Lesson 408 - Toeic Test Vocabulary

1) v. pose

(a) to postpone; to disgust; to repulse; to deter
(b) to claim; to require; to request strongly
(c) to cause to become involved in; to arouse curiosity
(d) to stance

2) v. garner

(a) to cover a part of; to have something in common
(b) eject; drive out; banish
(c) to impregnate; to inseminate; to enrich the soil by the addition of organic or chemical substances
(d) to collect; to gather; to accumulate; to store; to place in reserve

3) v. cover

(a) to encase; to review; to conceal completely underneath; to protect; to include; to insure
(b) to advance; to encourage; to promote; to assist
(c) to comfort; to console; to encourage; to relieve; to appease
(d) to hunt for; to look for; to investigate; to examine; to penetrate; to conduct an examination or investigation

4) v. lay off

(a) to appoint; to specify; to identify; to designate
(b) to recover; to regain; to bring back; to fetch; to find and bring back; to rescue; to save; to find information and display it as output (Computers)
(c) to postpone; to dismiss from a job; to fire
(d) to fasten with buttons; to be fastened with buttons

5) v. resume

(a) to annoy; to harass; to worry; to make an effort; to be concerned
(b) to ask for an identification (i.e. in a bar)
(c) to recommence; to begin again; to retake; to take back; to continue; to go on
(d) to help; to assist; to promote; to be beneficial to

6) v. confuse

(a) to embarrass; to mix up; to muddle up; to bewilder; to startle
(b) to cause to remember
(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 come to a sum; to become; to total

7) v. collaborate

(a) to work together; to cooperate
(b) to tend to; to attend; to work; to perform a duty or task; to worship; to function as; to offer; to present; to fulfill a term (of punishment, military service, etc.); to deliver; to provide; to mate with; to service (animals)
(c) to recover
(d) to dispute; to claim; to give reasons

8) v. depict

(a) to make a call; to ring
(b) to describe; to illustrate; to characterize; to portray; to elucidate
(c) to surrender; to quit; to stop doing
(d) to assign to a position or duty; to station; to publicize; to advertise; to inform; to send electronic mail to a newsgroup (Computers); to send by mail; to move up and down in a saddle (Equitation); to travel quickly

9) v. queues

(a) to sign using the first letter or letters of a name
(b) to demand; to require; to insist upon; to force
(c) to stand in line; to make a row, to form a line (British)
(d) to begin; to be created; to result from; to develop; to be born; to be produced

10) v. surprise

(a) to risk; to gamble; to finance; to underwrite; to mark off a boundary using stakes; to tie to a stake
(b) to startle; to astonish; to ambush
(c) to add a footnote; to place a note that directs readers to anothe r source of information (in a book, journal, etc.)
(d) to form a relationship with another person (as in to take a child as one's own); to embrace (an idea, method, belief etc.)

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