Lesson 578 - Toeic Test Vocabulary

1) n. subsidy

(a) act of launching; act of sending out; act of starting or initiating; commencement; inauguration
(b) backlash
(c) financial assistance
(d) colorful fabric with a pattern of square s and crossbars

2) n. estate

(a) financial obligation; debt; responsibility; obligation; disadvantage; handicap; likelihood
(b) act of measuring and recording the characteristics of a plot of land; land survey report (often in the form of a map); review; overview; statistical study
(c) innovation; something new; discovery
(d) extensive piece of land usually with a large house on it; person's property; wealth; possessions; status; social standing; rank

3) n. harvest

(a) cloth made of woven threads; textile; weave; structure; framework; construction
(b) right; special privilege
(c) profit from the difference between costs and net sales
(d) reaping; gathering in of crops; time of the year when crops are gathered; amount of crops gathered in a season; outcome; product

4) n. main

(a) system for prompt transportation of people or parcels; dispatch conveyed by special messenger; messenger sent on special errand
(b) reiteration; act of redoing something
(c) sameness; uniformity
(d) principal pipe or duct in a system; chief part of something; strenght or force; high sea

5) n. victim

(a) one of the four quarters of the year (winter, spring, summer, autumn); period of time characterized by a certain quality or event; time
(b) transgressor; person who breaks the law; one who insults
(c) habit; tradition; convention
(d) person who falls prey (to an attack, deception, etc.)

6) n. sum

(a) property; site; area; grounds; lands; office or building with the grounds belonging to it
(b) amount that is determined by adding two or more numbers; whole amount; entire quantity; unspecified amount; essence; gist; group of numbers to be added up; summary
(c) 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)
(d) picture; snapshot

7) n. advert

(a) public announcement or printed notice designed to attract attention
(b) realization; carrying out; performing; putting into effect; execution; act of equipping with tools
(c) financial assistance
(d) act of fixing; correction; act of mending

8) n. collection

(a) appointment; proposal of a candidate (for an office or an honor)
(b) end; deduction; cognition; final decision
(c) group of objects that are related to each other; selection; choice; assortment; accumulation
(d) degree of difference; step or degree in a graduated scale; (British) promotion of a student to a higher grade

9) n. confidence

(a) spatial dimension; measurement; extent; degree; adhesive used to fill pores in paper and cloth
(b) trust; certainty; faith in oneself; secret
(c) suggestion; tender; plan; offer of marriage
(d) adjacency; nearness; closeness; vicinity

10) n. interview

(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) meeting at which a person is evaluated through questioning (as for a job); meeting at which information is gathered by a report er; press conference
(c) deletion; negligence; failure; default
(d) exertion of force; application of weight; weight; burden; encumbrance

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