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