Lesson 498 - Toeic Test Vocabulary

1) n. permit

(a) verification of a person or thing; recognition; the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering
(b) license; authorization
(c) person who foretells future events; weatherman
(d) act of coming into view; impression; the way a person looks; image; semblance

2) n. duress

(a) temporary stop; standstill; break or pause in a march or journey
(b) intimidation; constraint; pressure; coercion
(c) opposite of child; a grown-up; a mature person
(d) postponement; hindrance; hold-up; stopping; lingering

3) v. elect

(a) to choose; to vote for; to prefer; to decide
(b) to devote oneself to a particular profession or field of study; to adapt to a particular environment (Biology); to limit; to restrict; to make special
(c) to interpret; to see; to perceive
(d) to count; to equal in amount; to limit; to allot; to be included in (a specific group); to total; to add up to

4) v. endure

(a) to terminate; to end; to be terminated; to bring to an end; to destroy; to defeat; to complete; to perfect; to add the finishing touches
(b) to breast-feed; to suckle; to provide medical care; to take care of; to work as a nurse; to use up slowly; to dwell on; to harbor (especially of jealousy or anger)
(c) to put up with something or somebody unpleasant
(d) to jump; to leap

5) v. deny

(a) to change from rural to urban; to make into a city; to impart urban characteristics
(b) to partition; to be partitioned
(c) to say that something is not true; to refuse; to renounce
(d) to work; to toil; to exert oneself; to work hard; to struggle (especially to attain a goal); to move heavily; to discuss or think about excessively

6) adj. tense

(a) strained; taut; rigid; nervous; stressful
(b) clear; obvious; apparent
(c) final; occurring as a result
(d) careful; wanting to do what is right

7) n. decade

(a) view; vista; panorama; set; backdrop used onstage to portray a particular setting or locale
(b) ten years; group of tens
(c) combination; conjunction; group; mixture
(d) necessity; obligation; need; new wine; grape juice that has not yet fermented; stum

8) n. vending machine

(a) automated device used for selling items
(b) person who puts money into a project; person or organization that invests
(c) access; method; system; procedure
(d) topic; subject; matter; question; problem; end result; publication (i.e. newspaper, magazine, newsletter, etc.); act of sending out; distribution

9) n. directory

(a) gratefulness; thankfulness; appreciation
(b) system used to place one event in relation to another (such as past vs. present, yesterday vs. today); period; era; hour; rate
(c) guidebook; library; catalog; subdivision of a disk in which files are stored (Computers); web portal site
(d) the level of monetary funding a company needs to run smoothly

10) v. found

(a) to provide additional details; to plan carefully and with great detail; to produce; to develop
(b) to establish; to institute; to create; to build; to set up; to start a company; to melt
(c) to follow
(d) to record for evidence; to write down; to provide with documentary evidence; to substantiate

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