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TOEIC Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 263
Q1 v. stop
(a) to halt; to cease; to quit; to close; to block; to impede
(b) to eat or drink; to use up; to destroy
(c) to make an application; to enter; to let something or someone enter
(d) to jump; to leap
Q2 adv. especially
(a) to the smallest extent possible
(c) particularly
(b) moderately; quite; rather; to some extent
(d) at a further point
Q3 n. trial
(a) test; attempt; experiment; annoyance
(b) gradual payment of debt; the reduction of the value of an asset
(c) celebration; feast; dinner; drinking
(d) work beyond regular working hours; pay for such work
Q4 n. impact
(a) shipping of goods to other countries
(b) copy; photocopy; exact replica; reproduction
(c) concern; affair; percentage on a loan which is paid over time
(d) influence; effect; colliding of two bodies; touch
Q5 n. mailing
(a) yard; formal reception; place where legal trials take place
(b) large batch of letters sent at one time by a single sender; rented property
(c) act or instance of rendering insusceptible to disease by inoculating
(d) association; organization; community; rich upper class; fellowship; companionship
Q6 adj. favorite
(a) confined usually by illness
(b) unusual; exceptional; unique; particular; highly valued

(c) national money of a country; circulation; custom; prevalence
(d) responsibility; duty; burden; impediment; blame
Q2 n. destruction
(a) familiarity; understanding; wisdom; education; awareness
(b) ruin; desolation; annihilation
(c) foundation; principal element; fundamental part
(d) money paid for the use of property; rip; tear; laceration
Q3 n. fortune
(a) movement; journeying
(c) luck; wealth; chance; success; riches
(b) style of cooking; national food
(d) town; large urban area
Q4 n. entertainer
(a) learning; field of learning; thorough investigation; report; analysis
(b) lift; mechanical apparatus for moving people or items from floor to floor within a building
(c) something that is essential or imperative; essentials of life (food, clothing, and shelter)
(d) host; performer; comedian
Q5 n. token
(a) symbol; sign; mark; remembrance
(b) freedom from danger; quality of not causing injury or loss; any security device
(c) process of breaking down a subject and studying it; examination
(d) heaviness; unit of mass; pressure; importance; influence
Q6 n. courtesy
(a) withdrawal from one's job or occupation
(b) large batch of letters sent at one time by a single sender; rented property
(c) politeness; good manners; cordiality; civility
(d) lawyer; barrister; advocate; solicitor
Q7 n. chore
(a) string; thin cord; Internet discussion
(b) routine job; unpleasant task

(b) to come near to; to tackle (a problem or situation)
(c) to design; to mold; to form; to direct; to be formed
(d) to lease; to rent; to employ
Q3 v. base
(a) to establish; to found; to set up; to place on
(b) to take away part of a whole; to remove; to deduct
(c) to manage; to process; to deal in; to do business with; to treat
(d) to hold a party; to feast; to dine; to drink
Q4 v. indulge
(a) to make better; to increase in quality; to enhance; to develop
(b) to continue; to suffice; to endure; to persist
(c) to give in to desire; to yield to; to satisfy; to spoil; to humor
(d) to provide a detailed statement about an occurrence or situation; inform
Q5 v. registering
(a) to esteem; to cherish; to assess; to estimate
(b) to exchange a check (or another money order) for coins and bank notes; to redeem
(c) to record; to enroll; to have an effect; to have influence
(d) to be frightened; to be concerned; to be afraid of; to have respect for
Q6 v. extend
(a) to delay; to obstruct; to hinder; to prevent; to thwart
(b) to rely on; to extend business credit
(c) to stretch; to enlarge; to lengthen; to reach out
(d) to comply; to conform; to follow; to agree
Q7 n. demographics
(a) inflow; inward flow; place where a stream flows into another body of water
(b) study of the statistical characteristics of a population
(c) materials that are used to cushion and cover furniture (i.e. fabric, lining, padding, etc.)
(d) person or organization that prepares printed matter for publication
Q8 v. estimate
(a) to hesitate; to stumble; to sway; to totter; to be unstable

(a) to make ready; to get oneself ready; to put into the proper condition
(b) to reduce the price of; to mark down; to ignore
(c) to permit; to approve; to empower
(d) to stick to; to cling to; to be devoted to (an idea, group, organization etc.)
Q4 n. occupation
(a) act of forcefully taking possession of an area; seizure; conquest; possession or settlement of land
(b) drawing together; fold; pucker
(c) progress; reaching a new level; removal of a barrier; penetration
(d) standard of perfection; pattern; model; person or thing that embodies a standard of perfection
Q5 v. cook
(a) to prepare food by heating; to falsify account records
(b) to provide financial assistance
(c) to ship; to send abroad; to sell goods and products overseas
(d) to invent; to create; to contrive; to think up
Q6 adj. serious
(a) solemn; acute; critical; requiring much consideration; humorless; grim
(b) excellent; wonderful; splendid; magnificent
(c) of general expenses; general
(d) inexpensive; cheap; of or relating to a financial plan
Q7 n. capability
(a) dossier for storing papers; directory
(b) one of the four quarters of the year (winter, spring, summer, autumn)
(c) ability; skill; trait; characteristic; quality
(d) luggage; cargo; things to take on a trip; equipment
Q8 v. participate
(a) to prepare food by heating; to falsify account records
(b) to be involved; to join in
(c) to have different opinions; to differ
(d) to advance beyond proper limits; to infringe
Q9 adj. capital

Q4 n. affinity
(a) method of dealing with a certain subject; draft of a treaty
(b) attraction; closeness; liking; likeness
(c) person or thing that is the same
(d) pertaining to a value that is approximately in the middle of a series of values
Q5 n. site
(a) license to market a company's goods or services; business which has been granted a license
(b) product of the division of one number by another; part of a whole; segment; fragment; quotient
(c) schedule; agenda; written order of events
(d) place; location; area
Q6 n. cutback
(a) nature; disposition; attitude; figure; person; statement of qualities
(b) limitation; limit
(c) beginning phase of a project; babyhood
(d) reduction; curtailing; decrease
Q7 n. admission
(a) agreement; settlement; harmony
(b) entrance; permission to enter; confession
(c) act of receiving; approval; state of believing in something
(d) educational meeting; training session
Q8 n. fix
(a) sample; model; form; mold; decorative design
(b) something created separately for the purpose of being added to or placed inside (a book, newspaper, etc.)
(c) person whose job it is to supervise and examine; police officer ranking below a superintendent
(d) embarrassing situation; predicament; location; position (i.e. of a ship or individual)
Q9 n. cast
(a) throw; team of actors; squint (of the eye)
(b) elected official acting as executive head of a town or city
(c) practice; training; furrow; seeding machine; row of seeds in a furrow
(d) tax; charge; levy; grievous price

(d) describing an asset or item which can easily be sold or transferred
Q5 n. beverage
(a) drink; refreshment
(b) pointing out of similarities and differences; similarity; likeness
(c) truthfulness; something that is a truth
(d) buyer; client
Q6 n. assignment
(a) task; duty; responsibility; role; obligation
(b) set way of saying or doing something; principle; pattern
(c) teaching; direction; guidance; training; education; information
(d) opposite; contrary; back side; rear; setback; defeat
Q7 n. worry
(a) backlash
(b) small machine that makes computations
(c) concern; fear; misfortune; distress
(d) person who runs a company; director; administrator; supervisor
Q8 v. practice
(a) to duplicate; to imitate
(b) to send; to direct; to ascribe to; to relate to; to apply to; to call attention to
(c) to deliver a discourse before an audience; to reprimand tediously
(d) to exercise; to train; to drill
Q9 adj. viable
(a) talented; skilled; having great natural ability
(b) capable of living; having a reasonable chance of succeeding; practical
(c) lower; under
(d) well; not sick; fit; sound
Q10 v. index
(a) to give to for safekeeping; to empower someone with a responsibility or duty
(b) to suggest; to tender; to bid; to propose a price; to present
(c) to register; to adjust prices or salaries in accordance with changes in economic indicators

(d) truthfulness; something that is a truth
Q6 n. manager
(a) person who runs a company; director; administrator; supervisor
(b) person living at about the same time as another person
(c) person or thing that is the same
(d) plan; aim; goal; purpose
Q7 n. removal
(a) ruin; desolation; annihilation
(b) exchange; trade
(c) connection; association; closeness
(d) act of shedding; act of taking away; elimination; ejection; dismissal
Q8 n. central
(a) model; pattern; something which serves as an illustration
(b) performance; operation; attainment; mission; success
(c) act of looking over carefully and critically; official examination; audit; review
(d) telephone exchange; operator; main bureau or office
Q9 n. line
(a) reform; repair; act of repairing; state of healing or improvement
(b) long thin mark; row; border; domain; tactic
(c) politeness; good manners; cordiality; civility
(d) grouping symbols ()
Q10 n. paradigm
(a) tool for cutting consisting of a toothed blade; saying; maxim; proverb
(b) lexicon; list of words and their definitions in alphabetical order
(c) one of the four quarters of the year (winter, spring, summer, autumn)
(d) model; ideal; mold; form; example; pattern
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(c) to be similar to; to be akin to; to look like; to have a similar appearance to
(d) to design; to plan (i.e. machinery, roads, etc.)
Q7 n. amortization
(a) gradual payment of debt; the reduction of the value of an asset
(b) suggestion; tender; plan; offer of marriage
(c) meeting or conference at which a specific topic is discussed
(d) place; position; situation; site; spot
Q8 n. import
(a) feigning; impersonation; false show; claim; assertion
(b) rapid multiplication; rapid reproduction; prosperity
(c) brining in of goods from another country; opposite of export; meaning; significance
(d) admiration; respect
Q9 n. resource
(a) state of not being at war; silence; quietness; tranquility
(b) car; vehicle; ride
(c) foods and other goods sold at a small supermarket or store
(d) supply; stock; means of accomplishing a goal; expedient
Q10 v. firm
(a) to solidify; to become solid; to stabilize; to become stable
(b) to exemplify; to clarify; to explain; to depict; to elucidate
(c) to channel; to centralize
(d) to refine; to improve; to complete; to make faultless
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Q1 n. patience
(a) creativity; resourcefulness; fabrication; falsehood
(b) trip in a vehicle; type of computer hardware; combined effort to accomplish a goal (i.e. fund raiser)

(b) piece of soft material which cushions; block of pages stacked together and connected on one side
(c) garbage; trash; waste
(d) section; piece; region; role; function; side in an agreement
Q8 n. expertise
(a) goal; aim; intention; objective
(b) person who does not belong to any political party
(c) gross revenues; total business done; rate of selling or producing
(d) proficiency; skill; specialist knowledge and information
Q9 n. proximity
(a) opportunity; occurrence, event; incident; reason; cause
(b) device made up of interconnected parts that work together to perform a given task or function
(c) act of strengthening; reward or punishment designed to encourage or discourage a particular response
(d) adjacency; nearness; closeness; vicinity
Q10 n. audit
(a) slope; incline; increase; ascent; raise in position or status; promotion; angry response
(b) examination of financial accounts; internal investigation
(c) conversation; speech; lecture; meeting
(d) prop; brace; economic assistance; upkeep; encouragement; aid
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Q1 v. reach
(a) to arrive; to obtain; to procure; to extend the arm outward
(b) to write a statement of purchases; to make a bill of sale
(c) to cap; to cork; to stop up; to block; to advertise
(d) to want; to command; to determine; to decide
Q2
v. target

(a) to set some distance apart
(b) to make resistant; to make impervious; to edit
(c) to pull; to drag
(d) to stop a vehicle; to slow down a vehicle
Q9 v. sense
(a) to separate; to be separated; to decrease; to become smaller
(b) to couple; to be part one of a match; to mate
(c) to arrange; to order; to systematize; to set up; to unite; to structure
(d) to feel; to perceive; to apprehend; to understand
Q10 v. regulate
(a) to crash; to meet head on; to come together with solid or direct impact
(b) to make level; to smooth; to balance
(c) to control; to govern; to manage; to adjust to a specific level or condition
(d) to sell; to trade or deal; to distribute; to promote
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Q1 n. building
(a) house; dwelling; structure; premises
(c) expansion; increase in size; magnification
(b) act of fixing; correction; act of mending
(d) heart of the matter; main point
Q2
n. perspective
(a) viewpoint; outlook; vista; view
(b) occurrence; occasion; example; illustration
(c) foundation; organization which provides a certain service or supports a particular cause
(d) group of ships, cars, trucks or other vehicles

(c) movement; journeying
(b) serenity; self-control; calmness; coolness
(d) stock; list of assets; act of checking stock
Q9 n. canvass
(a) vagueness; lack of clarity
(c) cessation; end; visit; obstacle; hindrance
(b) condition; influencing factor; situation
(d) examination; careful inspection; debate
Q10 n. benefit
(a) shipping of goods to other countries
(b) advantage; profit; aid; stipend
(c) back end; hindmost unit of an army (or fleet, etc.)
(d) range; journey; track; path; series; sequence
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Q1 v. refurbish
(a) to rule; to control; to be in charge; to be in authority
(b) to consider; to be of a particular heaviness; to burden
(c) to make new again; to renovate; to restore to good condition
(d) to sharpen; to provide with a border; to advance gradually or furtively
Q2
v. fix
(a) to feel; to perceive; to apprehend; to understand
(b) to submerge; to fall down below the surface (especially in water)
(c) to determine; to stabilize; to arrange; to repair; to prepare
(d) to dress; to put on clothes
Q3 n. interruption

(a) person who is an expert; person who is skilled
(b) inducement; act of convincing
(c) meeting or conference at which a specific topic is discussed
(d) word or phrase by which someone or something is called or identified; moniker
Q10 v. worry
(a) to protect; to secure; to vindicate
(b) to convey; to give; to bring; to distribute; to express
(c) to earn income; to make financial gains; to be of service; to be beneficial
(d) to be concerned; to harass; to advance through great effort
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Q1 n. mainframe
(a) financial assistance
(b) awareness; perception
(c) computer which can serve many users simultaneously
(d) height of something; altitude above sea or ground level; raising; lifting up; grandeur
Q2
n. tenure
(a) railing; hedge; ability to argue; person who sells stolen goods
(b) small room; piece of office furniture; office; part of a government
(c) meeting; assembly; term; semester
(d) strength; period; permanence
Q3 n. guideline
(a) instructions; manual; handbook; indication of acceptable conduct or procedure
(b) fulfillment; realization; attainment; achievement
(c) progress; modernization; promotion
(d) person or business that sells goods to final consumers

Q10 n. display
(a) discourse given before an audience; tedious reprimand; formal reproof
(b) presentation; show; screen; monitor; exposure; exhibition
(c) type of fuel; gasoline
(d) hyphen; drop; pinch; rush; sprint
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Q1 n. trespasser
(a) adjacency; nearness; closeness; vicinity
(b) one who damages a person or his property or rights
(c) opening; record; information or item in a book, dictionary, catalog, list, directory, etc.
(d) course or method of action; guidelines; position; standpoint; insurance contract
Q2 adj. flawless
(a) lively; vigorous; crucial; critical; necessary
(b) perfect; impeccable
(c) strong; solid; stable; fixed; immovable; determined
(d) experienced; knowledgeable (Slang)
Q3 v. exchange
(a) to advocate; to endorse; to speak well of; to advise; to suggest
(b) to give one thing in return for another; to replace one thing with another; to trade; to barter
(c) to feel; to sense; to distinguish; to discern; to see
(d) to rule; to control; to be in charge; to be in authority
Q4 v. carry
(a) to require; to compel; to force upon; to enforce; to institute
(b) to vindicate; to defend; to support; to excuse
(c) to transport; to continue; to bear
(d) to disregard; to overlook; to refuse to recognize; to reject

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