Exercise 9. Vocabulary. Part I

Look at the sentences, and then choose the best option to complete the sentences by clicking on the choices below. When you have finished, click on "answers" at the bottom of the page.

Questions 1-15.
1. A request for a job is called a job -
a. appointment b. application c. appliance d. appeal
2. A job in a company can be called a -
a. position b. site c. postponement d. proposition
3. Keeping order and punishing when necessary is part of -
a. sadism b. control-freaking c. discipline d. rigour
4. If you are told that something will happen this is your -
a. noticing b. notation c. notary d. notification
5. All the different products that a company makes or sells are its product -
a. stockpile b. facilities c. goods d. range
6. If you put something in a letter with the envelope, you ... it. -
a. encrypt b. encase c. enclose d. encapsulate
7. If something does not work properly it is -
a. flotsam b. erroneous c. faulty d. erring
8. Making sure that products are of a high standard is the job of -
a. standardization b. quality control c. shop stewards d. trade marks
9. Something which is not good enough is -
a. sub-standard b. substantial c. substituted d. sub-quality
10. Something which has happened is a/an -
a. eventual b. history c. incident d. take place
11. An annual celebration is called an -
a. anniversary b. adversary c. annulment d. anterior event
12. If you pay everything you owe you pay -
a. at most. b. sub-total c. for keeps d. in full
13. Something that is not enough is -
a. inadvertent b. insufficient c. inadmissable d. insalutary
14. A private company in Britian is shown by the initials -
a. PBC b. inc. c. .com d. plc
15. If you try as hard as you can, you try your -
a. uttermost b. extremity c. harvest d. best beware

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