TOEIC 6/5

LC

  • LCの教材をやるのは、ちょうど一週間ぶりのような気がする。
  • Part3分まで終わったので、Part4のExpansion Training Level1(日本語編)に取りかかる。
  • lead nowhere
  • take effect
  • lieu: instead of
    • in lieu of
  • chauffeur: someone who's job is to drive a car for someone else
  • promotion <-> horizontal movement
  • overhead: especially BrE money spend regularly on rent, insurance, electricity, and other things that are needed to keep a business operating
    • へーへーへー
    • 当たり前のように使っている単語に足すくわれることがあるからこわいや。特にIT方面で使われる単語は疑ってかかるようにしよう。
  • foresee: to know that something is going to happen before it actually happens
  • insensitive: not noticing other people's feelings, and not realizing when they are upset or when something that you do will upset them
    • One insensitive official insisted on seeing her husband's death certificate.
  • insensible: not knowing about something that could happen to you
    • She reminded insensible of the dangers that by ahead.
  • Me, too <-> Me, neither.
  • lingering: slow to finish or disappear
    • linngering doubts about the need for reform
    • a lingering death: slow and painful death
    • lingering shower
  • prevail: if a belief, custom etc prevails, it exist among a group of people
    • Belief in magic still prevails in some rural part of the country.
    • Cooler than normal temperature will prevail in the south plains.
  • cotton crops
  • pesticide: a chemical substance used to kill insects and small animals that destroy crops.
  • defoliant: a chemical substance used on plants to make their leaves drop off
  • lure: to pursuade someone to do something, especially something wrong, by promissing them something they want
    • I thingk his trying to lure you away from Jerry.
  • toxic: containing poison, or caused by pisonous substances
    • toxic fumes
      • fumes: strong-smelling gas or smoke that is unpleasant to breathe in