3420 TOEIC Vocabulary meanings by Word part 24

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Test 213
TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 213
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
Q2 n. luncheon
(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
Q3 n. improvement
(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
Q4 n. consignment
(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
Q7 n. fraud
(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)
Q8 n. accuracy
(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
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Test 214
TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 214
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
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Test 215
TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 215
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
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Test 216
TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 216
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
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Test 217
TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 217
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
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