PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 163 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 163 Q1 n. premium (a) supplementary charge; additional charge; amount paid for insurance; reward (b) general expenses; manufacturing and business expenses (c) flat receptacle used to hold other items; platter (d) plateau; area of level ground; prairie; savanna Q2 n. discussion (a) state of intellectual or spiritual awareness (b) debate; conversation; talk; dispute; argument (c) silence; quiet; photograph (d) length; distance; duration; period of time Q3 n. approval (a) set way of saying or doing something; principle; pattern (b) sofa; couch; lobby; slow walk; stroll (c) affinity; compassion; pity; concern; empathy (d) confirmation; endorsement; positive opinion Q4 v. interpret (a) to convey; to relocate; to hand over; to pass on (b) to show how (people or things) are alike or different; to consider to be similar (c) to explain; to clarify; to elucidate; to understand or explain in a particular way (d) to by-pass; to side-step; to evade Q5 n. intensity (a) shop; place where merchandise is sold; supply of goods or materials set aside for future use (b) percentage of profits paid to an artist for each copy of his work that is sold (c) routine; protocol; course of action; subroutine; sequence of instructions (Computers) (d) strength; energy; extreme degree; depth; clarity Q6 v. fail (a) to train; to teach; to instruct; to guide; to counsel (b) to set up a center of operations; to be set up in a center of operations (c) to be unsuccessful; to not do; to disappoint; to go bankrupt; to be used up (d) to create; to write; to relax; to calm oneself; to settle Q7 n. negotiator (a) opposite; contrary; back side; rear; setback; defeat (b) person who participates in a bargaining session (c) standard of perfection; pattern; model; person or thing that embodies a standard of perfection (d) statute; law; act of controlling; management; direction Q8 adj. choice (a) existent; in attendance; on hand; of the current times; pertaining to the current times (b) select; fine; excellent (c) situated; placed; identified; found; existing; standing (d) characteristic of a capital city; sophisticated Q9 n. mail (a) money management (including investment, banking etc.); science of money management (b) flow (of water, electricity, etc.); process; tendency; direction (c) postal service; letters and other items that are sent via the postal service (d) readiness; agreeableness Q10 adj. society (a) in favor of reform; supporting a progressive philosophy; tolerant; open-minded (b) impressive; inspiring; great; frightening (c) of or pertaining to the upper class (d) customary; routine; formal 181 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 164 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 164 Q1 adj. important (a) content; self-satisfied; comfortable; smug (b) right; proper; exact; accurate (c) smooth; straight; level; parallel; equal; consistent (d) significant; influential; essential; crucial; critical Q2 adj. select (a) chosen; picked out; choice; superior; prime; picky (b) shared; ordinary; mediocre; average; public (c) preferred; beloved; liked (d) energetic; full of life; playful; lively Q3 adj. internal (a) vulnerable; prone; impressionable (b) preoccupied; lost in thought (c) inner; inside; located within; of a country's domestic affairs (d) behind; after; rear; hind Q4 adj. possible (a) could be; might be; may be (b) empty; unfilled; unoccupied; lacking expression (c) shared; ordinary; mediocre; average; public (d) typical; characteristic; acting on behalf of another person or organization Q5 adj. particular (a) special; unusual; detailed; precise; pedantic; strict (b) not healthful; not clean (c) filled with petrol, gas or another substance that produces energy (d) involving rivalry; tending to contest Q6 adj. delicious (a) tasty; having a pleasant taste or smell (b) open to dispute; obscure; vague (c) intimate; for or pertaining to a small group of people; personal; of an individual (d) safe; protected; strong; stable; confident Q7 adj. genuine (a) opposed (b) large; important; huge; immense; wonderful; exciting (c) next after the first; alternate; other; additional; subordinate; having a lower rank (d) original; real; true; natural; honest; sincere Q8 adj. inclusive (a) significant; important (b) ready for use; attainable; present; vail (c) having four equal sides enclosing four equal angles (d) containing; comprehensive; all-embracing; extensive; taking in Q9 adj. valid (a) belonging to oneself or itself (mine, yours, his, etc.); self; by oneself (b) biased; dishonest (c) legitimate; legally acceptable; not expired; logical; well-founded (d) composed of elastic material; made from caoutchouc Q10 adj. feasible (a) of great worth; costly; cherished; dear; important (b) able to be carried out; achievable; possible; likely (c) inner; inside; inland; of a country's domestic affairs; of an individual's inner life (d) pertinent; related; connected to the current subject 182 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 165 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 165 Q1 n. proposition (a) gross error; stupid mistake (b) offer; plan; theory; problem (c) effort; nuisance (d) small room; piece of office furniture; office; part of a government Q2 n. employment (a) quantity; sum (b) work; occupation; keeping busy (c) establisher; organization or channel; person who gives authorization to operate a channel (d) denial; rejection Q3 n. creditor (a) supplement (b) person employed to deliver official dispatches or go on special errands (c) direction; series of lessons or training units; layer; part of a meal (d) person or organization that lends something; lender; loaner; moneylender Q4 n. advice (a) counsel; guidance; specific information; hint (b) production; creating; group of people born around the same time (c) end; conclusion; plug (d) benefit; profit; utility; avail Q5 n. back door (a) colorful fabric with a pattern of square s and crossbars (b) the U.S. treasury (c) string; thin cord; Internet discussion (d) nutritionist; expert on nutrition Q6 n. background (a) agreement; pact; deal (b) bias; sentence passed before proper examination of the circumstances (c) bother; disturbance; nuisance; discomfort (d) setting; biography Q7 n. replay (a) notice; warning; caveat; carefulness; premonition (b) place where one can borrow books (c) part; portion; quota; allocation; issue of stock (d) rematch; repetition Q8 n. discount (a) price reduction; rebate (c) inner quality; intrinsic characteristic (b) chase; quest; search; occupation; pastime (d) symbol; sign; mark; remembrance Q9 n. veil (a) effect; impact; person or thing which has power to affect others (b) obligation; something owed (i.e. money) (c) sameness; uniformity (d) netting attached to a woman's hat Q10 n. use (a) degree; rank; height; plane; flat horizontal plain (b) abrasion; cut; score of zero; cash; money (Slang) (c) route; travel plans; travel journal (d) function; utilization; benefit; advantage; consumption 183 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 166 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 166 Q1 v. achieve (a) to claim; to require; to request strongly (b) to decline; to deny; to reject (c) to obtain; to attain; to perform; to accomplish (d) to summarize; to review with a short summary Q2 v. venture (a) to show; to display; to demonstrate; to present (b) to temporarily cease working as a protest; to impress (c) to take a risk in order to achieve a goal (d) to allay; to soothe; to relieve; to soften; to lessen Q3 v. exit (a) to allot; to apportion; to give somebody a task or responsibility; to delegate; to appoint (b) to oversee; to administer; to direct; to manage; to watch over (c) to leave; to go out (d) to calculate; to think; to assume; to portray; to depict; to express verbally Q4 v. brief (a) to disregard an outstanding debt (as of a customer) (b) to enter information into a chart; to postpone; to set aside for future consideration (c) to make a summary; to give a report; to inform; to instruct somebody (d) to provide secret information about another country; to examine Q5 v. address (a) to assume; to anticipate; to hope (b) to win; to succeed; to overcome; to surpass; to prove superior (c) to direct to; to speak to; to direct to a specific destination; to refer to (d) to aim at something Q6 v. comply (a) to gain entrance to; to get at (b) to make an itemized list; to index; to classify (c) to submit; to consent; to obey; to agree with (d) to fail to perform a duty; to fail to pay on time; to fail to appear in court Q7 n. explanation (a) interpretation; something that clarifies; description; definition (b) suggestion; tender; plan; offer of marriage (c) small purse used to carry money and personal documents; billfold; handbag (d) store which sells food and other household goods Q8 v. combine (a) to confirm to be true; to authorize (b) to unite; to join; to come together; to become one (c) to make up for a deficiency; to add on to (d) to support; to inspire; to give hope Q9 v. paint (a) to plan; to design; to imagine; to conceive; to envision (b) to halt; to cease; to quit; to close; to block; to impede (c) to apply color to a surface; to put makeup on; to describe something in words (d) to innovate and develop production Q10 v. drive (a) to record the proceedings of a meeting; to make a memorandum (b) to reflect; to think; to consider; to meditate (c) to travel in a car; to transport in a vehicle; to compel (d) to fasten; to connect 184 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 167 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 167 Q1 adj. superb (a) complete; full; entire; healthy (b) more distant; additional (c) excellent; wonderful; splendid; magnificent (d) reasonable; probable; possible; appropriate; promising Q2 v. disagree (a) to have different opinions; to differ (b) to cancel; to revoke (c) to open; to free from restraints; to release (d) to refine; to improve; to complete; to make faultless Q3 v. insure (a) to examine; to investigate; to check closely; to inspect (b) to provide a guarantee against possible damage or loss; to make certain (c) to put into a stable; to delay; to check the progress of (d) to render insusceptible to a disease by inoculating Q4 v. conceive (a) to expel a tenant by legal process; to turn out (b) to perform; to do; to engage (c) to understand; to comprehend; to grasp (d) to plan; to invent; to design Q5 v. pay (a) to give money for goods or to cancel debts; to settle; to be worthwhile; to be profitable (b) to hunt for; to look for; to investigate; to examine (c) to oppose; to fight against; to challenge; to withstand (d) to obtain; to acquire; to get; to buy; to purchase Q6 n. instruction (a) teaching; direction; guidance; training; education; information (b) expansion; increase in size; magnification (c) a person who was unable to repay their debts (d) alleyway; narrow road between mountains; successful grade on a test Q7 v. prepare (a) to clarify; to confirm; to reinforce; to verify (b) to make into a city (c) to make ready; to get oneself ready; to put into the proper condition (d) to escape; to keep away from; to prevent; to keep from happening; to evade Q8 v. fence (a) to ascend; to up; to slope upward; to move upward gradually (b) to protect; to guard; to evade a question; to respond in a vague manner (c) to push; to iron; to remove creases or wrinkles; to confiscate for public or government use (d) to identify; to acknowledge; to know; to admit Q9 n. prejudice (a) respected position; honor; nobility (b) bias; sentence passed before proper examination of the circumstances (c) repayment; something done to make up for (a loss, deficiency or fault) (d) freedom; liberation; newly distributed film (or record, book, etc.); statement provided to the media Q10 v. perceive (a) to open; to free from restraints; to release (b) to feel; to sense; to distinguish; to discern; to see (c) to place in particular situations (d) to look at; to concern; to relate to; to esteem; to appreciate; to consider 185 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 168 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 168 Q1 n. levy (a) structure in which horses and other animals are housed (b) a charge imposed and collected (c) instructor; director; escort; leader; manual; handbook (d) person who gives a test Q2 n. honesty (a) notoriety; renown; good reputation (b) condition; influencing factor; situation (c) specific quantity regarded as a standard; combination which acts a whole; piece (d) truthfulness; sincerity; integrity; frankness Q3 n. grocer (a) automated device used for selling items (b) postal service; letters and other items that are sent via the postal service (c) period of time that something continues (d) person who owns and operates a food store Q4 n. behind (a) rear; end; seat (b) range; extent; sphere; expanse (c) thing; object; article; news story; piece of information (d) purchase; something that has been purchased or obtained Q5 n. wealth (a) something that is demanded; necessity; something that is needed (b) abuse; molestation (c) amount collected at one time; income; proceeds; profits (Informal) (d) richness; prosperity; capital; fortune; abundance Q6 n. journal (a) sudden need demanding immediate action (b) base; foot; seat of a chair (c) reduction; curtailing; decrease (d) newspaper; magazine; diary; blog; bookkeeping ledger Q7 n. imagination (a) signature on a money order such as a check (b) yield; product; manufacture; information sent out from a computer (c) ability of the mind to create mental pictures which do not exist in reality (d) progression; succession; order; arrangement Q8 n. slip (a) track; footprints; path; way (b) company; enterprise; trade; commerce; issue (c) opposite of profit; deprivation; defeat; destruction (d) slide; stumble; mistake; blunder; error Q9 n. liability (a) sale of products to final consumers; sale of goods to end users (b) division of a company; section; area (c) monetary or material worth; importance; merit (d) financial obligation; debt; responsibility; obligation Q10 n. button (a) voting, electing; counting of votes; number of votes; referendum (b) garbage; refuse; scrap (c) switch; icon to click on (d) maltreatment; corrupt practice; foul language 186 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 169 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 169 Q1 v. tax (a) to confirm; to license; to authorize (b) to hesitate; to stumble; to sway; to totter; to be unstable (c) to impose a tariff; to impose a levy; to burden; to demand too much (d) to remove; to take out; to squeeze; to press; to elicit Q2 v. elaborate (a) to provide additional details; to plan carefully and with great detail; to produce; to develop (b) to make a summary; to give a report; to inform; to instruct somebody (c) to work as an employee (i.e. in the legal or bank business) (d) to make a call; to ring Q3 v. auction (a) to sell something through a bidding system (b) to stance (c) to create; to write; to relax; to calm oneself; to settle (d) to agree; to give; to bestow; to answer to; to donate Q4 v. associate (a) to write one's name by hand; to sign one's name (b) to share company; to connect; to relate to; to combine (c) to try and obtain something through persuasion or earnest requests (d) to dare; to invite to engage in a contest; to stimulate; to test one's ability Q5 v. equip (a) to contract; to empower; to authorize; to confer (b) to provide with the required supplies, tools and items (c) to produce and distribute printed material; to advertise (d) to equip; to outfit with supplies Q6 v. switch (a) to make a stupid mistake; to move back and forth in a clumsy manner (b) to advertise; to bring to the attention of a large audience (c) to change; to shift; to exchange; to trade; to turn on or off (d) to prejudice; to influence opinions Q7 v. draft (a) to make an outline; to draw up in written form; to conscript; to draw out and separate (b) to be plentiful; to be filled with; to overflow with (c) to appraise; to judge the worth or quality; to assess; to gauge (d) to mark as different; to see as different; to discern; to recognize Q8 v. accord (a) to crash; to meet head on; to come together with solid or direct impact (b) to depend on; to trust in (c) to give; to match; to fit; to complement (d) to see; to look; to pay attention; to supervise Q9 v. experience (a) to push; to iron; to remove creases or wrinkles; to confiscate for public or government use (b) to try; to live through; to feel; to endure (c) to increase; to enlarge; to enhance; to multiply (d) to organize; to settle; to structure; to order; to systematize Q10 v. flaw (a) to crack; to become defective; to become cracked (b) to substantiate with evidence; to demonstrate; to show clearly (c) to recommence; to begin again; to retake; to take back; to continue (d) to consent; to concur; to suit; to have the same opinion; to fit 187 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 170 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 170 Q1 adj. prepaid (a) remunerated ahead of time; settled beforehand via payment (b) average; middle; unkind; base; inferior (c) supplementary; auxiliary; secondary; lesser in importance (d) rational; reasonable; wise; judicious; cognizant; aware Q2 n. letter (a) character which is part of an alphabet; written communication sent to a person or organization (b) temporary work stoppage; good luck; discovery of natural resources (c) attack; act of aggression; position of pursuit or aggression (d) show; presentation; execution; act; deed Q3 n. idea (a) faithfulness; devotion; constancy (b) specimen; small part of something; representative part of a larger group (c) caption beneath an illustration (d) concept; thought; opinion; intention; plan Q4 n. overlap (a) something that is superimposed (b) act of casting back a mirror image; act of sending back energy from a surface; idea; concept (c) employees working in an organization; personnel; crew; team (d) process of making neat and attractive Q5 n. understatement (a) payment given for regularly scheduled performances or publications (b) representing something less strongly than what the facts would justify (c) comprehensive inquiry; extensive investigation of a subject (d) great number of persons or things; many; a lot; composed of a countless number of items Q6 v. reason (a) to stretch; to enlarge; to lengthen; to reach out (b) to display; to undertake; to attempt; to begin a journey; to arrange (c) to think; to consider logically; to argue; to claim (d) to be frightened; to be concerned; to be afraid of; to have respect for Q7 v. distract (a) to interpret; to see; to perceive (b) to create; to conceive; to produce; to conceptualize (c) to copy; to pretend; to fake (d) to disturb; to confuse; to worry; to divert; to amuse Q8 adj. standard (a) serving as a model; normal; regular; typical; widely accepted (b) frail; feeble; faint; dilute; watery (c) careful; cautious (d) nicely; thoughtfully; graciously; considerately; sympathetically Q9 v. instance (a) to record for evidence; to write down; to substantiate (b) to make up for a deficiency; to add on to (c) to refer to a case or occurrence to explain or prove a point; to cite; to mention (d) to turn into; to develop into; to grow into Q10 adj. common (a) resisting change; desiring to preserve traditions; cautious (b) pertaining to a city; pertaining to citizenship (c) perfect; impeccable (d) shared; ordinary; mediocre; average; public 188 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 171 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 171 Q1 n. pay (a) attitude; stance; opinion (b) salary; wages (c) act or instance of rendering insusceptible to disease by inoculating (d) increase in salary; wage increase Q2 n. contemporary (a) danger; peril; hazard; risk; endangerment (b) person living at about the same time as another person (c) routine; course of action; advance; summons to court (d) opening stroke or hit of the ball (Sports) Q3 n. forecast (a) prediction of a future event or condition (i.e. development of the economy) (b) roundish stain; speck; place; awkward or difficult situation; predicament (c) rope; cord; link; connection; equal score in a game (d) supplement Q4 n. council (a) assembly; board; group of people (gathered to advise, plan, etc.) (b) series (of stories, articles, reports etc.); recurring period of time (c) part of a book; phase; stage; local branch of an organization (d) chance; probability of advancement or success; hope; promise Q5 n. evaluation (a) cement; something tangible (idea, object, etc.) (b) appraisal; estimation; assessment (c) work beyond regular working hours; pay for such work (d) representing; in support of Q6 n. globe (a) cereal; seed; granule; particle; texture; weave (b) management committee; food (c) state of not being a derivative of anything else (d) ball; sphere; planet Earth; world Q7 n. climb (a) inside a building; inland section of a country (b) temporary stay somewhere; instance of spending time with a person or group of people; inspection (c) merchandise; goods; item that is bought and sold; something useful (d) ascent Q8 n. cushion (a) colorful fabric with a pattern of square s and crossbars (b) frequent customer; repeat customer (c) fracture; pause; rest; opportunity; alteration (d) pillow; soft padded object Q9 n. denominator (a) rematch; repetition (b) shared characteristic; common feature (c) creator; designer (d) right to live in a country; condition of being a member of a country Q10 n. cash (a) money in the form of coins and bank notes (b) reform; repair; act of repairing; state of healing or improvement (c) person who creates something; chemical substance used in photography (d) one who relies on another especially for financial support 189 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 172 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 172 Q1 v. merchandise (a) to pay attention to; to supervise; to regret; to oppose; to remember; to notice (b) to be useful; to help; to facilitate (c) to trade; to plan for and promote for sales of; to market goods (d) to suggest; to tender; to bid; to propose a price; to present Q2 v. circumvent (a) to propose; to mention; to imply; to hint; to evoke (b) to understand; to comprehend; to grasp (c) to by-pass; to side-step; to evade (d) to treat someone new in a humiliating manner; to harass; to humiliate Q3 v. get (a) to impose a tax upon; to purify; to make thin or thinner; to reduce; to clarify (b) to record; to order in advance; to inscribe; to indicate (c) to cover with a curtain; to filter; to sift; to hide; to conceal; to separate (d) to receive; to obtain; to purchase; to bring; to persuade Q4 v. run (a) to operate; to activate; to manage; to direct; to carry out; to fulfill (b) to cover; to coat (c) to try; to live through; to feel; to endure (d) to make clear; to concentrate Q5 v. enlist (a) to remove; to get rid of (b) to draft into military service; to voluntarily join a cause (c) to punish (d) to surround Q6 v. award (a) to realize; to make a reality; to accomplish; to complete; to execute (b) to give; to grant; to judge; to rule (c) to reduce; to lessen; to decline (d) to arrange in a line; to grade; to classify Q7 v. assist (a) to make whole; to finish; to perfect (b) to be short of; to be without; to be missing; to need; to want (c) to aid; to help; to support; to guide; to direct (d) to represent as the embodiment of perfection Q8 v. vacillate (a) to devote to; to set apart for; to inscribe (a book, poem, song, story, etc.) to someone (b) to clarify; to explain; to approve (c) to quit an office or position; to relinquish; to give up; to abdicate (d) to fluctuate; to hesitate; to waver Q9 v. decrease (a) to send; to convey; to transmit; to promote; to advance (b) to eternalize; to make everlasting; to preserve from extinction (c) to reduce; to lessen; to decline (d) to accumulate; to gather; to collect; to assemble Q10 v. age (a) to prepare food by heating; to falsify account records (b) to grow older; to mature (c) to impose a tax upon; to purify; to make thin or thinner; to reduce; to clarify (d) to limit the amount of food eaten; to eat only certain kinds of food 190 Answers Index . PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 163 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 163 Q1 n. premium (a) supplementary charge; additional. formal 181 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 164 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 164 Q1 adj. important (a) content; self-satisfied;