Lesson 238 - Toeic Test Vocabulary

1) n. appliance

(a) tool; gadget; device; appartus
(b) furnace which burns things to ashes
(c) overseer; director; manager
(d) regard; esteem; renown

2) n. guilt

(a) event; occurence; one of a group of loosely connected stories
(b) state of having committed a crime or offense; culpability; feeling of having done something wrong
(c) weather conditions; surrounding conditions; atmosphere; setting
(d) something or someone that does not match up to standards; object of lower quality; outcast (Slang)

3) n. aggregate

(a) communication; information; announcement; note; memo; communication transmitted through a messenger; intimation
(b) something that is discarded; rubbish; trash; junk; waste; refuse; anything thought to be worthless or substandard
(c) combination; conjunction; group; mixture
(d) line, file (British); row; braid, plait

4) v. withstand

(a) to enclose in a frame (i.e. a picture); to contrive false evidence against; to set up; to construct; to build; to fashion; to formulate
(b) to draft into military service; to voluntarily join a cause
(c) to bear; to endure
(d) to worry; to cause concern; to annoy; to bother; to cause discomfort; to disturb

5) n. arrival

(a) characteristic; function; capability (of a product, machine, device, software etc.); prominent quality; facial structure; full-length film; attraction; regular column (in a newspaper); attribute; advantage
(b) reaching a destination; appearance; incoming; opposite of depature; comeback
(c) manner of doing business; behavior; distribution; giving out
(d) person who invents something (i.e. Thomas Edison or Alexander Bell); creator; designer

6) n. weight

(a) cipher; string of commands in a programming language (Computers); collection of instructions of the law; the codex and rules
(b) heaviness; unit of mass; mental burden; pressure; importance; influence
(c) class; division; section; segment
(d) device made up of interconnected parts that work together to perform a given task or funciton

7) v. fleet

(a) to presume to be true; to hypothesize; to believe; to think; to consider as a possibility
(b) to examine; to investigate; to check closely; to inspect (also scrutinize)
(c) to move quickly; to pass quickly
(d) to place between other things; to throw into the center of; to interpolate; to insert a remark or comment in the middle of a conversation

8) adv. certainly

(a) moderately; quite; rather; to some extent
(b) intentionally; purposefully; methodically
(c) of course; surely; doubtlessly; definitely; absolutely
(d) in the end; eventually

9) v. invoice

(a) to bill; to charge
(b) to determine the scope of a target; to extend; to stretch; to vary; to fluctuate within certain boundaries
(c) to envision; to create a mental image which does not literally exist; to fantasize; to visualize; to think; to suppose; to assume; to guess
(d) to require; to be in distress; to be under hardship; to be obligated

10) adj. paramount

(a) distant, located far away; secluded; isolated; distant in time or relation; aloof; standoffish; operated by remote control; slight; unlikely
(b) conspicuous; bulging outward; protruding; remarkable; noticeable
(c) superior, supreme; above all; of the highest rank; most important
(d) done over again

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