342 toeic vocabulary tests meanings by word episode 1 part 8

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TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 228

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

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TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 229

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

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TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 230

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

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