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