Lesson 576 - Toeic Test Vocabulary

1) n. consultant

(a) advisor (adviser); counselor; coach; person who gives proffesional advice
(b) public sale where goods are sold to the highest bidder (eBay is a very popular auction site)
(c) study session; exercise; assignment given to a student; something to be studied and learned; experience which brings knowledge or wisdom; scolding; rebuke
(d) explanation; meaning; interpretation (as of a word or term)

2) v. machine

(a) to lend a sum of money for a period of time; to give temporarily
(b) to produce via mechanical means; to create using a machine
(c) to recognize; to show to be the same; to sympathize; to relate; to associate oneself with a particular cause or idea
(d) to eat or drink; to use up; to destroy

3) v. elicit

(a) to extract from; to bring out; to draw out
(b) to interest; to amuse; to host; to hold or maintain in the mind (i.e. a feeling, an idea, a thought, etc.)
(c) to be in possession of; to belong to; to confess
(d) to want; to act by will power; to cause will power; to command; to determine; to decide

4) v. provision

(a) to offer at lower prices than the competition; to cut off the underpart; to slice the ball from underneath (Golf, Tennis); to weaken; to undermine
(b) to supply with stock; to equip with supplies (esp. food)
(c) to tolerate; to be patient
(d) to make a stupid mistake; to move back and forth in a clumsy manner; to move blindly; to grope

5) n. luggage

(a) distribution; liberation; transference
(b) statement which denies responsibility or affiliation; act of disclaiming; repudiation; renouncing of a claim; denial
(c) temporary stay somewhere; instance of spending time with a person or group of people; inspection
(d) suitcases; cases and bags carried by travellers

6) adj. disparate

(a) opposed
(b) about to happen; imminent
(c) markedly different; contrasting
(d) well-known; excellent; wonderful

7) adj. bound

(a) free; autonomous; self-governing; sovereign; self-reliant; self-sufficient
(b) obligated; certain; fastened; tied
(c) belonging to oneself or itself (mine, yours, his, etc.); self; by oneself
(d) useful; used to present food or drink; providing assistance; repairing; performing maintenance tasks; per taining to the armed forces

8) adj. usual

(a) compact; having a high mass per unit volume; close
(b) staying in a particular place; not migratory; intrinsic; existing (about characteristics); permanently stored in memory (Computers)
(c) common; regular; ordinary
(d) confined usually by illness;

9) n. project

(a) act or instance of rendering unsusceptible to disease by inoculating
(b) plan, scheme, program; task, assignment, activity
(c) honesty; fairness; justice
(d) photograph; drawing; painting; film; embodiment; incarnation

10) n. software

(a) programs which control the functions of a computer's hardware
(b) goal; aim; intention; objective
(c) knowledge obtained by doing; something that one has lived through
(d) officer of a monastery, high-ranking member of a religious order

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