Lesson 312 - Toeic Test Vocabulary

1) n. average

(a) length of cloth worn by women as a face covering; netting attached to a woman's hat; something which hides or conceals (such as a curtain); nun's headdress; vow's of a nun; membrane which covers an immature mushroom
(b) mean, median
(c) the time or amount of money that defined by checks that have been deposited but not cleared yet
(d) track, path; customary series of stops during a trip; path taken by a data package sent from one point on the Internet to another (Computers)

2) n. standpoint

(a) confidence; faith; credit; faithfulness; monopoly; several companies banded together in order to reduce competition; custody; safekeeping
(b) outlook; perspective; view; opinion; attitude
(c) opening stroke or hit of the ball (Sports)
(d) rear; end; seat

3) n. agent

(a) meeting; conference; set; group of people; congregation
(b) place; location; area; location on the World Wide Web which is composed of a group of related HTML files centered around a home page (Computers)
(c) person who is authorized to perform a certain action; representative; factor; cause
(d) ecclesiastical judge; priest

4) n. competition

(a) careful observation of a person or group
(b) rivalry; contest; act of competing against another
(c) great number of persons or things; many; a lot; composed of a countless number of items
(d) training

5) n. clerk

(a) minor office worker; book-keeper; bureaucrat
(b) afternoon party where a light meal is served
(c) passage that leads out
(d) enhancement; refinement; improvement

6) n. style

(a) person who does not belong to any political party
(b) person who works in a skilled occupation, specialist
(c) manner; way; particular way of life (especially one that is luxurious); fashion; chic; vogue; ancient writing instrument; part of a pistil (Botany); stylet; slender pointed pr ocess (Zoology)
(d) class; division; section; segment

7) n. consumption

(a) opportunity; occurrence, event; incident; reason; cause; justification
(b) behavior; management
(c) using up
(d) park; land set aside for a specific use; doubt; misgiving; act of ordering in advance (hotel room, airline ticket, etc.); tract of land set aside for Native Americans

8) n. content

(a) comment; remark; ascription; relation; mention; allusion; regard; note that directs a reader to another source of information; supporting evidence taken from another book or publication
(b) substance; component; all that is inside of something
(c) sequence; succession; television program broadcast in installments; (Mathematics) sequence of numbers which are added together in succession (often an infinite sequence)
(d) sum of money that has been put in a bank for safekeepinkg; partial payment; pledge

9) n. danger

(a) risk; peril; hazard
(b) list of terms and definitions (usually at the end of a book); dictionary of technial or specific terms
(c) exchange; transfer; slender flexible rod; hairpiece; whipping; device which opens or breaks an electric current; device that opens or closes circuits or selects paths (Computers); device which diverts trains from one track to another (Railroads)
(d) a situation in which the imports of a country from the USA are larger than their exports to the USA

10) n. completion

(a) finishing; finalizing
(b) trust; certainty; faith in oneself; secret
(c) person or company that does a particular job or assignment
(d) researcher; investigator; person who travels to unknown regions; software program for file management

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