Online English Test

1) n. award

(a) prize; grant; arbitration
(b) being physically present; act of accompanying or serving
(c) creator; craftsman; skilled workman
(d) newspaper that is published 5 to 7 times a week

2) n. compensation

(a) rotatable disk on a telephone; face upon which measurements are registered through the use of a pointer (as on a watch, meter, etc.)
(b) repayment; something done to make up for (a loss, deficiency or fault)
(c) middleman; agent who buys and sells property or shares etc. for other people
(d) picture; snapshot; image

3) n. hallmark

(a) this being the case; since (used in formal documents)
(b) tool; gadget; device; appartus
(c) official stamp ensuring that a gold or silver item meets a certain standard of quality; identifying characteristic
(d) not many; some; severar; small number of

4) n. skirting

(a) act of going around; avoidance; evasion
(b) pathfinder; forerunner; person who paves the way; member of a military engineering corps
(c) height of something; altitude above sea or ground level; rasing; lifting up; grandeur
(d) opportunity; occurrence, event; incident; reason; cause; justification

5) n. ado

(a) open public area in a city or town; park; square
(b) commotion; flurry; excitement
(c) banknoted printed by a government as legal tender which is not redeemable and which lacks economic value
(d) something of great worth

6) n. privacy

(a) doubtfulness
(b) seclusion, solitude, reclusion; state of being private, secrecy, confidentiality; freedom from harassment or disturbance
(c) device; system; machine; gadget; appliance
(d) rule enacted by a community or country; body of rules by which order and justice is maintained; study of laws; legal profession; custom; principle; convention

7) n. note

(a) short written reminder; memo; brief informal letter; official message; notice; comment; musical sound; single key; sign of emotion; hint; trace; paper currency; bill of money
(b) transgression; desecration; attack or disruption; rape
(c) act of pretending; counterfeit; imitation of the operation or features of one system using an other system (i.e. computer simulation)
(d) a situation in which the imports of a country from the USA are larger than their exports to the USA

8) n. signification

(a) forward movement; progress; modernization; promotion; amount or payment of money given before it is due
(b) meaning; sense; importance; consequence; act of pointing out
(c) meeting at which a person is evaluated through questioning (as for a job); meeting at which information is gathered by a report er; press conference
(d) entrance; permission to enter; confession

9) n. airport

(a) responsibility; duty; burden; impediment; blame
(b) boat for crossing a body of water; shuttle; ferryboat
(c) pertaining to a value that is approximately in the middle of a series of values
(d) place used by planes for takeoff and landing

10) n. crew

(a) viewpoint, opinion; siting; locus; location; place; post, job; condition; situation; pose; stance; status of commitments on the market (Finance and Investment)
(b) tube; tube used for smoking tobacco; windpipe; trachea; flute; whistle; whistling sound; toot; character which instructs an operating system to direct output of one program to the input of another program (Computers)
(c) growth; expansion; addition; enlargement; escalation; reproduction
(d) group of people working together; team