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