Vocabulary 14

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Questions 1-15.
1. If you watch something to see what will happen, you .......... on it.
a. put a look b. take a peek c. keep an eye d. over look
2. "Info" is an abbreviation for
a. in focus b. information c. in for me d. informal
3. If you "strike oil" you have made a/n ...
a. valuable discovery b. bad mistake c. good sale d. unlucky choice
4. In a "management buy-out", the management ..
a. buy their company b. sell their company c. hire good employees d. leave the company
5. A "highly-leveraged" company has many ...
a. engineers b. employees c. advantages d. debts
6. The difference between shares and what they earn is called the ..
a. effort vs price b. cost to return c. price/earnings ratio d. share/profit balance
7. If you buy the same shares as someone else, you are said to be .... their investment.
a. copyrighting b. shadowing c. reflecting d. stealing
8. A colloquial expression for £1000 is a...
a. tonne b. pony c. grand d. mill
9. If you pay with your own money, you pay from ....
a. the heart b. your nose c. your own pocket d. under the bed
10. A company's profits are shared among shareholders as ....
a. sharings b. dividends c. stockings d. cashback
11. If you pay more than the normal price for shares, you pay a/n .....
a. overhead b. top rate c. uppermost d. premium
12. Something which gives you a steady profit can be called a
a. good lemon b. nice little earner c. well-paid bet d. one-off return
13. If a company buys a business that does not want to be bought, this is called a ...
a. buy-back b. hard adoption c. poison pill d. hostile takeover
14. An investment which is not earning enough money is ...
a. a cheap deal b. going poor c. underperforming d. topped out
15. When the stockmarket is not going up or down, the market is ...
a. sloppy b. flat c. plain d. jittery

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