PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 263 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 263 Q1 v. stop (a) to halt; to cease; to quit; to close; to block; to impede (b) to eat or drink; to use up; to destroy (c) to make an application; to enter; to let something or someone enter (d) to jump; to leap Q2 adv. especially (a) to the smallest extent possible (c) particularly (b) moderately; quite; rather; to some extent (d) at a further point Q3 n. trial (a) test; attempt; experiment; annoyance (b) gradual payment of debt; the reduction of the value of an asset (c) celebration; feast; dinner; drinking (d) work beyond regular working hours; pay for such work Q4 n. impact (a) shipping of goods to other countries (b) copy; photocopy; exact replica; reproduction (c) concern; affair; percentage on a loan which is paid over time (d) influence; effect; colliding of two bodies; touch Q5 n. mailing (a) yard; formal reception; place where legal trials take place (b) large batch of letters sent at one time by a single sender; rented property (c) act or instance of rendering insusceptible to disease by inoculating (d) association; organization; community; rich upper class; fellowship; companionship Q6 adj. favorite (a) confined usually by illness (b) unusual; exceptional; unique; particular; highly valued (c) empty; unfilled; unoccupied; lacking expression (d) preferred; beloved; liked Q7 n. joint venture (a) behavior; conduct; bearing; appearance (b) greater number or part; number greater than half of the total (c) pouch used to carry objects; sac; underground deposit of oil (d) collective enterprise; group endeavor; collaboration Q8 v. expedite (a) to speed up; to accelerate; to facilitate; to dispatch (b) to take money from the bank; to retire; to remove (c) to be composed of; to be made up of (d) to defeat; to master; to crush; to stagger; to stun; to daze Q9 n. whereas (a) meeting; assembly; term; semester (b) main component; something which is a part of a complex whole (c) this being the case; since (used in formal documents) (d) one who activates; worker of a telephone switchboard; operation symbol Q10 adj. elaborate (a) giving off a foul odor; fertile; productive; fruitful; growing vigorously (b) detailed; complicated; carefully planned; worked out in great detail (c) reputed; famous (d) pertaining to business; pertaining to buying and selling 281 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 264 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 264 Q1 n. currency (a) distribution; liberation; transference (b) production; creating; group of people born around the same time (c) national money of a country; circulation; custom; prevalence (d) responsibility; duty; burden; impediment; blame Q2 n. destruction (a) familiarity; understanding; wisdom; education; awareness (b) ruin; desolation; annihilation (c) foundation; principal element; fundamental part (d) money paid for the use of property; rip; tear; laceration Q3 n. fortune (a) movement; journeying (c) luck; wealth; chance; success; riches (b) style of cooking; national food (d) town; large urban area Q4 n. entertainer (a) learning; field of learning; thorough investigation; report; analysis (b) lift; mechanical apparatus for moving people or items from floor to floor within a building (c) something that is essential or imperative; essentials of life (food, clothing, and shelter) (d) host; performer; comedian Q5 n. token (a) symbol; sign; mark; remembrance (b) freedom from danger; quality of not causing injury or loss; any security device (c) process of breaking down a subject and studying it; examination (d) heaviness; unit of mass; pressure; importance; influence Q6 n. courtesy (a) withdrawal from one's job or occupation (b) large batch of letters sent at one time by a single sender; rented property (c) politeness; good manners; cordiality; civility (d) lawyer; barrister; advocate; solicitor Q7 n. chore (a) string; thin cord; Internet discussion (b) routine job; unpleasant task (c) person who travels back and forth between home and work (d) prejudice; tendency; leaning Q8 n. infant (a) extension of an archived file compressed with a special program; type of drive using removable disks (b) baby; very young child; toddler; tot; minor (c) setting; biography (d) advantage; profit; help; benefit Q9 n. judge (a) software program; written request; formal letter; implementation (b) farm with large pasture land for raising livestock (c) aspiration; hope; goal; dream (d) person who presides over court trials; arbiter; expert; critic Q10 n. hurry (a) type; sort; class; group of things which are classed together because of their similarities (b) area of land set aside to protect natural resources and wildlife (c) rush; haste; urgency (d) influence; effect; colliding of two bodies; touch 282 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 265 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 265 Q1 v. command (a) to persuade; to influence; to prove (b) to rule; to control; to be in charge; to be in authority (c) to spice; to flavor; to accustom; to acclimatize; to become experienced (d) to reduce the size of; to make smaller; to cut the number of employees Q2 v. shape (a) to perform for the first time; to make one's premiere performance (b) to come near to; to tackle (a problem or situation) (c) to design; to mold; to form; to direct; to be formed (d) to lease; to rent; to employ Q3 v. base (a) to establish; to found; to set up; to place on (b) to take away part of a whole; to remove; to deduct (c) to manage; to process; to deal in; to do business with; to treat (d) to hold a party; to feast; to dine; to drink Q4 v. indulge (a) to make better; to increase in quality; to enhance; to develop (b) to continue; to suffice; to endure; to persist (c) to give in to desire; to yield to; to satisfy; to spoil; to humor (d) to provide a detailed statement about an occurrence or situation; inform Q5 v. registering (a) to esteem; to cherish; to assess; to estimate (b) to exchange a check (or another money order) for coins and bank notes; to redeem (c) to record; to enroll; to have an effect; to have influence (d) to be frightened; to be concerned; to be afraid of; to have respect for Q6 v. extend (a) to delay; to obstruct; to hinder; to prevent; to thwart (b) to rely on; to extend business credit (c) to stretch; to enlarge; to lengthen; to reach out (d) to comply; to conform; to follow; to agree Q7 n. demographics (a) inflow; inward flow; place where a stream flows into another body of water (b) study of the statistical characteristics of a population (c) materials that are used to cushion and cover furniture (i.e. fabric, lining, padding, etc.) (d) person or organization that prepares printed matter for publication Q8 v. estimate (a) to hesitate; to stumble; to sway; to totter; to be unstable (b) to offer to do or give something for free; to propose (c) to comfort; to console; to encourage; to relieve; to appease (d) to judge an object's value; to appraise; to assess; to guess Q9 v. bargain (a) to determine; to stabilize; to arrange; to repair; to prepare (b) to clarify; to confirm; to reinforce; to verify (c) to cause someone enjoyment (d) to negotiate; to arrive at an agreement Q10 v. hazard (a) to endanger; to imperil; to dare; to venture (b) to control; to govern; to manage; to adjust to a specific level or condition (c) to quit an office or position; to relinquish; to give up; to abdicate (d) to set a new time and date 283 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 266 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 266 Q1 n. board (a) person who works with pipe and water systems (b) management committee; food (c) office; bureau; institution; franchise; method (d) preparedness; willingness; promptness; quickness Q2 adj. favorable (a) positive; approving; likable; helpful; encouraging; desirable (b) traveling in an inward direction (c) exact; not more and not less; meticulous; strict (d) injurious; causing damage Q3 v. authorize (a) to make ready; to get oneself ready; to put into the proper condition (b) to reduce the price of; to mark down; to ignore (c) to permit; to approve; to empower (d) to stick to; to cling to; to be devoted to (an idea, group, organization etc.) Q4 n. occupation (a) act of forcefully taking possession of an area; seizure; conquest; possession or settlement of land (b) drawing together; fold; pucker (c) progress; reaching a new level; removal of a barrier; penetration (d) standard of perfection; pattern; model; person or thing that embodies a standard of perfection Q5 v. cook (a) to prepare food by heating; to falsify account records (b) to provide financial assistance (c) to ship; to send abroad; to sell goods and products overseas (d) to invent; to create; to contrive; to think up Q6 adj. serious (a) solemn; acute; critical; requiring much consideration; humorless; grim (b) excellent; wonderful; splendid; magnificent (c) of general expenses; general (d) inexpensive; cheap; of or relating to a financial plan Q7 n. capability (a) dossier for storing papers; directory (b) one of the four quarters of the year (winter, spring, summer, autumn) (c) ability; skill; trait; characteristic; quality (d) luggage; cargo; things to take on a trip; equipment Q8 v. participate (a) to prepare food by heating; to falsify account records (b) to be involved; to join in (c) to have different opinions; to differ (d) to advance beyond proper limits; to infringe Q9 adj. capital (a) sure; definite; particular; specific (b) main; major; chief; principal (c) little; not many; some (d) lasting; enduring; perpetual; regular; fixed; invariable Q10 v. link (a) to attempt to discover or test something; to try; to venture; to research (b) to incorporate; to take in; to absorb (c) to join; to connect; to associate with; to relate to (d) to prompt; to spur; to provide inspiration; to stir to action; to induce 284 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 267 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 267 Q1 n. salary (a) sports shoe; one who moves about stealthily; one who acts furtively (b) periodic wage paid to someone for work; pay (c) equal weight or power acting in opposition (d) close examination; scrutinizing look Q2 n. specification (a) inability to succeed; lack of success; lack; bankruptcy; downfall (b) warning; alarm; attitude of readiness (c) pausing; stammering; faltering (d) item or detail included in a description of requirements or plans Q3 n. reputation (a) rapid multiplication; rapid reproduction; prosperity (b) act of shedding; act of taking away; elimination; ejection; dismissal (c) outlook; perspective; view; opinion; attitude (d) regard; esteem; renown Q4 n. affinity (a) method of dealing with a certain subject; draft of a treaty (b) attraction; closeness; liking; likeness (c) person or thing that is the same (d) pertaining to a value that is approximately in the middle of a series of values Q5 n. site (a) license to market a company's goods or services; business which has been granted a license (b) product of the division of one number by another; part of a whole; segment; fragment; quotient (c) schedule; agenda; written order of events (d) place; location; area Q6 n. cutback (a) nature; disposition; attitude; figure; person; statement of qualities (b) limitation; limit (c) beginning phase of a project; babyhood (d) reduction; curtailing; decrease Q7 n. admission (a) agreement; settlement; harmony (b) entrance; permission to enter; confession (c) act of receiving; approval; state of believing in something (d) educational meeting; training session Q8 n. fix (a) sample; model; form; mold; decorative design (b) something created separately for the purpose of being added to or placed inside (a book, newspaper, etc.) (c) person whose job it is to supervise and examine; police officer ranking below a superintendent (d) embarrassing situation; predicament; location; position (i.e. of a ship or individual) Q9 n. cast (a) throw; team of actors; squint (of the eye) (b) elected official acting as executive head of a town or city (c) practice; training; furrow; seeding machine; row of seeds in a furrow (d) tax; charge; levy; grievous price Q10 n. measure (a) timetable; agenda; itinerary; plan (b) action; step; criterion; amount; degree; extent (c) traveler; fare; person who rides or travels (d) respected position; honor; nobility 285 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 268 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 268 Q1 n. liberal (a) casing; skeleton; structure; body structure; mood (b) a significant decline in general economic activity extending over a period of time (c) person who favors political and social reform (d) computerized representation of an actual object Q2 n. prior (a) machine which supplies force and motion; motor; truck; part of a program which handles certain types of date (b) metal money; piece of stamped metal currency (as opposed to paper bills) (c) exchanging of goods and services; trade (d) officer of a monastery; high-ranking member of a religious order Q3 n. tailor (a) stimulus; motivation; revelation; insight; idea (b) expectation; hope; intuition (c) one who makes or alters garments (d) examination of financial accounts; internal investigation Q4 adj. negotiable (a) entire; complete; absolute (b) possible; capable of becoming; able to be (c) deprived of hope or confidence; dissuaded from (d) describing an asset or item which can easily be sold or transferred Q5 n. beverage (a) drink; refreshment (b) pointing out of similarities and differences; similarity; likeness (c) truthfulness; something that is a truth (d) buyer; client Q6 n. assignment (a) task; duty; responsibility; role; obligation (b) set way of saying or doing something; principle; pattern (c) teaching; direction; guidance; training; education; information (d) opposite; contrary; back side; rear; setback; defeat Q7 n. worry (a) backlash (b) small machine that makes computations (c) concern; fear; misfortune; distress (d) person who runs a company; director; administrator; supervisor Q8 v. practice (a) to duplicate; to imitate (b) to send; to direct; to ascribe to; to relate to; to apply to; to call attention to (c) to deliver a discourse before an audience; to reprimand tediously (d) to exercise; to train; to drill Q9 adj. viable (a) talented; skilled; having great natural ability (b) capable of living; having a reasonable chance of succeeding; practical (c) lower; under (d) well; not sick; fit; sound Q10 v. index (a) to give to for safekeeping; to empower someone with a responsibility or duty (b) to suggest; to tender; to bid; to propose a price; to present (c) to register; to adjust prices or salaries in accordance with changes in economic indicators (d) to support; to assist; to strengthen 286 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 269 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 269 Q1 n. tense (a) list; evidence; best result ever attained; list of events or actions (b) the sale of all or most of a company's inventory or assets to another company (c) inflection; verbal 'time' (d) return of money; repayment; reimbursement Q2 n. lounge (a) person who holds public position; authority (b) sofa; couch; lobby; slow walk; stroll (c) confirmation; endorsement; positive opinion (d) definition; significance; intention; explanation Q3 n. handling (a) check (b) care; treatment; procedure; system; touch (c) guidebook; library; catalog (d) refers to the cost of developing a product or system Q4 n. climate (a) weather conditions; surrounding conditions; atmosphere; setting (b) financial obligation; debt; responsibility; obligation (c) examination; careful inspection; debate (d) problem; challenge; hardship; trouble Q5 n. humidity (a) rotatable disk on a telephone (c) dampness; moistness; mugginess (b) management; supervisors; leadership (d) truthfulness; something that is a truth Q6 n. manager (a) person who runs a company; director; administrator; supervisor (b) person living at about the same time as another person (c) person or thing that is the same (d) plan; aim; goal; purpose Q7 n. removal (a) ruin; desolation; annihilation (b) exchange; trade (c) connection; association; closeness (d) act of shedding; act of taking away; elimination; ejection; dismissal Q8 n. central (a) model; pattern; something which serves as an illustration (b) performance; operation; attainment; mission; success (c) act of looking over carefully and critically; official examination; audit; review (d) telephone exchange; operator; main bureau or office Q9 n. line (a) reform; repair; act of repairing; state of healing or improvement (b) long thin mark; row; border; domain; tactic (c) politeness; good manners; cordiality; civility (d) grouping symbols () Q10 n. paradigm (a) tool for cutting consisting of a toothed blade; saying; maxim; proverb (b) lexicon; list of words and their definitions in alphabetical order (c) one of the four quarters of the year (winter, spring, summer, autumn) (d) model; ideal; mold; form; example; pattern 287 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 270 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 270 Q1 n. ticket (a) certificate; entry pass; tag (b) approach; entry; permission to enter a computer system or network and/or retrieve data (c) person whose job it is to supervise and examine; police officer ranking below a superintendent (d) either end of a passenger line; bus or train station Q2 n. book (a) yield; product; manufacture; information sent out from a computer (b) picture or design used as a background for the other images in a graphical user interface (c) candidate; nominee (d) printed work which is bound together; bundle Q3 n. plumber (a) person who works with pipe and water systems (b) act of looking over carefully and critically; official examination; audit; review (c) enhancement; refinement; improvement (d) state of perfection; state of highest quality Q4 adj. discouraged (a) deprived of hope or confidence; dissuaded from (b) collective; total; taking all units as a whole (c) excited; passionate; ardent; fervent (d) of nature Q5 v. cart (a) to perform a thorough investigation; to study a subject closely (b) to drag or to carry by force (c) to give up; to renounce; to deny; to disavow; to retract (d) to fill with water and sink; to fall; to fail; to stumble; to cause to sink Q6 v. retire (a) to withdraw from a position (usually due to old age); go into seclusion; to withdraw (b) to sail; to move at a moderate speed; to travel; to coast; to drive along slowly (c) to be similar to; to be akin to; to look like; to have a similar appearance to (d) to design; to plan (i.e. machinery, roads, etc.) Q7 n. amortization (a) gradual payment of debt; the reduction of the value of an asset (b) suggestion; tender; plan; offer of marriage (c) meeting or conference at which a specific topic is discussed (d) place; position; situation; site; spot Q8 n. import (a) feigning; impersonation; false show; claim; assertion (b) rapid multiplication; rapid reproduction; prosperity (c) brining in of goods from another country; opposite of export; meaning; significance (d) admiration; respect Q9 n. resource (a) state of not being at war; silence; quietness; tranquility (b) car; vehicle; ride (c) foods and other goods sold at a small supermarket or store (d) supply; stock; means of accomplishing a goal; expedient Q10 v. firm (a) to solidify; to become solid; to stabilize; to become stable (b) to exemplify; to clarify; to explain; to depict; to elucidate (c) to channel; to centralize (d) to refine; to improve; to complete; to make faultless 288 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 271 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 271 Q1 n. patience (a) creativity; resourcefulness; fabrication; falsehood (b) trip in a vehicle; type of computer hardware; combined effort to accomplish a goal (i.e. fund raiser) (c) characteristic; function; capability (of a product, machine, device, software etc.) (d) tolerance; forbearance Q2 n. access (a) copying of data for safety purposes; substitute; reserve; spare (b) state of having committed a crime or offense; culpability; feeling of having done something wrong (c) planning and execution; management of a business or other operation (d) approach; entry; permission to enter a computer system or network and/or retrieve data Q3 n. path (a) track; lane; route; search route (b) relief; consolation; coziness (c) transferal of ownership from government to private hands; privatization (d) number; image; character; price; human shape; symbol Q4 n. management (a) device; tool; convenience; talent; ability; building (b) wooden box; old car; old plane (c) list of subjects or other information arranged in alphabetical order; indicator; sign (d) person of group of people that runs and administers a business or other enterprise Q5 n. innovator (a) holiday (b) more current version of something (c) confidence; faith; credit; monopoly; several companies banded together in order to reduce competition (d) person who makes changes; person who introduces new methods or procedures; creative person Q6 n. conversation (a) plan; scheme; program; task; assignment; activity (b) talk; dialog; discussion; verbal exchange (c) special individual right not enjoyed by others; benefit; advantage (d) present; talent; offering Q7 n. pad (a) conversation; speech; lecture; meeting (b) piece of soft material which cushions; block of pages stacked together and connected on one side (c) garbage; trash; waste (d) section; piece; region; role; function; side in an agreement Q8 n. expertise (a) goal; aim; intention; objective (b) person who does not belong to any political party (c) gross revenues; total business done; rate of selling or producing (d) proficiency; skill; specialist knowledge and information Q9 n. proximity (a) opportunity; occurrence, event; incident; reason; cause (b) device made up of interconnected parts that work together to perform a given task or function (c) act of strengthening; reward or punishment designed to encourage or discourage a particular response (d) adjacency; nearness; closeness; vicinity Q10 n. audit (a) slope; incline; increase; ascent; raise in position or status; promotion; angry response (b) examination of financial accounts; internal investigation (c) conversation; speech; lecture; meeting (d) prop; brace; economic assistance; upkeep; encouragement; aid 289 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 272 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 272 Q1 v. reach (a) to arrive; to obtain; to procure; to extend the arm outward (b) to write a statement of purchases; to make a bill of sale (c) to cap; to cork; to stop up; to block; to advertise (d) to want; to command; to determine; to decide Q2 v. target (a) to be worthy of; to have a right to (b) to aim at something (c) to provide a guarantee against possible damage or loss; to make certain (d) to realize; to make a reality; to accomplish; to complete; to execute Q3 n. loom (a) ecclesiastical judge; priest (b) anticipation; longing or waiting for; hope (c) apparatus on which fabrics are woven; weaving machine (d) person who presides over court trials; arbiter; expert; critic Q4 adj. spot (a) having begun a journey (especially of a sea vessel); initiated; in progress; under construction (b) working; functional; ready for use (c) made or done immediately; paid at once; performed randomly (d) credible; trustworthy; dependable Q5 v. put up with (a) to dispute; to claim; to give reasons (b) to wrap; to combine things together as one inseparable unit (c) to finance; to supply with money; to allocate financial sums; to extend a short-term obligation (d) to tolerate; to be patient Q6 adv. apparently (a) still; already; but; in spite of; although (b) evidently; obviously; allegedly; seemingly (c) unfavorably; in a manner that works against; antagonistically (d) regularly; often Q7 adj. exclusively (a) easy; uncomplicated; modest; ordinary; plain (b) unlicensed; forbidden; unlawful (c) in a manner which shuts out all others; solely; in a limited manner (d) belonging to oneself or itself (mine, yours, his, etc.); self; by oneself Q8 v. proof (a) to set some distance apart (b) to make resistant; to make impervious; to edit (c) to pull; to drag (d) to stop a vehicle; to slow down a vehicle Q9 v. sense (a) to separate; to be separated; to decrease; to become smaller (b) to couple; to be part one of a match; to mate (c) to arrange; to order; to systematize; to set up; to unite; to structure (d) to feel; to perceive; to apprehend; to understand Q10 v. regulate (a) to crash; to meet head on; to come together with solid or direct impact (b) to make level; to smooth; to balance (c) to control; to govern; to manage; to adjust to a specific level or condition (d) to sell; to trade or deal; to distribute; to promote 290 Answers Index