2061 ENRICHING VOCABULARY - BUSINESS COMMUNICATION 1 / 18 Which of the following is not a German Abbreviation? (a) S.d. (b) WWE (c) P.S. (d) N.N. 2 / 18 Which of the following is not a Latin Abbreviation? (a) vs. (b) a.v. (c) Bez (d) i.a. 3 / 18 Which of the following is not a French Abbreviation? (a) Lit (b) Orig (c) U.S. (d) N.B. 4 / 18 Which is not a proverb: (a) Sweet are the uses of adversity (b) to scatter to the winds (c) A rose would smell as sweet by any other name (d) A closed mouth catches no flies 5 / 18 What does the idiom mean “To scatter to the winds” (a) To waste (b) Prove of something (c) To prejudice another person (d) To deteriorate badly 6 / 18 Which word explains the following sentence “To search thoroughly”. (a) Vandal (b) Genocide (c) Ransack (d) Amnesty 7 / 18 Which word explains the following group of words “Coming at the right time”. (a) Opportune (b) Benefactor (c) Quisling (d) Panacea 8 / 18 Find out the antonym of the word “Meager” (a) Empty (b) Plentiful (c) Both (a) or (b) (d) None of the above 9 / 18 To transform into a purer or idealized form means. (a) Sublimate (b) Ransack (c) Vandal (d) Revive 10 / 18 The Latin word “bonafide” means: (a) Strange (b) Good faith (c) Colleague (d) None of the above 11 / 18 BCC stands for: (a) Blind copy carbon (b) Before carbon copy (c) Blind carbon copy (d) Before copy carbon 12 / 18 VAT stands for: (a) Value Added Tax (b) Value Addition Tax (c) Value Abstract Tax (d) Value Added Text 13 / 18 Alma mater means: (a) A school or college which one has to attend (b) A public apology (c) Preliminary matter (d) None of the above 14 / 18 The proverb “To rob peter to, pay paul” means: (a) Things take time to complete and to mature (b) To harm one person in order to benefit the other (c) You judge a man’s worth by his clothes (d) A man is judged by sort of friends he has. 15 / 18 WWW stands for: (a) World wide web (b) Wide word web (c) Web world wide (d) None of the above. 16 / 18 Agnostic means: (a) One who perform gymnastic frets (b) The action of attacking with provocation (c) Science of production, transmission (d) None of the above. 17 / 18 There are several pairs or group of words that are similar but are different in spelling and meaning. (a) Antonyms (b) Homonyms (c) Synonyms (d) None of the above. 18 / 18 An ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning is : (a) Jargon (b) Pedantry (c) Verbosity (d) Vocabulary. Your score is LinkedIn Facebook Twitter VKontakte
