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