3420 TOEIC Vocabulary meanings by Word part 24

sharpa occasion; instance; situation; bag b sewing needle; swindler; cheater; professional gambler c rule enacted by a community or country; custom; principle; convention d substance; co

Q1 n sharp

(a) occasion; instance; situation; bag

(b) sewing needle; swindler; cheater; professional gambler

(c) rule enacted by a community or country; custom; principle; convention

(d) substance; component; all that is inside of something

(a) cause; basis for action; intelligence; sense

(b) afternoon party where a light meal is served

(c) shape having three sides and three corners; group of three

(d) release; approval; washing

(a) tanned and preserved animal skin; item made of animal skin

(b) something which enhances or improves; addition or change which adds value to something

(c) variety; collection; selection; range; mixture

(d) aircraft which flies by means of horizontally rotating blades

(a) behavior; conduct; bearing; appearance

(c) delivery; dispatch; conveyance

(b) class; division; section; segment (d) claim; requirement; strong request

Q5 n century

(a) period of one hundred years

(b) expansion; growth; range; story or advertisement that covers two pages

(c) short dash; short line used to connect or separate words or syllables (-)

(d) leveling; harmony; stability; rest; remainder

Q6 n blue sky laws

(a) one who relies on another especially for financial support

(b) rules introduced by the government to regulate the trade of securities and mutual funds

(c) payment given for regularly scheduled performances or publications

(d) calculation of size or extent; assessment of capacity or dimension

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

(b) alliance; union; agreement

(c) the U.S treasury

(d) beginning letter of a person's first name; first letter (as of a word)

(a) reference point; geographical location

(b) caption beneath an illustration

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

(d) preciseness; exactness

Q9 n ill

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

(b) standard of measure; device for measuring (pressure, amount, distance, etc.)

(c) withdrawal from one's job or occupation

(d) trouble; misfortune; evil; harm; disease; sickness

Q10 n diet

(a) nourishment; nutrition; food and drink; regimen; weight loss plan

(b) preference; precedence; higher rank; privileged position; seniority

(c) inventory of legal investments for savings banks and trust funds

(d) careful observation of a person or group

Q1 v voyage

(a) to make haste; to rush; to urge; to prod; to dash

(b) to anticipate gladly

(c) to take a cruise; to travel; to make a journey

(d) to labor; to act; to operate; to activate; to process

Q2 v procure

(a) to obtain; to acquire; to get; to buy; to purchase

(b) to impose a tariff; to impose a levy; to burden; to demand too much

(c) to attempt to discover or test something; to try; to venture; to research

(d) to mark as different; to see as different; to discern; to recognize

Q3 v industrialize

(a) to channel; to centralize

(b) to innovate and develop production

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

(d) to establish; to erect; to throw; to toss

Q4 v alter

(a) to infer; to conjecture; to guess; to presume

(b) to measure; to evaluate; to determine; to estimate

(c) to change; to modify

(d) to pull by force; to twist; to cut off; to distort; to pervert

Q5 v line

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

(b) eject; drive out; banish

(c) to happen; to take place; to transpire; to come to mind; to suggest itself

(d) to reconstruct; to erect again

Q6 v adjust

(a) to raise money for; to provide with funds; to fund; to pay for

(b) to separate into sections; to partition

(c) to have a mean of a certain amount

(d) to modify; to adapt; to fit; to arrange; to settle

Q7 v edit

(a) to respect deeply; to honor greatly

(b) to join with; to connect to; to become attached to

(c) to revise; to alter; to make changes and corrections prior to printing

(d) to describe; to depict; to portray; to outline

Q8 v speed

(a) to accelerate; to cause to move quickly; to expedite; to further; to hurry

(b) to want; to command; to determine; to decide

(c) to be compatible; to be suitable; to be an equal competitor; to compare

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

Q9 v strike

(a) to temporarily cease working as a protest; to impress

(b) to communicate data to; to tell; to brief; to notify

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

(d) to go regularly to (a certain place); to patronize

Q10 v insert

(a) to place in; to put in; to add to

(b) to stop; to cause to stop; to pause; to hesitate; to be uncertain

(c) to estimate; to compute; to depend upon

(d) to enter

Q1 n wallpaper

(a) picture or design used as a background for the other images in a graphical user interface

(b) conjecture; supposition; hypothesis

(c) sharp stinging pain

(d) intimidation; constraint; pressure; coercion

Q2 n design

(a) detail; individual characteristic; item; article; specific proposition

(b) plan; sketch; model; layout; structure

(c) division of a company; section; area

(d) enhancement; refinement; improvement

Q3 n postmaster

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

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

(c) portable personal computer; laptop computer

(d) more current version of something

Q4 v impress

(a) to affect strongly; to emphasize; to stamp

(b) to continue; to carry on; to advance; to progress; to move forward

(c) to hypnotize; to enthrall

(d) to carry out; to conduct; to perform

Q5 n insult

(a) celebration; feast; dinner; drinking

(b) expansion; growth; range; story or advertisement that covers two pages

(c) affront; offense; rude remark or action

(d) rubble; ruins; wreckage; fragments

Q6 n tow

(a) act of dragging or pulling with a rope or chain

(b) article cut from a newspaper

(c) place where grain is stored; granary; storehouse; collection; store

(d) importance that is attached to something; accent or stress that is placed on a word or words

Q7 n production

(a) durability; determination; resolve; power; intensity; force

(b) stance

(c) manufacture; assembly; output; yield

(d) act of sending out; act of starting or initiating; commencement; inauguration

Q8 n sort

(a) type; kind; character; manner; quality

(b) means of transport (car, bus, etc.); instrument; means; medium

(c) organization and interpretation of numerical data

(d) injury; harm

Q9 v comprise

(a) to affect; to impact; to impel; to control

(b) to give; to submit; to transform; to represent; to depict

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

(d) to include; to contain; to consist

Q10 adv throughout

(a) in every; during

(b) ahead; to the front

(c) previously; before a certain time

(d) mildly; deliberatively; in a temperate manner; not excessively; reasonably

Q1 n diversity

(a) pledge; vow; declaration of intention; source of hope; basis for expectations

(b) person or thing which promotes; expeditor

(c) seminar; brief intensive educational program; discussion group

(d) variety; difference; unlikeness

Q2 n baggage

(a) detailed account of an occurrence or situation

(b) luggage; cargo; things to take on a trip; equipment

(c) denial; rejection

(d) total number of people living in an area

Q3 n significance

(a) person who is resistant to change; person who favors traditional political parties

(b) lack of knowledge; illiteracy; lack of education; state of being uninformed

(c) method; way; medium; resources; funds

(d) meaning; sense; quality of having meaning

Q4 n offense

(a) seal; trademark

(b) information that is confidential or classified; mystery; unexplained phenomenon

(c) lodger; occupant; resident; renter; landlord

(d) attack; misdeed; insult; transgression

Q5 n shop

(a) small retail store; studio; business; office; outlet

(b) strength; period; permanence

(c) acknowledgment; strong persuasion or belief; condemnation

(d) meeting; seminar; convention

Q6 n speech

(a) dampness; moistness; mugginess

(b) transmission; dispatch; radio program

(c) speaking ability; something that is communicated orally

(d) license; authorization

Q7 v groom

(a) to rub off; to remove totally; to delete

(b) to find the answer to; to explain

(c) to tend carefully; to take care of; to make clean and tidy; to prepare for

(d) to understand; to comprehend; to accomplish; to convert into cash; to liquidate

Q8 n mark

(a) person who owns and operates a food store

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

(c) sign; indication; symbol; grade; trace

(d) ecclesiastical judge; priest

Q9 n mentor

(a) foundation; grounding

(b) price; cargo; responsibility

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

(d) explanation; illustration; instruction

Q10 n warranty

(a) study of the statistical characteristics of a population

(b) a situation in which the imports of a country from the USA are larger than their exports to the USA

(c) guarantee; authority; justification

(d) probability; chance; feasibility; possibility

Q1 v funnel

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

(b) to startle; to astonish; to ambush

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

(d) to channel; to centralize

Q2 v strap

(a) to capture; to assume control

(b) to tie with a narrow piece of leather; to lash

(c) to reveal; to uncover; to disclose

(d) to decide; to define; to conclude; to cause; to affect

Q3 v injure

(a) to move with sudden speed; to bolt; to shatter; to hurl; to cast

(b) to send; to direct; to ascribe to; to relate to; to apply to; to call attention to

(c) to sightsee; to voyage; to travel

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

Q4 v publicize

(a) to obtain; to protect; to defend; to strengthen

(b) to act; to function; to manage; to use; to activate; to perform surgery

(c) to confirm to be true; to authorize

(d) to advertise; to bring to the attention of a large audience

Q5 v compose

(a) to create; to write; to relax; to calm oneself; to settle

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

(c) to appreciate; to esteem; to respect; to appraise; to assess worth

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

Q6 v instrument

(a) to direct along a particular path; to chart a course

(b) to equip with devices for measuring, recording, or controlling

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

(d) to put off to a later time; to delay; to defer; to put off until later; to stay

Q7 v earn

(a) to name; to call; to designate

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

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

(d) to employ a group of workers; to provide with employees; to man

Q8 v pleasure

(a) to enlarge; to add to; to multiply; to raise; to intensify

(b) to impose; to cause something unpleasant

(c) to cause someone enjoyment

(d) to approve; to verify; to ascertain

Q9 v fuel

(a) to arrange according to dimension

(b) to blend; to be blended; to combine or unite into a single body; to be assimilated

(c) to try or to intend to achieve something; to direct; to plan; to aspire

(d) to provide with a combustible substance that provides energy

Q10 v lead

(a) to lounge; to do nothing; to laze around

(b) to make a stupid mistake; to move back and forth in a clumsy manner

(c) to conduct; to guide; to direct; to influence

(d) to express regret; to say sorry

Q1 adj proper

(a) correct; suitable; just; complete

(c) imaginary; hypothetical; computer simulated

(b) chief; leading; main; principal (d) comprising the best result ever attained

(a) small globule of liquid; drip; very small amount; pendant

(b) condition; influencing factor; situation

(c) pullover; employer who underpays his employees

(d) hurt; wound; harm; damage; insult

(a) large room used for lectures; talks, performances and other events

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

(c) silence; noiselessness; stillness; tranquility; muteness; speechlessness

(d) chance meeting

(a) substance burned to create energy (petrol, gasoline, gas, wood, coal, etc.)

(b) coins and paper notes which have value; currency; medium of trade; wealth

(c) volume; mass; main part; most

(d) tool for cutting consisting of a toothed blade; saying; maxim; proverb

(a) easement; alleviation; liberation; aid; assistance

(b) singularity; individuality; incomparability

(c) necessity; obligation; new wine; grape juice that has not yet fermented

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

Q6 n capacity

(a) seal; trademark

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

(c) volume which can be contained or received; function; role; feature; potential

(d) supply; stock; measure; means; condition; stipulation

(a) to be indebted to; to be under obligation to pay or repay

(b) to be involved; to join in

(c) to interchange; to take turns; to rotate; to substitute

(d) to carry out; to conduct; to perform

(a) bid; offer; overseer; supervisor

(b) central stalk of a plant; petiole

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

(d) tag; sign; identification tag

Q9 n discipline

(a) head; leader; chairman; chief

(b) public announcement or printed notice designed to attract attention

(c) training

(d) protective coating

Q10 n investor

(a) bid; offer; overseer; supervisor

(c) person who puts money into a project

(b) result of manufacturing; goods; merchandise (d) help; assistance; accessory

Q1 n adjustment

(a) adaption; settlement of an insurance claim

(b) process of making neat and attractive

(c) inflow; inward flow; place where a stream flows into another body of water

(d) item; piece of information; part of a whole

Q2 n gathering

(a) long thin mark; row; border; domain; tactic

(b) assembly; meeting; convention; cluster; collection

(c) possessions; belongings; estate; assets; ownership

(d) compound; various objects that for m a unit

Q3 n definition

(a) choosing; time when people vote for a political candidate

(b) this being the case; since (used in formal documents)

(c) explanation; meaning; interpretation (as of a word or term)

(d) joining; union; an ordered sequence

Q4 n code

(a) cipher; collection of instructions of the law

(b) reply; answer; reaction

(c) holiday

(d) politeness; good manners; cordiality; civility

Q5 n greenhouse

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

(b) act of suddenly swooping down and grabbing; sudden assault or attack

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

(d) structure built mainly of glass in which plants are cultivated out of season

Q6 n exertion

(a) adaption; settlement of an insurance claim

(b) putting to use; putting into action; effort; struggle; strain

(c) meeting; seminar; convention

(d) security; warranty; pledge; assurance

Q7 n mall

(a) depot; wholesale store; large retail store

(b) shopping center; pedestrian walkway; promenade

(c) plentifulness; abundance; numerousness; plurality

(d) manner of acting; conduct

Q8 v sum

(a) to respect deeply; to honor greatly

(b) to add

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

(d) to have to; to be obligated; to be likely or probable

Q9 n advance

(a) progress; modernization; promotion

(b) political group; social gathering; side of an agreement; group; gang

(c) nourishment; substance which provides the body with nutrients; sustenance

(d) rebound; recoiling; sudden movement to the rear

Q10 n loop

(a) fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines

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

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

(d) abuse; molestation

Q1 v precondition

(a) to seize; to capture; to possess; to contract

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

(c) to train in advance

(d) to profit; to roll a ball into a hole (Billiards)

Q2 v box

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

(b) to be concerned; to harass; to advance through great effort

(c) to fight with fists; to put crates

(d) to represent by chart; to draw a curve representing a given function

Q3 v interject

(a) to judge an object's value; to appraise; to assess; to guess

(b) to try; to live through; to feel; to endure

(c) to place between other things; to throw into the center of

(d) to send; to direct; to ascribe to; to relate to; to apply to; to call attention to

Q4 v blame

(a) to encase; to review; to protect; to include; to insure

(b) to plan; to design; to name; to call

(c) to back; to support; to finance; to subsidize; to promote

(d) to accuse; to denounce

Q5 v exist

(a) to rent out property for a specific period of time; to let

(b) to live; to be

(c) to join; to cause to become one

(d) to tie down

Q6 v prohibit

(a) to warn; to scold; to reprove

(b) to negotiate; to arrive at an agreement

(c) to sell something through a bidding system

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

Q7 v postpone

(a) to put off to a later time; to delay; to defer; to put off until later; to stay

(b) to make a detailed list of property; to summarize; to sum up the worth of

(c) to examine accounts and other financial records

(d) to slander; to defame

Q8 v dislodge

(a) to extricate; to remove; to evict; to oust; to expel

(b) to make ready; to get oneself ready; to put into the proper condition

(c) to change; to modify

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

Q9 v render

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

(b) to give; to submit; to transform; to represent; to depict

(c) to slope; to bend; to bow; to slant; to influence

(d) to alter; to change; to fluctuate

Q10 v concern

(a) to cover a part of; to have something in common

(b) to impregnate; to inseminate; to enrich the soil by the addition of organic or chemical substances

(c) to involve; to affect; to worry; to interest; to relate to

(d) to stress; to show the importance of

Q1 v raise

(a) to elevate; to lift; to excite; to arouse; to cause

(b) to appear as a large and indistinct form; to appear as larger than life; to impend

(c) to fall; to make fall; to bring down; to go down; to omit; to abandon

(d) to indicate; to itemize; to mark; to designate; to stipulate

Q2 v predict

(a) to put to practical use; to take advantage of

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

(c) to intend; to plan; to design; to aim

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

Q3 v commit

(a) to protect; to guard; to evade a question; to respond in a vague manner

(b) to agree; to harmonize; to coincide; to collaborate; to consent

(c) to contrive false evidence against; to set up; to construct; to build; to fashion; to formulate

(d) to perform; to do; to engage

Q4 n trustee

(a) meaning; sense; importance; consequence; act of pointing out

(b) person who has the right to grant a license

(c) person who translates from one language to another (orally); person how clarifies; commentator

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

Q5 n recipient

(a) caution; wisdom; careful judgment

(b) person who accepts; person who takes or gets

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

(d) house; dwelling; structure; premises

Q6 n plaid

(a) device used to destroy documents by cutting them into small strips or pieces

(b) colorful fabric with a pattern of square s and crossbars

(c) organization; society; union; coalition; foundation

(d) 12 dozen; 144

Q7 n triangle

(a) report of recent events; information about previously unknown facts

(b) shape having three sides and three corners; group of three

(c) substance burned to create energy (petrol, gasoline, gas, wood, coal, etc.)

(d) collapse; crash; incident

Q8 v tailor

(a) to aid; to help; to support; to guide; to direct

(b) to impregnate; to inseminate; to enrich the soil by the addition of organic or chemical substances

(c) to move to a different apartment; to move to a different place

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

Q9 v insult

(a) to go on; to keep doing something; to last; to perpetuate

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

(c) to speak or act in a rude or contemptuous manner; to offend; to affront

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

Q10 v section

(a) to respect; to esteem; to pay tribute; to praise; to accept

(b) to divide; to split

(c) to avoid; to run away; to shrink

(d) to accomplish; to put into action; to execute; to do

Q1 n alert

(a) printed form that entitles the holder to certain rights such as in a discount

(b) learning; instruction; imparting of knowledge; upbringing

(c) warning; alarm; attitude of readiness

(d) agreement; settling of a disagreement by making mutual concessions

(a) art and science of disease treatment and health maintenance; remedy; drug

(b) rubble; ruins; wreckage; fragments

(c) issue; affair; question; problem; substance of a particular composition and consistency

(d) admiration; respect

(a) way of life

(c) transmission; dispatch; radio program

(b) range; extent; sphere; expanse (d) adjacency; nearness; closeness; vicinity

Q4 n contact

(a) end; deduction; cognition; final decision

(c) link; connection; touch; interface

(b) contrast; something contrary (d) reminder; internal document

(a) list of terms and definitions (usually at the end of a book); dictionary of technical or specific terms

(b) instinctual urge; sudden desire; whim; wave of energy sent via a nerve

(c) person who falls prey (to an attack, deception, etc.)

(d) mind; understanding; leader; person in authority; top

Q6 n identification

(a) verification of a person or thing; recognition

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

(c) traveling on a ship; sea voyage; sailing

(d) officer of a monastery; high-ranking member of a religious order

Q7 n leaflet

(a) point at which something ends; edge; border; restriction; restraint

(b) farm with large pasture land for raising livestock

(c) sheet of paper on which information has been printed; flyer

(d) class; division; section; segment

Q8 n intent

(a) chamber; bureau; incumbency; agency; authority

(b) concern; fear; misfortune; distress

(c) gratification of a need; remuneration; fulfillment

(d) plan; goal; aim; objective; meaning

Q9 n adversity

(a) building used for a particular purpose; business; audience; legislative body

(b) misfortune; hardship; distress; suffering

(c) point at which something ends; edge; border; restriction; restraint

(d) assembly; meeting; convention; cluster; collection

Q10 n drive

(a) matching outfit consisting of a jacket and trousers or a skirt; request; courtship

(b) something which legally or rightfully belongs to an individual; payment; fee

(c) trip in a vehicle; type of computer hardware; combined effort to accomplish a goal (i.e fund raiser)

(d) opposition; act of fighting against; act of withstanding the effects of