic; cautious concerning minute details; scrupulous

(c) advanced; ahead; ready; brash; of the future; progressive

(d) arranged in divisions; divisional; concerning an office

Q1 n gift

(a) present; talent; offering

(b) large container; tank; tub

(c) insurance; shelter; casing; front; lid

(d) heading; caption; right; ownership; championship

Q2 n logo

(a) graphic symbol which represents a company or organization

(b) the prospect that a bond issuer will fail to make required debt payments

(c) netting attached to a woman's hat

(d) failure to perform a duty; option on a computer which is automatically selected

Q3 n cancellation

(a) detention; imprisonment

(b) refuse; trash; disorder

(c) nullification; termination; revocation

(d) failure to perform a duty; option on a computer which is automatically selected

Q4 n pile

(a) prevention; rejection; leaving out; keeping out; shutting out

(b) deliverance; act of saving from danger or injury; act of freeing from risk

(c) heap; mound; wealth; fortune; group of buildings; dike; levee

(d) telephone conversation; visit; invitation; claim; need

Q5 n aircraft

(a) afternoon party where a light meal is served

(b) any vehicle which can be flown (i.e helicopter)

(c) selection; choice; assortment; accumulation

(d) toll; payment for services rendered; cost of admission; commission; feudal estate

Q6 n confirmation

(a) periodic wage paid to someone for work; pay

(b) border; limit; obstacle; barricade

(c) quality of occurring regularly; rate at which a function reoccurs

(d) formal approval; proof; verification; religious ceremony

Q7 n tool

(a) reduced price; sale on particular items; extra newspaper edition

(b) apparatus; device

(c) act of forgiving; discharging; dispatching

(d) delivery; dispatch; conveyance

Q8 v commute

(a) to calculate; to think; to assume; to portray; to depict; to express verbally

(b) to waver; to be uncertain; to vacillate; to falter; to be indecisive

(c) to hypnotize; to enthrall

(d) to exchange; to replace; to convert; to travel back and forth regularly (i.e to work)

Q9 n express

(a) system for prompt transportation of people or parcels; dispatch conveyed by special messenger

(b) merchandise; goods; item that is bought and sold; something useful

(c) link; connection; touch; interface

(d) act of providing; act of offering; work; labor; function; role; offer

Q10 n function

(a) duty; role; purpose; feature; convention

(b) spending; disbursement; outlay (especially financial)

(c) midpoint; middle; equally far from two extremes; average

(d) money management (including investment, banking etc.); science of money management

Q1 v bound

(a) to share company; to connect; to relate to; to combine

(b) to jump; to leap

(c) to receive as a result of work or other service performed; to profit; to be eligible; to be worthy

(d) to remove; to withdraw; to abandon; to exit; to depart

Q2 v presume

(a) to supply; to grant; to set; to offer

(b) to shape; to create; to design; to arrange; to be created

(c) to take for granted; to dare; to venture; to take liberties; to permit oneself

(d) to take away part of a whole; to remove; to deduct

Q3 v pretend

(a) to prophesy; to foretell; to announce in advance

(b) to exchange; to replace; to convert; to travel back and forth regularly (i.e to work)

(c) to impersonate; to act in a role; to claim; to assert

(d) to respect; to honor; to admire; to value

Q4 v accrue

(a) to chase after; to follow; to aspire to; to strive for

(b) to compile; to increase; to accumulate; to grow

(c) to detain; to slow down; to capture; to imprison

(d) to proclaim; to make a statement; to make a full statement of (one's taxable or dutiable property)

Q5 v categorize

(a) to enlist or draft new members; to gain; to obtain; to procure

(b) to arrange in groups; to classify; to sort; to structure

(c) to decorate; to imitate; to mimic; to copy an example

(d) to lessen; to diminish; to decrease

Q6 n semester

(a) money which is not generating profit

(b) selection; choice; assortment; accumulation

(c) aim; purpose, goal

(d) one of the two periods of an academic year (usually 15-18 weeks)

Q7 n takeover

(a) working, performance, handling; venture, undertaking; series of actions

(b) television or radio advertisement

(c) clamp; fastener; shred; segment of video

(d) act of assuming control of something (as in a government or business)

Q8 v mandate

(a) to issue a command; to make an official order

(b) to think over; to ponder; to contemplate; to heat and spice for drinking

(c) to breast-feed; to suckle; to provide medical care; to take care of

(d) to bother; to interrupt; to confuse; to worry

Q9 v devise

(a) to outlaw; to forbid by law; to interdict; to ban; to prevent

(b) to hide; to keep secret; to cover up

(c) to plan; to invent; to design

(d) to predict; to prophesy; to foretell

Q10 v infer

(a) to derive; to conclude; to guess; to surmise; to hint

(b) to make resistant; to make impervious; to edit

(c) to cede; to surrender; to give up; to forsake; to abandon

(d) to divide; to apportion; to receive a portion; to participate

Q1 adj general

(a) much; plenty; large; spacious

(c) inclusive; of all things

(b) suitable; fitting(d) tight; strait; reduced; not wide

Q2 v declare

(a) to proclaim; to make a statement; to make a full statement of (one's taxable or dutiable property)

(b) to prompt; to spur; to provide inspiration; to stir to action; to induce

(c) to cause not to happen; to avert; to delay; to impede; to hinder

(d) to support; to solidify; to strengthen

(a) to make new again; to renovate; to restore to good condition

(b) to record; to order in advance; to inscribe; to indicate

(c) to understand; to comprehend; to grasp

(d) to be ready or available; to work as an attendant; to postpone

(a) ball; sphere; planet Earth; world

(b) ruling principle; command; decree

(c) collective enterprise; group endeavor; collaboration

(d) part of an object designed to be gripped by the hand; fist name; nickname; code name; title

Q5 n photographer

(a) tolerance; forbearance

(b) cameraman; person who takes pictures

(c) list of information arranged in columns and rows; chart; flat surface

(d) advantage; profit; help; benefit

Q6 n grit

(a) agreement; business transaction; exchange; amount

(b) shortened form of a word or word combination

(c) small rough granules or particles (i.e sand); bravery; pluck; endurance

(d) person who works with pipe and water systems

(c) impartial; unbiased; existing outside of the mind

(d) common; shared; collective

(a) to acquire; to earn; to purchase; to obtain; to profit

(b) to irritate; to infuriate; to enrage

(c) to show; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to disclose

(d) to seize; to grip; to comprehend; to understand; to realize

Q10 v season

(a) to anticipate gladly

(b) to fail; to collapse; to defeat; to overthrow; to descend

(c) to spice; to flavor; to accustom; to acclimatize; to become experienced

(d) to cite; to state a price; to offer a price

Q1 n safety

(a) freedom from danger; quality of not causing injury or loss; any security device

(b) working together; cooperation

(c) act of making changes; alteration; proof sheet made to verify changes made and check for additional errors

(d) central stalk of a plant; petiole

Q2 n analysis

(a) commercial and market information that indicates overall economic trends

(b) a system of recording and analyzing financial transactions; auditing; a detailed financial statement

(c) manager; person or group of persons having administrative authority within an organization

(d) process of breaking down a subject and studying it; examination

Q3 n ownership

(a) container devoid of contents

(b) act of bringing back; restoration; act of finding information and sending it to the user as output

(c) person who designs gardens or large areas

(d) legal right of possession

Q4 n director

(a) support; skeleton; structure; system

(b) peripheral device used to convert objects or images into digital images (Computers)

(c) boss; supervisor; manager; head

(d) right to live in a country; condition of being a member of a country

Q5 n proposal

(a) ability; skill; talent

(b) motto; catchword; attention getting phrase used in advertising

(c) faithfulness; devotion; constancy

(d) suggestion; tender; plan; offer of marriage

Q6 n advancement

(a) astonishment; something which startles or astonishes; unexpected event

(b) contamination; dirtying; soiling; spoiling; destruction

(c) target; aim; purpose; objective; destination

(d) forward movement; progress; promotion

Q7 n company

(a) plentifulness; abundance; numerousness; plurality

(b) reaping; gathering in of crops; outcome; product

(c) supplier; seller; merchant; agent; sales representative

(d) corporation; firm; ensemble; association with another

Q8 n issue

(a) topic; subject; matter; question; problem; publication

(b) progress; reaching a new level; removal of a barrier; penetration

(c) sample; model; form; mold; decorative design

(d) supplementary charge; additional charge; amount paid for insurance; reward

Q9 n staff

(a) labor; task; profession; occupation; vocation; effort

(b) guidance; advance position; first place; guide

(c) specimen; small part of something; representative part of a larger group

(d) employees working in an organization; personnel; crew; team

Q10 n broker

(a) official document; license; reference; attestation

(b) act of forcefully taking possession of an area; seizure; conquest; possession or settlement of land

(c) back end; hindmost unit of an army (or fleet, etc.)

(d) middleman; agent who buys and sells property or shares etc for other people

Q1 v instruct

(a) to add a footnote; to place a note that directs readers to another source of information (in a book, journal, etc.)

(b) to set aside; to allot; to adapt; to embrace; to accept

(c) to make easy; to assist; to forward; to promote; to expedite

(d) to inform; to direct; to guide; to command; to order; to educate

Q2 v court

(a) to suck up; take up; take in

(b) to seek to please; to flatter; to seek to gain the affections of someone

(c) to be able to pay for; to supply; to provide

(d) to put a sum of money in a bank for safekeeping; to pay in part; to set down

Q3 v interrupt

(a) to reach a destination; to return; to come back; to succeed

(b) to knock down; to astound; to shock

(c) to appoint someone (for a position, office, or honor); to designate; to select

(d) to stop; to discontinue; to disturb; to bring a conversation to a halt

Q4 v choose

(a) to rely on; to trust; to be supported by

(b) to throw away; to discard; to destroy; to damage

(c) to crumble into granules

(d) to select; to prefer; to pick; to make a choice

Q5 v tackle

(a) to oppose; to retaliate; to react; to strike back

(b) to deal with; to stop; to undertake; to set about

(c) to counsel; to offer guidance; to notify; to inform

(d) to say that something is not true; to refuse; to renounce

Q6 v know

(a) to be acquainted with; to understand; to distinguish; to be aware of

(b) to advocate; to endorse; to speak well of; to advise; to suggest

(c) to notice; to observe; to comment; to state; to say

(d) to construct; to create; to increase intensity; to energize

Q7 v supervise

(a) to profit; to gain; to be advantageous

(b) to seize; to grip; to comprehend; to understand; to realize

(c) to situate; to place; to identify; to find; to settle

(d) to oversee; to administer; to direct; to manage; to watch over

Q8 v design

(a) to create; to conceive; to produce; to conceptualize

(b) to form a relationship with another person

(c) to meet; to assemble to gather; to get together

(d) to permit; to approve; to empower

Q9 v exhibit

(a) to send away; to fire; to release; to free

(b) to limit; to restrict; to contract; to lessen in width; to taper

(c) to show; to display; to demonstrate; to present

(d) to recover; to regain; to bring back; to fetch; to rescue

Q10 v select

(a) to provide with the required supplies, tools and items

(b) to try to get; to attempt to get

(c) to choose; to pick out

(d) to vote; to elect; to count votes; to make a survey