Online English Test

1) n. consumer

(a) small vegetable growth; factory; equipment; agent who has been assigned to secretly infiltrate a location (Slang)
(b) staff; work force; team; crew
(c) tool; instrument; piece of equipment
(d) buyer; client

2) n. technology

(a) sciences of the industrial arts; applied sciences; technical methods and processes
(b) process of turning money into profit
(c) action; step; unit of size or capacity; criterion; amount; degree; extent; meter
(d) introduction; foreword; opening statement

3) n. delay

(a) postponement; hindrance; hold-up; stopping; lingering
(b) official institution; agency; power; control; jurisdiction
(c) planning and execution; management of a business or other operation; department of a company which oversees and maintains material and other recourses
(d) plan; sketch; model; layout; structure

4) n. investment

(a) wash basin; sewer; drain; cesspool; place where criminals gather; device that disposes of excess energy within an electrical circuit (Electronics); receiver; device that receives data or heat (Computers)
(b) expenditure of money or effort for future benefits; authorization
(c) metal strand; cord; line; string; telegraph cable
(d) high ranking military officer

5) n. inference

(a) choice; option
(b) person who falls prey (to an attack, deception, etc.)
(c) copy; photocopy; exact replica; reproduction
(d) act of deriving; speculation; drawing of a conclusion

6) n. opposite

(a) function; utilization; benefit; advantage; consumption; occasion or need to use; ability to use; practice of using
(b) enlargement; increase; spread; development
(c) sign; indication; symbol; grade; stain; trace; scar; target; goal; standard of achievement
(d) contrast; something contrary

7) n. leave

(a) vacation; time off; authorization to do something; permission to be absent (from work, etc.); parting; departure; farewell
(b) principal pipe or duct in a system; chief part of something; strenght or force; high sea
(c) flowing in; inflow; inward flow; place where a stream flows into another body of water
(d) safeguard; something used to avert an unwanted situation

8) n. pattern

(a) quality; factor; characteristic; feature; adjective (grammar)
(b) sample; model; ideal; form; mold; shape; configuration; decorative design
(c) part of a chair; rear part of the human body
(d) ability; aptitude; proficiency; expertise; craft or trade that requires special training

9) n. kind

(a) structure built mainly of glass in which plants are cultivated out of season; hothouse; glasshouse; conservatory
(b) type; sort; class; group of things which are classed together because of their similarities
(c) money which is not generating profit
(d) truthfulness; something that is a truth

10) n. particular

(a) detail; individual characteristic; item; article; specific proposition (Logic)
(b) punctuation mark indicating a break in a sentence; hyphen; bit; drop; pinch; rush; sprint; onset; race; vigor; spirit
(c) state of not being a derivative of anything else
(d) effort; nuisance