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TOEFL Vocab: Business And Money
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. To give an employee money or other things in exchange for the work he or she does
intrepid
prototype
compensate
dynamic
2. Honor and respect for being better than the average
exploit
affluence
hazardous
prestige
3. The value of one's share in an investment
subsidy
elite
equity
merchant
4. Money given by a government or other organization to support an activity
shuttle
proportionately
compensate
subsidy
5. To move someone to a higher position in a company
commodity
promote
distill
liability
6. To rent something for a long time (several months or years)
lease
net
prototype
merchant
7. To argue back and forth about a price
reward
acquire
haggle
assess
8. Fearless
tangible
privileged
intrepid
proportionately
9. Dangerous
prototype
equity
extract
hazardous
10. To take out
haggle
tangible
accumulate
extract
11. Full of energy
privileged
exploit
dynamic
accumulate
12. Control according to a set of rules
regulate
jointly
merit
per capita
13. Together with one or more other parties
decline
jointly
proportionately
luxury
14. Willing to work hard
industrious
equity
acquire
prestige
15. To protect
safeguard
entrepreneurial
lease
privileged
16. Able to create business opportunities from a wide variety of circumstances
entrepreneurial
accumulate
safeguard
acquire
17. A person who makes a living by selling things
nobility
incentive
merchant
enterprising
18. A thing that can be bought and sold - such as grain - oil - or wood
entrepreneurial
compensate
commodity
merit
19. To make a person or group poor
acquire
compensate
proprietor
impoverish
20. People with low-paying (often unskilled) jobs who are not poor but who are not securely in the middle class
working class
marginal
affluence
commodity
21. To move back and forth often between two places
impoverish
per capita
shuttle
decline
22. A possible benefit that motivates a person to do a certain thing
hazardous
incentive
extract
acquire
23. To give out different amounts for different purposes
regulate
lease
proportionately
allocate
24. Not very significant or effective
haggle
jointly
impoverish
marginal
25. After all costs have been subtracted from an amount
elite
merit
inflation
net
26. To get something - usually something with special value or meaning
prestige
asset
acquire
merchant
27. To do very well in one's business or personal life
regulate
haggle
prosper
elite
28. To quit one's job
entrepreneurial
resign
proprietor
merit
29. The first one made of a machine or system
hazardous
prototype
distill
acquire
30. To remove one liquid from a mixture of liquids by boiling; to get something valuable from a confusing mix of ideas
per capita
shuttle
distill
prototype
31. A possession that has positive value
per capita
asset
shuttle
incentive
32. Wealth and the style of life that goes with it
affluence
liability
lease
jointly
33. A group of socially prominent people with special titles given by a king or queen - such as 'duke' or 'countess'
nobility
exploit
accumulate
impoverish
34. To estimate the value of something
enterprising
merchant
assess
proportionately
35. Creative in thinking of ways to make money
resign
jointly
enterprising
prototype
36. To take advantage of; to treat inconsiderately in order to profit
exploit
promote
hazardous
working class
37. A situation in which prices for many items rise quite fast
decline
reward
inflation
compensate
38. Value; success based on one's work - not on luck
haggle
sole
affluence
merit
39. Owner - usually of a business or a building
proprietor
marginal
industrious
working class
40. In an amount appropriate to each of several recipients
dynamic
prestige
proportionately
affluence
41. Extreme comfort - beyond what anyone needs
accumulate
luxury
distill
prototype
42. For each person
per capita
tangible
compensate
luxury
43. To build up a large amount of something
entrepreneurial
accumulate
jointly
marginal
44. Obviously real because it can be seen - touched - or otherwise observed
prototype
hazardous
affluence
tangible
45. Only
sole
equity
industrious
extract
46. Legal responsibility for harming a person or property; a disadvantage
enterprising
hazardous
liability
marginal
47. Something one gets for having done well
merchant
reward
per capita
lease
48. Belonging to a special - honored group
allocate
elite
working class
compensate
49. To decrease in power or amount
assess
sole
decline
proportionately
50. Able to enjoy special advantages because of one's position ( usually because of being born into a wealthy or powerful family)
privileged
hazardous
elite
intrepid