Lesson 178 - Toeic Test Vocabulary

1) n. occurrence

(a) amount of money received in payment for goods or services or from other sources; revenue; profits
(b) hoe; tool used to spread soil; choice; selection; plectrum; small piece of metal or plastic with which a stringed instrument may be played
(c) happening; event; incident
(d) probability; feasibility; chance; likelihood

2) n. proliferation

(a) area of lan d set aside to protect natural resources and wildlife
(b) workers' association; federation; amalgamation; marriage; reproductive coupling; device which fits two pieces together
(c) traveling on a ship; sea voyage; sailing
(d) rapid multiplication; rapid reproduction; prosperity; rapid growth; instance of thriving

3) n. courier

(a) ruin; desolation; annihilation
(b) messenger; person who carries a message or goes an errand; company that delivers messages, documents, parcels, etc.
(c) opening; breach; hiatus; space; great difference; disparity
(d) pillow; soft padded object

4) n. leverage

(a) structure; pattern; design; organization; pattern of data organization
(b) place where one can borrow books
(c) metal clip for binding papers; basic food item; essential element; main crop or product of a region; trade item that is constantly in demand; fiber (of wool, cotton, etc.)
(d) influence; abilility to affect or alter people or cirumstance; use of borrowed money to increase the return on an investment

5) n. originality

(a) knowledge; intelligence; data; act of providing knowledge
(b) state of not being a derivative of anything else
(c) contrast; something contrary
(d) relief; consolation; coziness

6) n. potency

(a) rules introduced by the government to regulate the trade of securities and mutual funds
(b) hug; act of wrapping one's arms around another person or thing
(c) power; strength; force; capacity to be
(d) line printed at the top of a piece of stationary (usually containing a name, address, etc.); stationary printed with a heading

7) n. spread

(a) forming of mental images to control bodily processes
(b) profit from the difference between costs and net sales
(c) act of giving in to desire; something which gratifies; luxury; leniency; tolerance; humoring; pampering
(d) food that can be spread (onto bread, etc.); cloth cover for a bed or table; expansion; growth; large area of land; range; large meal; story or advertisement that covers two pages

8) n. focus

(a) pointing out of similarities and differences; similarity; likeness
(b) stimulus; inducement; enticement; encouragement
(c) written order for a medication; instruction; directive; order; command
(d) center; hub; concentration

9) n. mayor

(a) course or method of action; guidelines; position; standpoint; insurance contract
(b) day, month and year according to the calendar; interview; meeting
(c) elected offical acting as executive head of a town or city
(d) truthfulness; sincerity; integrity; frankness

10) n. file

(a) apparatus on which fabrics are woven; weaving machine
(b) certificate; entry pass; tag
(c) choice; alternative; possibility; selection; election
(d) dossier; collection of documents on a subject; collection of computer data which is stored under one filename; file folder; tool for smoothing surfaces; line; queue

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