PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 213 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 213 Q1 n. sharp (a) occasion; instance; situation; bag (b) sewing needle; swindler; cheater; professional gambler (c) rule enacted by a community or country; custom; principle; convention (d) substance; component; all that is inside of something Q2 n. luncheon (a) cause; basis for action; intelligence; sense (b) afternoon party where a light meal is served (c) shape having three sides and three corners; group of three (d) release; approval; washing Q3 n. improvement (a) tanned and preserved animal skin; item made of animal skin (b) something which enhances or improves; addition or change which adds value to something (c) variety; collection; selection; range; mixture (d) aircraft which flies by means of horizontally rotating blades Q4 n. consignment (a) behavior; conduct; bearing; appearance (c) delivery; dispatch; conveyance (b) class; division; section; segment (d) claim; requirement; strong request Q5 n. century (a) period of one hundred years (b) expansion; growth; range; story or advertisement that covers two pages (c) short dash; short line used to connect or separate words or syllables (-) (d) leveling; harmony; stability; rest; remainder Q6 n. blue sky laws (a) one who relies on another especially for financial support (b) rules introduced by the government to regulate the trade of securities and mutual funds (c) payment given for regularly scheduled performances or publications (d) calculation of size or extent; assessment of capacity or dimension Q7 n. fraud (a) swindle; deceit; cheating; forgery; embezzlement (b) alliance; union; agreement (c) the U.S. treasury (d) beginning letter of a person's first name; first letter (as of a word) Q8 n. accuracy (a) reference point; geographical location (b) caption beneath an illustration (c) command; order; authorization granted from one body to a subordinate body (d) preciseness; exactness Q9 n. ill (a) request for one's presence; summons; call (b) standard of measure; device for measuring (pressure, amount, distance, etc.) (c) withdrawal from one's job or occupation (d) trouble; misfortune; evil; harm; disease; sickness Q10 n. diet (a) nourishment; nutrition; food and drink; regimen; weight loss plan (b) preference; precedence; higher rank; privileged position; seniority (c) inventory of legal investments for savings banks and trust funds (d) careful observation of a person or group 231 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 214 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 214 Q1 v. voyage (a) to make haste; to rush; to urge; to prod; to dash (b) to anticipate gladly (c) to take a cruise; to travel; to make a journey (d) to labor; to act; to operate; to activate; to process Q2 v. procure (a) to obtain; to acquire; to get; to buy; to purchase (b) to impose a tariff; to impose a levy; to burden; to demand too much (c) to attempt to discover or test something; to try; to venture; to research (d) to mark as different; to see as different; to discern; to recognize Q3 v. industrialize (a) to channel; to centralize (b) to innovate and develop production (c) to detain; to slow down; to capture; to imprison (d) to establish; to erect; to throw; to toss Q4 v. alter (a) to infer; to conjecture; to guess; to presume (b) to measure; to evaluate; to determine; to estimate (c) to change; to modify (d) to pull by force; to twist; to cut off; to distort; to pervert Q5 v. line (a) to place in a row; to cover the inside of; to pad (b) eject; drive out; banish (c) to happen; to take place; to transpire; to come to mind; to suggest itself (d) to reconstruct; to erect again Q6 v. adjust (a) to raise money for; to provide with funds; to fund; to pay for (b) to separate into sections; to partition (c) to have a mean of a certain amount (d) to modify; to adapt; to fit; to arrange; to settle Q7 v. edit (a) to respect deeply; to honor greatly (b) to join with; to connect to; to become attached to (c) to revise; to alter; to make changes and corrections prior to printing (d) to describe; to depict; to portray; to outline Q8 v. speed (a) to accelerate; to cause to move quickly; to expedite; to further; to hurry (b) to want; to command; to determine; to decide (c) to be compatible; to be suitable; to be an equal competitor; to compare (d) to remind of; to state; to refer to; to hint at; to indicate Q9 v. strike (a) to temporarily cease working as a protest; to impress (b) to communicate data to; to tell; to brief; to notify (c) to draw attention; to captivate; to fascinate (d) to go regularly to (a certain place); to patronize Q10 v. insert (a) to place in; to put in; to add to (b) to stop; to cause to stop; to pause; to hesitate; to be uncertain (c) to estimate; to compute; to depend upon (d) to enter 232 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 215 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 215 Q1 n. wallpaper (a) picture or design used as a background for the other images in a graphical user interface (b) conjecture; supposition; hypothesis (c) sharp stinging pain (d) intimidation; constraint; pressure; coercion Q2 n. design (a) detail; individual characteristic; item; article; specific proposition (b) plan; sketch; model; layout; structure (c) division of a company; section; area (d) enhancement; refinement; improvement Q3 n. postmaster (a) mark; objective; aim; object; goal (b) mail manager, person responsible for managing electronic mail on a network (Computers) (c) portable personal computer; laptop computer (d) more current version of something Q4 v. impress (a) to affect strongly; to emphasize; to stamp (b) to continue; to carry on; to advance; to progress; to move forward (c) to hypnotize; to enthrall (d) to carry out; to conduct; to perform Q5 n. insult (a) celebration; feast; dinner; drinking (b) expansion; growth; range; story or advertisement that covers two pages (c) affront; offense; rude remark or action (d) rubble; ruins; wreckage; fragments Q6 n. tow (a) act of dragging or pulling with a rope or chain (b) article cut from a newspaper (c) place where grain is stored; granary; storehouse; collection; store (d) importance that is attached to something; accent or stress that is placed on a word or words Q7 n. production (a) durability; determination; resolve; power; intensity; force (b) stance (c) manufacture; assembly; output; yield (d) act of sending out; act of starting or initiating; commencement; inauguration Q8 n. sort (a) type; kind; character; manner; quality (b) means of transport (car, bus, etc.); instrument; means; medium (c) organization and interpretation of numerical data (d) injury; harm Q9 v. comprise (a) to affect; to impact; to impel; to control (b) to give; to submit; to transform; to represent; to depict (c) to provide with the required supplies, tools and items (d) to include; to contain; to consist Q10 adv. throughout (a) in every; during (b) ahead; to the front (c) previously; before a certain time (d) mildly; deliberatively; in a temperate manner; not excessively; reasonably 233 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 216 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 216 Q1 n. diversity (a) pledge; vow; declaration of intention; source of hope; basis for expectations (b) person or thing which promotes; expeditor (c) seminar; brief intensive educational program; discussion group (d) variety; difference; unlikeness Q2 n. baggage (a) detailed account of an occurrence or situation (b) luggage; cargo; things to take on a trip; equipment (c) denial; rejection (d) total number of people living in an area Q3 n. significance (a) person who is resistant to change; person who favors traditional political parties (b) lack of knowledge; illiteracy; lack of education; state of being uninformed (c) method; way; medium; resources; funds (d) meaning; sense; quality of having meaning Q4 n. offense (a) seal; trademark (b) information that is confidential or classified; mystery; unexplained phenomenon (c) lodger; occupant; resident; renter; landlord (d) attack; misdeed; insult; transgression Q5 n. shop (a) small retail store; studio; business; office; outlet (b) strength; period; permanence (c) acknowledgment; strong persuasion or belief; condemnation (d) meeting; seminar; convention Q6 n. speech (a) dampness; moistness; mugginess (b) transmission; dispatch; radio program (c) speaking ability; something that is communicated orally (d) license; authorization Q7 v. groom (a) to rub off; to remove totally; to delete (b) to find the answer to; to explain (c) to tend carefully; to take care of; to make clean and tidy; to prepare for (d) to understand; to comprehend; to accomplish; to convert into cash; to liquidate Q8 n. mark (a) person who owns and operates a food store (b) piece of long fiction with a plot and characters; story (c) sign; indication; symbol; grade; trace (d) ecclesiastical judge; priest Q9 n. mentor (a) foundation; grounding (b) price; cargo; responsibility (c) adviser; counselor; person who guides and teaches; spiritual instructor (d) explanation; illustration; instruction Q10 n. warranty (a) study of the statistical characteristics of a population (b) a situation in which the imports of a country from the USA are larger than their exports to the USA (c) guarantee; authority; justification (d) probability; chance; feasibility; possibility 234 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 217 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 217 Q1 v. funnel (a) to get; to accept; to absorb; to take in; to host; to accommodate (b) to startle; to astonish; to ambush (c) to breast-feed; to suckle; to provide medical care; to take care of (d) to channel; to centralize Q2 v. strap (a) to capture; to assume control (b) to tie with a narrow piece of leather; to lash (c) to reveal; to uncover; to disclose (d) to decide; to define; to conclude; to cause; to affect Q3 v. injure (a) to move with sudden speed; to bolt; to shatter; to hurl; to cast (b) to send; to direct; to ascribe to; to relate to; to apply to; to call attention to (c) to sightsee; to voyage; to travel (d) to hurt; to wound; to insult; to offend; to damage Q4 v. publicize (a) to obtain; to protect; to defend; to strengthen (b) to act; to function; to manage; to use; to activate; to perform surgery (c) to confirm to be true; to authorize (d) to advertise; to bring to the attention of a large audience Q5 v. compose (a) to create; to write; to relax; to calm oneself; to settle (b) to issue a command; to make an official order (c) to appreciate; to esteem; to respect; to appraise; to assess worth (d) to profit; to gain; to be advantageous Q6 v. instrument (a) to direct along a particular path; to chart a course (b) to equip with devices for measuring, recording, or controlling (c) to be acquainted with; to understand; to distinguish; to be aware of (d) to put off to a later time; to delay; to defer; to put off until later; to stay Q7 v. earn (a) to name; to call; to designate (b) to receive as a result of work or other service performed; to profit; to be eligible; to be worthy (c) to oppose; to retaliate; to react; to strike back (d) to employ a group of workers; to provide with employees; to man Q8 v. pleasure (a) to enlarge; to add to; to multiply; to raise; to intensify (b) to impose; to cause something unpleasant (c) to cause someone enjoyment (d) to approve; to verify; to ascertain Q9 v. fuel (a) to arrange according to dimension (b) to blend; to be blended; to combine or unite into a single body; to be assimilated (c) to try or to intend to achieve something; to direct; to plan; to aspire (d) to provide with a combustible substance that provides energy Q10 v. lead (a) to lounge; to do nothing; to laze around (b) to make a stupid mistake; to move back and forth in a clumsy manner (c) to conduct; to guide; to direct; to influence (d) to express regret; to say sorry 235 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 218 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 218 Q1 adj. proper (a) correct; suitable; just; complete (c) imaginary; hypothetical; computer simulated (b) chief; leading; main; principal (d) comprising the best result ever attained Q2 n. sweater (a) small globule of liquid; drip; very small amount; pendant (b) condition; influencing factor; situation (c) pullover; employer who underpays his employees (d) hurt; wound; harm; damage; insult Q3 n. momentum (a) large room used for lectures; talks, performances and other events (b) force of movement; strength or motivation derived from an initial effort (c) silence; noiselessness; stillness; tranquility; muteness; speechlessness (d) chance meeting Q4 n. fuel (a) substance burned to create energy (petrol, gasoline, gas, wood, coal, etc.) (b) coins and paper notes which have value; currency; medium of trade; wealth (c) volume; mass; main part; most (d) tool for cutting consisting of a toothed blade; saying; maxim; proverb Q5 n. uniqueness (a) easement; alleviation; liberation; aid; assistance (b) singularity; individuality; incomparability (c) necessity; obligation; new wine; grape juice that has not yet fermented (d) negative tendency (especially in economy or business) Q6 n. capacity (a) seal; trademark (b) rival; (i.e. Coca Cola and Pepsi); person who participates in a contest (c) volume which can be contained or received; function; role; feature; potential (d) supply; stock; measure; means; condition; stipulation Q7 v. owe (a) to be indebted to; to be under obligation to pay or repay (b) to be involved; to join in (c) to interchange; to take turns; to rotate; to substitute (d) to carry out; to conduct; to perform Q8 n. stem (a) bid; offer; overseer; supervisor (b) central stalk of a plant; petiole (c) small container for documents; tool for synchronizing files between two computers (d) tag; sign; identification tag Q9 n. discipline (a) head; leader; chairman; chief (b) public announcement or printed notice designed to attract attention (c) training (d) protective coating Q10 n. investor (a) bid; offer; overseer; supervisor (c) person who puts money into a project (b) result of manufacturing; goods; merchandise (d) help; assistance; accessory 236 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 219 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 219 Q1 n. adjustment (a) adaption; settlement of an insurance claim (b) process of making neat and attractive (c) inflow; inward flow; place where a stream flows into another body of water (d) item; piece of information; part of a whole Q2 n. gathering (a) long thin mark; row; border; domain; tactic (b) assembly; meeting; convention; cluster; collection (c) possessions; belongings; estate; assets; ownership (d) compound; various objects that for m a unit Q3 n. definition (a) choosing; time when people vote for a political candidate (b) this being the case; since (used in formal documents) (c) explanation; meaning; interpretation (as of a word or term) (d) joining; union; an ordered sequence Q4 n. code (a) cipher; collection of instructions of the law (b) reply; answer; reaction (c) holiday (d) politeness; good manners; cordiality; civility Q5 n. greenhouse (a) act of repairing; renewal; act of restoring to good condition (b) act of suddenly swooping down and grabbing; sudden assault or attack (c) group of twenty items; debt; account; bill; grade on a test (d) structure built mainly of glass in which plants are cultivated out of season Q6 n. exertion (a) adaption; settlement of an insurance claim (b) putting to use; putting into action; effort; struggle; strain (c) meeting; seminar; convention (d) security; warranty; pledge; assurance Q7 n. mall (a) depot; wholesale store; large retail store (b) shopping center; pedestrian walkway; promenade (c) plentifulness; abundance; numerousness; plurality (d) manner of acting; conduct Q8 v. sum (a) to respect deeply; to honor greatly (b) to add (c) to rely on; to trust; to be supported by (d) to have to; to be obligated; to be likely or probable Q9 n. advance (a) progress; modernization; promotion (b) political group; social gathering; side of an agreement; group; gang (c) nourishment; substance which provides the body with nutrients; sustenance (d) rebound; recoiling; sudden movement to the rear Q10 n. loop (a) fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines (b) attraction; lottery; contest which ends in a tie; natural channel; gully (c) newspaper that is published 5 to 7 times a week (d) abuse; molestation 237 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 220 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 220 Q1 v. precondition (a) to seize; to capture; to possess; to contract (b) to assign to a particular post or position; to appoint (c) to train in advance (d) to profit; to roll a ball into a hole (Billiards) Q2 v. box (a) to operate; to activate; to manage; to direct; to carry out; to fulfill (b) to be concerned; to harass; to advance through great effort (c) to fight with fists; to put crates (d) to represent by chart; to draw a curve representing a given function Q3 v. interject (a) to judge an object's value; to appraise; to assess; to guess (b) to try; to live through; to feel; to endure (c) to place between other things; to throw into the center of (d) to send; to direct; to ascribe to; to relate to; to apply to; to call attention to Q4 v. blame (a) to encase; to review; to protect; to include; to insure (b) to plan; to design; to name; to call (c) to back; to support; to finance; to subsidize; to promote (d) to accuse; to denounce Q5 v. exist (a) to rent out property for a specific period of time; to let (b) to live; to be (c) to join; to cause to become one (d) to tie down Q6 v. prohibit (a) to warn; to scold; to reprove (b) to negotiate; to arrive at an agreement (c) to sell something through a bidding system (d) to outlaw; to forbid by law; to interdict; to ban; to prevent Q7 v. postpone (a) to put off to a later time; to delay; to defer; to put off until later; to stay (b) to make a detailed list of property; to summarize; to sum up the worth of (c) to examine accounts and other financial records (d) to slander; to defame Q8 v. dislodge (a) to extricate; to remove; to evict; to oust; to expel (b) to make ready; to get oneself ready; to put into the proper condition (c) to change; to modify (d) to hunt; to pursue; to run over; to race Q9 v. render (a) to relieve; to calm; to alleviate pain (b) to give; to submit; to transform; to represent; to depict (c) to slope; to bend; to bow; to slant; to influence (d) to alter; to change; to fluctuate Q10 v. concern (a) to cover a part of; to have something in common (b) to impregnate; to inseminate; to enrich the soil by the addition of organic or chemical substances (c) to involve; to affect; to worry; to interest; to relate to (d) to stress; to show the importance of 238 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 221 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 221 Q1 v. raise (a) to elevate; to lift; to excite; to arouse; to cause (b) to appear as a large and indistinct form; to appear as larger than life; to impend (c) to fall; to make fall; to bring down; to go down; to omit; to abandon (d) to indicate; to itemize; to mark; to designate; to stipulate Q2 v. predict (a) to put to practical use; to take advantage of (b) to prophesy; to foretell; to announce in advance (c) to intend; to plan; to design; to aim (d) to agree; to give; to bestow; to answer to; to donate Q3 v. commit (a) to protect; to guard; to evade a question; to respond in a vague manner (b) to agree; to harmonize; to coincide; to collaborate; to consent (c) to contrive false evidence against; to set up; to construct; to build; to fashion; to formulate (d) to perform; to do; to engage Q4 n. trustee (a) meaning; sense; importance; consequence; act of pointing out (b) person who has the right to grant a license (c) person who translates from one language to another (orally); person how clarifies; commentator (d) person granted legal custodianship over property not belonging to him Q5 n. recipient (a) caution; wisdom; careful judgment (b) person who accepts; person who takes or gets (c) adviser; counselor; person who guides and teaches; spiritual instructor (d) house; dwelling; structure; premises Q6 n. plaid (a) device used to destroy documents by cutting them into small strips or pieces (b) colorful fabric with a pattern of square s and crossbars (c) organization; society; union; coalition; foundation (d) 12 dozen; 144 Q7 n. triangle (a) report of recent events; information about previously unknown facts (b) shape having three sides and three corners; group of three (c) substance burned to create energy (petrol, gasoline, gas, wood, coal, etc.) (d) collapse; crash; incident Q8 v. tailor (a) to aid; to help; to support; to guide; to direct (b) to impregnate; to inseminate; to enrich the soil by the addition of organic or chemical substances (c) to move to a different apartment; to move to a different place (d) to create or adapt for a particular need or desire Q9 v. insult (a) to go on; to keep doing something; to last; to perpetuate (b) to evolve; to make to progress; to grow professionally; to develop; to speed (c) to speak or act in a rude or contemptuous manner; to offend; to affront (d) to record; to order in advance; to inscribe; to indicate Q10 v. section (a) to respect; to esteem; to pay tribute; to praise; to accept (b) to divide; to split (c) to avoid; to run away; to shrink (d) to accomplish; to put into action; to execute; to do 239 Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 222 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 222 Q1 n. alert (a) printed form that entitles the holder to certain rights such as in a discount (b) learning; instruction; imparting of knowledge; upbringing (c) warning; alarm; attitude of readiness (d) agreement; settling of a disagreement by making mutual concessions Q2 n. debris (a) art and science of disease treatment and health maintenance; remedy; drug (b) rubble; ruins; wreckage; fragments (c) issue; affair; question; problem; substance of a particular composition and consistency (d) admiration; respect Q3 n. scope (a) way of life (c) transmission; dispatch; radio program (b) range; extent; sphere; expanse (d) adjacency; nearness; closeness; vicinity Q4 n. contact (a) end; deduction; cognition; final decision (c) link; connection; touch; interface (b) contrast; something contrary (d) reminder; internal document Q5 n. impulse (a) list of terms and definitions (usually at the end of a book); dictionary of technical or specific terms (b) instinctual urge; sudden desire; whim; wave of energy sent via a nerve (c) person who falls prey (to an attack, deception, etc.) (d) mind; understanding; leader; person in authority; top Q6 n. identification (a) verification of a person or thing; recognition (b) citation; passage taken from another source; reference; commercial offer; statement of price (c) traveling on a ship; sea voyage; sailing (d) officer of a monastery; high-ranking member of a religious order Q7 n. leaflet (a) point at which something ends; edge; border; restriction; restraint (b) farm with large pasture land for raising livestock (c) sheet of paper on which information has been printed; flyer (d) class; division; section; segment Q8 n. intent (a) chamber; bureau; incumbency; agency; authority (b) concern; fear; misfortune; distress (c) gratification of a need; remuneration; fulfillment (d) plan; goal; aim; objective; meaning Q9 n. adversity (a) building used for a particular purpose; business; audience; legislative body (b) misfortune; hardship; distress; suffering (c) point at which something ends; edge; border; restriction; restraint (d) assembly; meeting; convention; cluster; collection Q10 n. drive (a) matching outfit consisting of a jacket and trousers or a skirt; request; courtship (b) something which legally or rightfully belongs to an individual; payment; fee (c) trip in a vehicle; type of computer hardware; combined effort to accomplish a goal (i.e. fund raiser) (d) opposition; act of fighting against; act of withstanding the effects of 240 Answers Index . Test 220 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 220 Q1 v. precondition (a) to seize; to capture; to possess; to contract (b) to assign to a particular. Answers Index PHOTOCOPIABLE © www.english-test.net Test 214 TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 214 Q1 v. voyage (a) to make haste; to rush; to