Online English Test

1) n. appointment

(a) synopsis; general survey; introduction
(b) end; conclusion; last edition of a newspaper
(c) roundish stain; speck; place; awkward or difficult situation; predicament; specific location; area; stain on one's reputation; blemish; pimple (British); spotlight
(d) official date, meeting; interview; nomination

2) n. willingness

(a) range; extent; sphere; area; space; expanse; opportunity or room for action and thought
(b) period of one hundred years
(c) readiness; agreeableness; state or condition of being willing
(d) crop; harvest; return; produce; income; profit

3) n. research

(a) examination; money order; payment order; pausing; stopping; restaurant bill
(b) comprehensive inquiry; extensive investigation of a subject
(c) greater number or part; number greater than half of the total
(d) employees working in an organization; personnel; crew; team; stick; rod; pole; group of 5 horizontal lines and the 4 spaces between them on which music is written

4) n. customs

(a) money paid for postal services; fee for sending letters or packages by mail
(b) plateau, area of level ground; prairie; savanna
(c) list of subjects or other information arranged in alphabetical order; indicator; sign; arrangement of data; price index; number which indicates changes in prices
(d) place where goods and baggage are examined on entering a country; government department responsible for collecting taxes on imports

5) n. undercut

(a) commercial transaction in which one party buys an item from another party; instance of offering goods at a reduced price; demand for merchandise; auction
(b) type of beef tenderloin; type of cavity with a broad base (Dentistry)
(c) process of turning money into profit
(d) dividend; perk; monetary gift

6) n. spot

(a) routine; course of action; advance; summons to court; program which uses some of a multitasking computer's system resources (Computers); projecting part in an organism
(b) reduced price; sale on particular items; extra newspaper edition; something that is used for a particular purpose or occasion; television program focusing on a particular topic
(c) roundish stain; speck; place; awkward or difficult situation; predicament; specific location; area; stain on one's reputation; blemish; pimple (British); spotlight
(d) difficult situation; invitation to engage in a contest; something which tests ones's ability to handle difficult tasks

7) n. extract

(a) crop; harvest; return; produce; income; profit
(b) distant part of the sea visible from the shore; remote place far from the shore; high seas
(c) place where grain is stored; granary; storehouse; collection; store
(d) substance obtained from a plant; essence; text paragraph; passage; excerpt; quotation (from a text)

8) n. span

(a) theme; subject of conversation
(b) length; distance; duration; period of time; section between two bridge supports; wing span; distance between the tip of an outstretched thumb and little finger; unit of length equal to the space between thumb and little finger
(c) side of a hill; incline; upward or downward slant; degree to which a surface deviates from the vertical
(d) nomenclature; specific vocabulary

9) n. dispatch

(a) educational meeting devoted to a particular topic; advanced academic course requiring a large amount of independent research; meeting of an advanced academic course which requires a large amount of independent research
(b) aim; purpose, goal; objective case (Grammar)
(c) sending off; shipment; message; communication; promptness
(d) small retail store; studio; workshop; room or building in which skilled manual work is done; business; office; room in a school equipped to train students in the industrial arts

10) n. ceremony

(a) rite; ritual; formality
(b) plan; idea; thought; structure; system
(c) link; connection; touch; interface
(d) display; show; public presentation of work or skills; trade fair