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level: Level 1 of Work and jobs

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level questions: Level 1 of Work and jobs

Question	Answer
to emphasize a particular feature of something or to make something more noticeable	ACCENTUATE
the act or process of accepting someone as a patient at a hospital or as a student at a school, college, etc.	ADMISSION
relating to behaviour between people that is pleasant and friendly, often despite a difficult situation	AMICABLE
someone who has agreed to work for a skilled person for a particular period of time and often for low payment, in order to learn that person's skills	APPRENTICE
a test to find out if someone has a natural ability for a particular type of work	APTITUDE TEST
a line of machines and workers in a factory that a product moves along while it is being built or produced. Each machine or worker performs a particular job that must be finished before the product moves to the next position in the line	ASSEMBLY LINE
to prevent something bad from happening	AVERT
a piece of ground used for growing plants outside	BED
the tower of a church where bells are hung	BELFRY
an employee who continues to work during a strike	BLACKLEG
a mark on something that spoils its appearance	BLEMISH
relating to people who do physical work rather than mental work, and who usually do not work in an office	BLUE-COLLAR
a man	CHAP
treating someone as if you are more important or more intelligent than them	CONDESCENDING
a group of people who have come together in a religious building for worship and prayer	CONGREGATION
a person or thing that has the same purpose as another one in a different place or organization	COUNTERPART
to announce something clearly, firmly, publicly, or officially	DECLARE
to lower someone or something in rank or position	DEMOTE
to move away from the main subject you are writing or talking about and to write or talk about something else	DIGRESS
careful and using a lot of effort	DILIGENT
to allow someone officially to leave somewhere, especially a hospital or a law court	DISCHARGE
an argument or disagreement, especially an official one between, for example, workers and employers or two countries with a common border	DISPUTE
not using a lot of fuel, money, etc.	ECONOMICAL
to send something in the same envelope or parcel as something else	ENCLOSE
to imagine or expect something to happen, appear, etc. in a particular way	ENVISION
a person who is sent or kept away from their own country, etc.	EXILE
to produce from the inside and spread out slowly	EXUDE
a strong ability, something that a person can do well	FORTE
something that you get for working, in addition to your pay, that is not in the form of money	FRINGE BENEFIT
someone who is very energetic, determined to be successful, and able to deal with new or difficult situations easily	GO-GETTER
an amount of money given especially by the government to a person or organization for a special purpose	GRANT
a large, round stone that is turned by a machine and is used to make tools sharper or sharp edges smooth	GRINDSTONE
Someone with a hands-on way of doing things becomes closely involved in managing and organizing things and in making decisions	HANDS-ON
someone who has a lot of ability and a strong wish to be successful and is therefore expected to achieve a lot	HIGH-FLIER
a plan to deceive someone, such as telling the police there is a bomb somewhere when there is not one, or a trick	HOAX
something that encourages a person to do something	INCENTIVE
unusual or different from what is around or from what is generally happening	INCONGRUOUS
not skilled or effective	INEPT
extremely small	INFINITESIMAL
the person who answers the questions during an interview	INTERVIEWEE
a person who thinks that they know much more than other people	KNOW-IT-ALL
to stop employing someone, usually because there is no work for them to do	LAY SOMEONE OFF
living for a long time	LONGEVITY
(especially of a business, job, or activity) producing a lot of money	LUCRATIVE
relating to a manager or management	MANAGERIAL
having or showing no mercy	MERCILESS
very careful and with great attention to every detail	METICULOUS
the act of working at an extra job, especially without telling your main employer	MOONLIGHTING
very ordinary and therefore not interesting	MUNDANE
an amount of money that has been saved or kept for a special purpose	NEST EGG
information or a warning given about something that is going to happen in the future	NOTICE
an area of land where fruit trees (but not orange trees or other citrus trees) are grown	ORCHARD
a member of a particular parish under the care of a priest, especially one who often goes to its church	PARISHIONER
not easily satisfied and demanding that close attention should be given to every detail	PARTICULAR
speaking or behaving towards someone as if they are stupid or not important	PATRONIZING
an advantage or something extra, such as money or goods, that you are given because of your job	PERK
a person who is in charge of the department that deals with the employment, training, support, records, etc. of a company's employees	PERSONNEL MANAGER
a long wooden seat with a high back, on which a row of people sit in a church	PEW
a group of workers acting as pickets	PICKET LINE
central and important	PIVOTAL
a person whose job is to supply and connect or repair water pipes, baths, toilets, etc.	PLUMBER
A person who is presumptuous shows little respect for others by doing things they have no right to do	PRESUMPTUOUS
to keep delaying something that must be done, often because it is unpleasant or boring	PROCRASTINATE
skilled and experienced	PROFICIENT
to cut off branches from a tree, bush, or plant, especially so that it will grow better in the future	PRUNE
a raised place in a church, with steps leading up to it, from which the priest or minister speaks to the people during a religious ceremony	PULPIT
to use a rake to collect leaves	RAKE
a place where taxis wait for passengers	RANK
a way of life in modern society, in which people compete with each other for power and money	RAT RACE
a situation in which someone loses their job because their employer does not need them	REDUNDANCY
a person who knows you and who is willing to describe and, usually, praise you, in order to support you when you are trying to get a job, etc.	REFEREE
a feeling of anger because you have been forced to accept something that you do not like	RESENTMENT
to give up a job or position by telling your employer that you are leaving	RESIGN
a short written description of your education, qualifications, previous jobs, and sometimes also your personal interests, that you send to an employer when you are trying to get a job	RESUME
a person who has stopped working	RETIREE
the income that a government or company receives regularly	REVENUE
a period of time when college or university teachers are allowed to stop their usual work in order to study or travel, usually while continuing to be paid	SABBATICAL
to remove someone from a job, usually because they have done something wrong or badly, or sometimes as a way of saving the cost of employing them	SACK
a story or piece of news discovered and published by one newspaper before all the others	SCOOP
to examine something very carefully in order to discover information	SCRUTINIZE
a woman whose job is sewing and making clothes	SEAMSTRESS
a period of time when an employee is sent to work somewhere else, to increase the number of workers , to replace other workers, or to exchange experience or skills	SECONDMENT
language or behaviour that is intended to persuade other people to oppose their government	SEDITION
to put someone or something on a list of people who have been judged the most suitable for a job or prize, made from a longer list of people originally considered	SHORT-LIST
money given by an employer to someone who cannot work because of illness	SICK PAY
having the abilities needed to do an activity or job well	SKILLED
too pleased or satisfied about something you have achieved or something you know	SMUG
to put seeds in or on the ground so that plants will grow	SOW
to leave a mark on something that is difficult to remove	STAIN
to say exactly how something must be or must be done	STIPULATE
to start thinking or talking about a different subject from the one you should be giving attention to	STRAY
to refuse to continue working because of an argument with an employer about working conditions, pay levels, or job losses	STRIKE
in a way that expresses what needs to be said clearly and without unnecessary words	SUCCINCTLY
(a plan showing) the subjects or books to be studied in a particular course, especially a course that leads to an exam	SYLLABUS
to work as a temp	TEMP
detailed and careful	THOROUGH
growing, developing, or being successful	THRIVING
a machine which records sales in a shop, and in which money is kept	TILL
to get rid of or remove something	TOSS STH OUT
the surface layer of land on which grass is growing, consisting of the grass and the soil in which its roots grow, or a piece of this that is cut from the ground and is usually rectangular	TURF
Unctuous people or behaviour expresses too much praise, interest, friendliness, etc., in a way that is false and unpleasant	UNCTUOUS
to show someone where they should go, or to make someone go where you want them to go	USHER
if a job is vacant, someone needs to be employed to do it	VACANT
strength, energy, or enthusiasm	VIGOR
to remove wild plants from a place where they are not wanted	WEED
relating to people who work in offices, doing work that needs mental rather than physical effort	WHITE-COLLAR
(especially of something bad or too extreme) complete or affecting a lot of things, people, places, etc.	WHOLESALE
A threadbare excuse, argument, or idea is not strong and no longer persuades people because it is old or has been used too much	THREADBARE
a remark or statement that may be true but is boring and has no meaning because it has been said so many times before	PLATITUDE