Online English Test

1) n. counterbalance

(a) contamination; desecration; dirtying; soiling; spoiling; destruction
(b) type of dessert; cake; baked dish consisting of a crust and filling
(c) slope; grade; slant
(d) equal weight or power acting in opposition

2) n. abuse

(a) misuse; maltreatment; corrupt practice; foul language
(b) person or business that sells goods to to final consumers; person or company that sells merchandise to end users (consumers)
(c) awareness; cognition; ability to perceive
(d) appraisal; estimation; assessment

3) n. voucher

(a) pact; contract; accord; consent; concurrence
(b) trainer; tutor; teacher; bus; railroad car; horse pulled carriage
(c) meaning; sense; importance; consequence; act of pointing out
(d) certificate that bears monetary value; coupon; receipt; authorizer; endorser

4) n. part-time

(a) system used to place one event in relation to another (such as past vs. present, yesterday vs. today); period; era; hour; rate
(b) cost for traveling (on a bus, train, etc.); person who pays to travel in a vehicle (bus, train, boat, ferry, etc.); meals; provisions; something offered or supplied
(c) misuse; maltreatment; corrupt practice; foul language
(d) stroke; blow; collision; success; popular event or production

5) n. pressure

(a) new member of a group; one who is newly enlisted or drafted into the armed forces
(b) formally or socially imposed standards of dress, especially in a company; the way employees of a company are dressed at work
(c) exertion of force; application of weight; weight; burden; encumbrance
(d) money paid for the use of property; property that is leased; act of leasing

6) n. influx

(a) representing something less strongly than what the facts would justify; statement expressing something in a restrained manner
(b) flowing in; inflow; inward flow; place where a stream flows into another body of water
(c) salesman; supplier; equipment salesman (for example in the field of computers, etc.); automatic machine for selling goods
(d) degree of excellence; characteristic; attribute; nature; character; excellence

7) n. secret

(a) rite; ritual; formality
(b) punishment; fine; punishment in the form of a financial payment
(c) public announcement or printed notice designed to attract attention
(d) information that is confidential or classified; mystery; unexplained phenomenon; method or procedure that is known only by a select group of people

8) n. study

(a) point at which something ends; edge; border; boundary; restriction; restraint
(b) official document; license; reference; attestation
(c) type; kind; character; manner; quality
(d) learning; field of learning; thorough investigation; report; analysis; room in which reading or studying is done

9) n. cushion

(a) pillow; soft padded object
(b) delivery; dispatch; conveyance
(c) a person who prepares food
(d) device for electronically transmitting written material; document sent by fax

10) n. integrity

(a) form; model; image; condition; fitness; mold
(b) honesty; uprightness; morality; wholeness; unity; unimpaired condition
(c) depot; wholesale store; large retail store
(d) principle; basis; essential