Sharpening up Your Reading and Comprehension Skills by Austin Mitchell - HTML preview

Words and their meanings:

Accountant(N)-A person who keeps and inspects financial accounts

Department(N)-One division of a large organization or shop

Director(N)-A person who is in charge of a business

Merchant(N)-A person involved in trading goods or money

Cooperate(V)-To work together for a special purpose or outcome, Cooperation(N)

Opportunity(N)-A good chance to do something

Review(V)-An inspection or survey

Perform(V)-To do something in front of an audience,

Performance(N)

Advise(V)To give advice

Standard(N)-A level or quality of achievement

Recommend(V)-To speak well of a person or thing, Recommendation(N)

Interview(V)-To ask a person who is seeking a job a series of questions

Result(N)-Something that happened because of something else

Deadline(N)-A time or day by which something must be done

Finalize(V)-To make a final and certain decision about something

Impress(V)-To cause someone to admire or respect you because of what you’ve done

Remind(V)-To make someone aware of something they had forgotten

Prepare(V)-To make ready for use

Evaluation(V)-To judge or value the importance of someone or someone

Hardworking(Adj.)To work with energy and commitment

Shortcoming(N)-A fault or failure to meet a certain standard

Identify(V)-Establish or indicate who or what someone or something realy is

Employee(N)-A person employed for wages or a salary

Roster(N)-A list or plan showing turns of duty or leave for individuals or groups in an organization

Schedule(N)-A plan for carrying out a process or proceedings, giving out a list of individual events or time

Calculate(V)-To determine the amount or number of something mathematically

Circulate(V)-To go around or through something

Fidgeting(V)-Making small movements of the hands and feet through nervousness

Predecessor(N)-A person who held a job or post before the present holder

Colleague(N)-A person with whom one works in an office, profession or business

Conference(N)-A formal meeting of people with shared interest

Report(N)-Giving a spoken or written account of something one has done, heard or investigated

Summon(V)-To call, notify, order someone to appear in a special place, eg. A court of law

Disbelief(N)-Inability or refusal to accept that something is true or real

Informal(Adj.)-Having a relaxed or unofficial syle, manner or nature

Application(N)-A formal request to be considered for a position

Satisfied(Adj.)- Contented, pleased, happy

Replace(V)-To take the place of somebody

Heist(N)-A robbery, a crime in which valuable things are taken

Company(N)-A commercial business

Suspicious(Adv.)-Distrusting someone or something

Dismissal(V)-The act of ordering or allowing someone to leave a job

Associate(N)-A partner or a companion in a business

Fraudulent(Adj.)-Obtaining goods or money by deceptive or dishonest means